Patrick A Mclaughlin

Biographic Data

ID4405215
NAMEPatrick A Mclaughlin
GIVEN NAMESPatrick A
FAMILY NAMEMclaughlin
SIGNATUREMCLAUGHLIN P A
AFFILIATIONSGeorge Mason University
ORCID0000-0002-1633-5409
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS16
TOTAL CITATIONS74
WORKS AS AUTHOR16
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX4

  • Re-evaluating the labor market effects of occupational licensing

    Open AccessChristos A Makridis, Patrick A MclaughlinARTICLEHumanities and Social Sciences…2025

    We present new data on regulatory restrictions across states and occupations between 2017 and 2022 to study the labor market effects of occupational licensing. First, we document three stylized facts: (a) regulatory restrictions across states and occupations have grown by nearly a factor of three since 2019, (b) increases in regulatory restrictions are concentrated in occupations with lower median hourly wages and higher within-occupation inequal…

  • On the Design of a Regulatory System

    Open AccessPatrick A Mclaughlin, Tyler RichardsARTICLEJournal of Benefit-Cost Analysis2025

    We briefly describe the structure of a regulatory system that alleviates many of the problems that arise when elected officials delegate rulemaking authority to government agencies. These problems include principal-agent issues, monopoly provision, information asymmetry, and tragedy of the commons. This structure better aligns the incentives of regulators with those of legislators and with the well-being of the public. We intend the solutions and…

  • Regulation, entrepreneurship, and dynamism

    Open AccessDustin Chambers, Patrick A Mclaughlin et al.ARTICLEEmpirical Economics2023

  • Three Misconceptions about Federal Regulation

    Open AccessPatrick A Mclaughlin, Casey B MulliganARTICLEJournal of Benefit-Cost Analysis2022References: 3

    Three common misconceptions persist about federal regulations. The first misconception is that most new regulations concern the environment, but in fact, only a small minority of regulatory flows are environmental. The second misconception is that regulators offer reasonable justifications and quantitative evidence for the majority of regulations. However, quantitative estimates rarely appear in published rules, negating the impression given by e…

  • Industry size and regulation

    Open AccessMarc T Law, Patrick A MclaughlinARTICLEPublic Choice2022Cited by: 1References: 16

  • The political economy of Australian regulatory reform

    Open AccessDarcy W E Allen, Chris Berg et al.ARTICLEAustralian Journal of Public…2020References: 16

    The problem of regulatory accumulation has increasingly been recognised as a policy problem in its own right. Governments have then devised and implemented regulatory reform policies that directly seek to ameliorate the burdens of regulatory accumulation (e.g. red tape reduction targets). In this paper we examine regulatory reform approaches in Australia through the lens of policy innovation. Our contributions are twofold. We first examine the ev…

  • Regulation, Entrepreneurship, and Dynamism

    Open AccessDustin Chambers, Patrick A Mclaughlin et al.ARTICLESSRN Electronic Journal2020Cited by: 1

  • Bootleggers, Baptists, and the risks of rent seeking

    Open AccessPatrick A Mclaughlin, Adam C Smith et al.ARTICLEConstitutional Political Economy2019Cited by: 4References: 11

  • RegData 2.2

    Open AccessPatrick A Mclaughlin, Oliver SherouseARTICLEPublic Choice2019Cited by: 5References: 15

  • Barriers to prosperity

    Open AccessDustin Chambers, Patrick A Mclaughlin et al.ARTICLEPublic Choice2019Cited by: 6References: 39

  • Regulation and poverty

    Open AccessDustin Chambers, Patrick A Mclaughlin et al.ARTICLEPublic Choice2019Cited by: 2References: 20

  • RegData

    Open AccessOmar Al-Ubaydli, Patrick A MclaughlinARTICLERegulation & Governance2015Cited by: 31References: 3

    We introduce RegData, formerly known as the Industry‐specific Regulatory Constraint Database. RegData annually quantifies federal regulations by industry and regulatory agency for all federal regulations from 1997–2012. The quantification of regulations at the industry level for all industries is without precedent. RegData measures regulation for industries at the two, three, and four‐digit levels of the North American Industry Classification Sys…

  • A hidden cost of war

    Open AccessChristopher J Coyne, Abigail R Hall et al.ARTICLEPublic Choice2014References: 14

  • Continuity, change, and priorities

    Open AccessJerry Ellig, Patrick A Mclaughlin et al.ARTICLERegulation & Governance2013Cited by: 21References: 17

    This paper compares the quality and use of regulatory analysis accompanying economically significant regulations proposed by US executive branch agencies in 2008, 2009, and 2010. We find that the quality of regulatory analysis is generally low, but varies widely. Budget regulations, which define how the federal government will spend money or collect revenues, have much lower‐quality analysis than other regulations. The Bush administration's “midn…

  • Regulators and Redskins

    Open AccessBentley Coffey, Patrick A Mclaughlin et al.ARTICLEPublic Choice2012Cited by: 2References: 8

  • The consequences of midnight regulations and other surges in regulatory activity

    Open AccessPatrick A MclaughlinARTICLEPublic Choice2011Cited by: 1References: 2