Luke Petach
Biographic Data
| ID | 5605574 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luke Petach |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luke |
| FAMILY NAME | Petach |
| SIGNATURE | PETACH L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Belmont University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4626-0986 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 14 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The End of Laissez-Faire in Classical-Marxian Models of Growth and Distribution
That Old Time Religion
This paper studies the effect of religion on the economic progress of Black Americans after Reconstruction. Southern religious institutions—particularly the Southern Baptist church—played a key role in the development of the Lost Cause mythology that helped legitimate the white supremacist political order which dominated the American South well into the 20th century. Using county-level data on religious adherence from the 1860 Census and data on …
The Rise of Guard Labor in the United States
We examine the rise of “Guard Labor”—defined as occupations devoted to labor extraction—at the commuting zone level in the United States. Between 1950 and 2017 the share of the labor force employed in guard labor increased from 19.5 percent to 29.4 percent. We explore the local labor market correlates of guard labor and validate several predictions of the labor discipline model, while extending the model to the context of contemporary racial capi…
Geography matters
Geographic expansion negatively impacts bank outcomes during recessions. While increases in average bank-to-branch distance for a given bank have a small positive impact on bank performance, increases in average bank-to-branch distance across all banks negatively impact performance as a result of aggregate spillovers. These findings support the existence of economically substantive geographic information asymmetries in banking, emphasizing the ne…
Absentee Ownership and Rental Affordability
The timber wars
Hate Crime and Human Capital
This paper examines the impact of hate crimes committed by White offenders on the educational attainment of Black individuals across United States commuting zones between 1990 and 2017. Using data on reported hate crimes from the Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reporting Program and data on educational attainment from the decennial Census and American Community Survey, we show an increase in per-capita hate crime in a commuting zone…
Natural amenities and Neo-Hobbesian local public finance
A Tullock Index for assessing the effectiveness of redistribution
Income stagnation and housing affordability in the United States
Between 1980 and 2016 the share of households in the bottom quintile of the income distribution that owned their own home declined by 10 percentage points. For the same households, the share of monthly income spent on rent increased from 28% in 1960 to over 42% in 2016. To asses the extent to which income stagnation is responsible for the decline in affordability, I use Census microdata to construct counterfactual simulations that capture the evo…
Differential Rates of Return and Racial Wealth Inequality
Local financialization, household debt, and the great recession
Local Labor Market Inequality in the Age of Mass Incarceration
We contend that the rise of mass incarceration in the United States can be framed through the lens of stratification economics, which views race- and class-based discrimination as a rational attempt on behalf of privileged groups to preserve their relative status and the material benefits which that status confers. Using the first (to our knowledge) local-level data set on incarceration rates by race, we explore the relationship between income in…
Climate Change, Innovation, and Economic Growth
William Nordhaus and Paul Romer shared the 2018 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for their work on long-run macroeconomic analysis. Nordhaus adapted the neoclassical growth model to study climate change, while Romer developed a model of innovation-based growth. The authors provide two distinct explanations of what drives growth, and employ contrasting methodologies for interpreting the results of their mathem…
Local financialization, household debt, and the great recession
The timber wars
Hate Crime and Human Capital
This paper examines the impact of hate crimes committed by White offenders on the educational attainment of Black individuals across United States commuting zones between 1990 and 2017. Using data on reported hate crimes from the Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reporting Program and data on educational attainment from the decennial Census and American Community Survey, we show an increase in per-capita hate crime in a commuting zone…
Differential Rates of Return and Racial Wealth Inequality
Local Labor Market Inequality in the Age of Mass Incarceration
We contend that the rise of mass incarceration in the United States can be framed through the lens of stratification economics, which views race- and class-based discrimination as a rational attempt on behalf of privileged groups to preserve their relative status and the material benefits which that status confers. Using the first (to our knowledge) local-level data set on incarceration rates by race, we explore the relationship between income in…
Climate Change, Innovation, and Economic Growth
William Nordhaus and Paul Romer shared the 2018 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for their work on long-run macroeconomic analysis. Nordhaus adapted the neoclassical growth model to study climate change, while Romer developed a model of innovation-based growth. The authors provide two distinct explanations of what drives growth, and employ contrasting methodologies for interpreting the results of their mathem…
Local financialization, household debt, and the great recession
Local Labor Market Inequality in the Age of Mass Incarceration
We contend that the rise of mass incarceration in the United States can be framed through the lens of stratification economics, which views race- and class-based discrimination as a rational attempt on behalf of privileged groups to preserve their relative status and the material benefits which that status confers. Using the first (to our knowledge) local-level data set on incarceration rates by race, we explore the relationship between income in…
Differential Rates of Return and Racial Wealth Inequality
A Tullock Index for assessing the effectiveness of redistribution
Income stagnation and housing affordability in the United States
Between 1980 and 2016 the share of households in the bottom quintile of the income distribution that owned their own home declined by 10 percentage points. For the same households, the share of monthly income spent on rent increased from 28% in 1960 to over 42% in 2016. To asses the extent to which income stagnation is responsible for the decline in affordability, I use Census microdata to construct counterfactual simulations that capture the evo…
Natural amenities and Neo-Hobbesian local public finance
The Rise of Guard Labor in the United States
We examine the rise of “Guard Labor”—defined as occupations devoted to labor extraction—at the commuting zone level in the United States. Between 1950 and 2017 the share of the labor force employed in guard labor increased from 19.5 percent to 29.4 percent. We explore the local labor market correlates of guard labor and validate several predictions of the labor discipline model, while extending the model to the context of contemporary racial capi…
Geography matters
Geographic expansion negatively impacts bank outcomes during recessions. While increases in average bank-to-branch distance for a given bank have a small positive impact on bank performance, increases in average bank-to-branch distance across all banks negatively impact performance as a result of aggregate spillovers. These findings support the existence of economically substantive geographic information asymmetries in banking, emphasizing the ne…
Absentee Ownership and Rental Affordability
The timber wars
Hate Crime and Human Capital
This paper examines the impact of hate crimes committed by White offenders on the educational attainment of Black individuals across United States commuting zones between 1990 and 2017. Using data on reported hate crimes from the Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reporting Program and data on educational attainment from the decennial Census and American Community Survey, we show an increase in per-capita hate crime in a commuting zone…
That Old Time Religion
This paper studies the effect of religion on the economic progress of Black Americans after Reconstruction. Southern religious institutions—particularly the Southern Baptist church—played a key role in the development of the Lost Cause mythology that helped legitimate the white supremacist political order which dominated the American South well into the 20th century. Using county-level data on religious adherence from the 1860 Census and data on …
The End of Laissez-Faire in Classical-Marxian Models of Growth and Distribution
Economics (12 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Labour economics (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Housing Market and Economics (5 works) · Inequality (5 works) · Macroeconomics (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Census (3 works)