Recent studies examining the relationship between legislative majorities and state budgets have presented mixed results. We provide new insight on this relationship by employing stochastic frontier analysis to model the maximum potential budgets that could be feasibly produced given a set of...

We examine a panel of divinity school enrollments to explore the motivations of prospective clergy considering post-graduate training in preparation for the ministry. Employing the fixed-effects within estimator allows us to see pecuniary motivations while controlling for the differences between...

This research investigates the relationship between public policy and firm deaths in the U.S. States. Policies that promote firm births may increase or decrease firm deaths. We use components of the Economic Freedom of North America index (EFNA) as a metric to evaluate the relationship between...