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Joshua C. Hall

Researcher at West Virginia University

Publications -  189
Citations -  2605

Joshua C. Hall is an academic researcher from West Virginia University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Economic freedom & Economic Freedom of the World. The author has an hindex of 20, co-authored 183 publications receiving 2309 citations. Previous affiliations of Joshua C. Hall include Bowling Green State University & Beloit College.

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International flows of people and institutional change

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used panel data from 149 countries to test the hypothesis of institutional change stemming from international travel and found that foreign travel does not affect political institutions, and limited evidence that international travel can be a determinant of institutional quality.
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Teaching the economic way of thinking through Op-eds

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors have concluded that requiring students to write an op-ed is the most conducive assignment for the development of the economic way of thinking and that the pedagogical capability of writing op-eds will encourage others to adopt the assignment into their classrooms.
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The political economy of local fracking bans

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine factors related to townships' choice to adopt fracking bans and document the importance of spatial dependence when analyzing fracking bans, finding education levels, the poverty rate, and veterans groups are associated with an increased probability of a township banning or putting a moratorium on fracking.
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The Seventeenth Amendment, Senate ideology and the growth of government

TL;DR: The authors investigated whether the mean ideology of the Senate and its winning policies experienced a structural change around the time of the Seventeenth Amendment and found no compelling evidence of a structural break at that time but do find some evidence for a change in the mid-to-late 1890s.
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New Empirical Estimates of Rent Seeking: An Update of Sobel and Garrett (2002)

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide measures of direct, indirect, and in-kind rent seeking for the year 2005 and extend their work by switching from counties to metropolitan and metropolitan statistical areas, which are defined as economically integrated counties.