D. Mark Anderson, Ph.D.

Working Papers

• Per Se Drugged Driving Laws and Traffic Fatalities, with Daniel Rees, 2012.  Revised and resubmitted at Journal of Legal Studies.  Also available as IZA Working Paper.
  

• High School Dropouts and Sexually Transmitted Infections, with Claus Portner, 2012.  Revised and resubmitted at Southern Economic Journal.
  

• Youth Depression and Future Criminal Behavior, with Resul Cesur and Erdal Tekin, 2012.  Revise and resubmit at Economic Inquiry.  Also available as IZA Working Paper and NBER Working Paper.
  

• High on Life? Medical Marijuana Laws and Suicide, with Daniel Rees and Joseph Sabia, 2012.  Under review.  Earlier version available as IZA Working Paper.
  

• Medical Marijuana Laws and Teen Marijuana Use, with Daniel Rees and Benjamin Hansen, 2012.  Under review.  Also available as IZA Working Paper.

  •  In public media:  CBS News, MSNBC News, Yahoo! News, Wall Street Journal

• Does Shortening the School Week Impact Student Performance?  Evidence from the Four-Day School Week, with Mary Beth Walker, 2012.  Revised and resubmitted at Education Finance and Policy.

  • In public media:  Atlantic Journal-Constitution
    

Publications

• In School and Out of Trouble?  The Minimum Dropout Age and Juvenile Crime.  Forthcoming at Review of Economics and Statistics.

• Medical Marijuana Laws, Traffic Fatalities, and Alcohol Consumption, with Benjamin Hansen and Daniel Rees.  Forthcoming at Journal of Law and Economics.  Earlier version available as IZA Working Paper.

  • In public media:  Popular Science, Wall Street Journal, ABC News,  Bloomberg TV
    

• The Minimum Dropout Age and Student Victimization, with Benjamin Hansen and Mary Beth Walker.  Economics of Education Review 35 (2013) 66-74.

• The Impact of HIV Education on Behavior among Youths:  A Propensity Score Matching Approach.  Contemporary Economic Policy 31 (2013) 503-527.
  

• Does Information Matter?  The Effect of the Meth Project on Meth Use among Youths.  Journal of Health Economics 29 (2010) 732-742.            

  • In public media:  Boise Weekly, Denver Post, Honolulu Star Adverstiser, Montana CBS News.

• Estimating the Economic Value of Ice Climbing in Hyalite Canyon:  An Application of Travel Cost Count Data Models that Account for Excess Zeros.  Journal of Environmental Management 91 (2010) 1012-1020.  Earlier version available as University of Washington Working Paper.

Research in Progress

• The Social and Economic Impacts of Military Base Closures, with Daniel Rees.

• Child Labor Laws, Adolescent Labor Supply, and Mothers' Work Effort:  Evidence from the Great Depression Era in the United States, with Sara Greene and Alan Seals.
  

• Racial Discrimination amongst Competitors:  Evidence from Beaned Batters in Major League Baseball, with Claus Portner and Bryan Vadheim.

• Unethical Incentives in the Workplace:  Evidence from the NFL and Bountygate, with Henri Pellerin.
  

• Does the Four-Day School Week Impact High School Dropout Rates? with Chris Stoddard and Mary Beth Walker.

• The Effect of Knowledge on Behavior when Individuals Overestimate Risk, with Claus Portner.
  

• Endogenous Travel Costs and Residential Location:  An Application to Ice Climbers.