Michael D. Makowsky

Walker (United States) — United States

Social Sciences · Social Sciences

17h-index862citations76works0.62yr avg
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Research Topics

Culture, Economy, and Development Studies(14), Crime Patterns and Interventions(12), Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies(12), Religion and Society Interactions(11), Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems(9)

Publications76 total

Better Stealing Than Dealing: How do Felony Theft Thresholds Impact Crime?
SSRN Electronic Journal·2026Open Access
Labor market monopsony and local clubs: Evidence from Indonesia
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization·2025
Better Stealing Than Dealing: How do Felony Theft Thresholds Impact Crime?
SSRN Electronic Journal·2025Open Access
Monopsony and Local Religious Clubs: Evidence From Indonesia
SSRN Electronic Journal·2025Open Access
Lame duck law enforcement
Economics Letters·2024· 2 cited
The wages of irregular tasks: workers’ compensation benefits and occupational misclassification
The Geneva Risk and Insurance Review·2024· 2 cited
Monopsony and Local Religious Clubs: Evidence from Indonesia
SSRN Electronic Journal·2024Open Access
Firearms and Lynching
The Journal of Law and Economics·2023· 1 cited
Lame Duck Law Enforcement
SSRN Electronic Journal·2023Open Access
Lame Duck Law Enforcement
SSRN Electronic Journal·2023Open Access
Not as I Do: Hypocrisy Aversion and Optimal Punishment of Common Offenses
2022· 1 cited
Voting For Crooks
SSRN Electronic Journal·2022Open Access
The Minimum Wage, EITC, and Criminal Recidivism
The Journal of Human Resources·2021· 43 cited
Local Government Dependence on Criminal Justice Revenue and Emerging Constraints
Annual Review of Criminology·2020· 38 citedOpen Access
The Wages of Irregular Tasks: Workers’ Compensation Benefits and Occupational Misclassification
SSRN Electronic Journal·2020Open Access
Firearms and Violence Under Jim Crow
SSRN Electronic Journal·2020Open Access
When Average Is Irrelevant: Computational Modeling of Religious Groups
2019· 1 cited
To Serve and Collect: The Fiscal and Racial Determinants of Law Enforcement
The Journal of Legal Studies·2019· 59 cited
The Minimum Wage, EITC, and Criminal Recidivism
2018· 42 citedOpen Access
Embezzlement, whistleblowing, and organizational architecture: An experimental investigation
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization·2018· 19 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Thomas Stratmann(9), Jared Rubin(4), Eili Klein(4), Laurence R. Iannaccone(3), Amanda Agan(3), Paul E. Smaldino(3), Juergen Jung(3), David M. Levy(3), Jason A. Aimone(2), Siyu Wang(2), Wafa Hakim Orman(2), Sandra J. Peart(2), Shane Sanders(2), Michael Toth(2), Alex Tabarrok(1), Scott Levin(1), Matthew Toerper(1), Tim Xu(1), Gai Cole(1), Gabor D. Kelen(1)