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Working Papers

Working Papers are research articles that have been submitted to the Independent Institute or written by our Fellows, but have not yet been published or peer reviewed. Independent maintains this index of working papers in order to help disseminate, discuss, and improve important ideas. Authors welcome informed comments. If you would like to submit your paper for possible inclusion please email the paper’s abstract to Independent’s Research Director, William F. Shughart II.

You Get What You Pay For: Result-Based Compensation for Health Care
David A. Hyman, Charles Silver  ·  April 7, 2001
When Is Two Better than One?
How Federalism Mitigates and Intensifies Imperfect Political Competition
Bryan Caplan  ·  October 3, 1999
What Larry Doesn’t Get
A Libertarian Response to Lessig’s Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
David G. Post  ·  February 1, 2000
Wartime Socialization of Investment
A Reassessment of U.S. Capital Formation in the 1940s
Robert Higgs  ·  June 2, 2003
Teacher Training and Texas Education Reform
A Study in Contradiction
J. E. Stone  ·  May 2, 2001
Taxing Development: The Law and Economics of Traffic Impact Fees
Edward P. Stringham, Benjamin Powell, John B. Estill  ·  December 12, 2006
Sweatshops and Third World Living Standards: Are the Jobs Worth the Sweat?
Benjamin Powell, David B. Skarbek  ·  September 27, 2004
The Statute that Time Forgot
18 U.S.C. Section 3501 and the Overhauling of Miranda
Paul G. Cassell  ·  December 1, 1999
The State: Agent or Proprietor?
Herschel I. Grossman  ·  December 3, 1999
State Development Planning: Did it Create an East Asian Miracle?
Benjamin Powell  ·  September 28, 2004
Standing Tiebout on His Head
Tax Capitalization and the Monopoly Power of Local Governments
Bryan Caplan  ·  October 4, 1999
Somalia After State Collapse: Chaos or Improvement?
Benjamin Powell, Ryan Ford, Alex Nowrasteh  ·  November 30, 2006
Settlement and the Decline of Private Prosecution in Thirteenth-Century England
Daniel Klerman  ·  January 2, 2000
The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and the Political Economy of California Water Allocation
Leo K. Simon, Susan Stratton Sayre, Rachael E. Goodhue  ·  September 22, 2010
Runaway Judges? Selection Effects and the Jury
Alexander T. Tabarrok, Eric A. Helland  ·  September 2, 1999
Retail Innovations in American Economic History
The Rise of Mass-Market Merchandisers
Art Carden  ·  July 26, 2012
Rational Irrationality and the Microfoundations of Political Failure
Bryan Caplan  ·  October 5, 1999
The Radical Libertarian Political Economy of 19th Century Preacher David Lipscomb
Edward P. Stringham  ·  December 14, 2006
Public Versus Private Initiative in Arctic Exploration
The Effects of Incentives and Organizational Structure
Jonathan M. Karpoff  ·  June 1, 2000
Public Health and the Placebo
The Legacy of the 1906 Pure Food and Drug Act
Russell S. Sobel  ·  April 3, 2001
Prostitution and Sex Crimes
Kirby R. Cundiff  ·  April 8, 2004
Privatizing the Adjudication of Disputes
Bryan Caplan, Edward P. Stringham  ·  October 17, 2007
Privateering and National Defense: Naval Warfare for Private Profit
Larry J. Sechrest  ·  September 1, 2001
Private Policing in San Francisco
Edward P. Stringham  ·  December 21, 2009
The Positive Correlation of Price and Concentration in Staples: Market Power or Indivisibility?
Craig M. Newmark  ·  April 6, 2001


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