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David Benjamin Skarbek

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First Name:David
Middle Name:Benjamin
Last Name:Skarbek
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RePEc Short-ID:psk82
http://davidskarbek.com/
Terminal Degree:2010 Economics Department; George Mason University (from RePEc Genealogy)

Affiliation

Brown University - Department of Political Science

https://www.brown.edu/academics/political-science/
United States, Providence, Rhode Island

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Working papers

  1. Freire, Danilo & Skarbek, David & Meadowcroft, John & Guerrero, Eugenia, 2019. "Deaths and Disappearances in the Pinochet Regime: A New Dataset," SocArXiv vqnwu, Center for Open Science.
  2. Adam C. Smith & David B. Skarbek & Bart J. Wilson, 2009. "Anarchy, Groups, and Conflict: An Experiment on the Emergence of Protective Associations," Working Papers 09-03, Chapman University, Economic Science Institute.

Articles

  1. Chad W. Seagren & David Skarbek, 2021. "The evolution of norms within a society of captives," Journal of Economic Interaction and Coordination, Springer;Society for Economic Science with Heterogeneous Interacting Agents, vol. 16(3), pages 529-556, July.
  2. Freire, Danilo & Mignozzetti, Umberto & Skarbek, David, 2021. "Institutional Design and Elite Support for Climate Policies: Evidence from Latin American Countries," Journal of Experimental Political Science, Cambridge University Press, vol. 8(2), pages 172-184, July.
  3. Skarbek, David, 2020. "Qualitative research methods for institutional analysis," Journal of Institutional Economics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 16(4), pages 409-422, August.
  4. David Skarbek, 2018. "Peter T. Leeson: WTF?! An Economic Tour of the Weird," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 174(1), pages 209-211, January.
  5. Skarbek, David, 2016. "Covenants without the Sword? Comparing Prison Self-Governance Globally," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 110(4), pages 845-862, November.
  6. David Skarbek & Peng Wang, 2015. "Criminal rituals," Global Crime, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 16(4), pages 288-305, October.
  7. Skarbek, David, 2014. "Outlaws of the Atlantic: Sailors, Pirates, and Motley Crews in the Age of Sail. By Marcus Rediker. Boston: Beacon Press. 2014. Pp. ix, 223. $26.95, cloth," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 74(4), pages 1238-1239, December.
  8. Andrew Marcum & David Skarbek, 2014. "Why didn’t slaves revolt more often during the Middle Passage?," Rationality and Society, , vol. 26(2), pages 236-262, May.
  9. Roth, M. Garrett & Skarbek, David, 2014. "Prison Gangs and the Community Responsibility System," Review of Behavioral Economics, now publishers, vol. 1(3), pages 223-243, May.
  10. David Skarbek, 2014. "Prisonomics: Lessons from America's Mass Incarceration," Economic Affairs, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 34(3), pages 411-421, October.
  11. David Skarbek, 2014. "Amy E. Lerman, The modern prison paradox: Politics, punishment, and social community," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 161(3), pages 537-539, December.
  12. James Kostelnik & David Skarbek, 2013. "The governance institutions of a drug trafficking organization," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 156(1), pages 95-103, July.
  13. David Skarbek, 2012. "Federico Varese: Mafias on the move: how organized crime conquers new territories," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 151(1), pages 405-407, April.
  14. Adam Smith & David Skarbek & Bart Wilson, 2012. "Anarchy, groups, and conflict: an experiment on the emergence of protective associations," Social Choice and Welfare, Springer;The Society for Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 38(2), pages 325-353, February.
  15. Skarbek, David, 2012. "Prison gangs, norms, and organizations," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 82(1), pages 96-109.
  16. David Skarbek & Emily Skarbek & Brian Skarbek & Erin Skarbek, 2012. "Sweatshops, Opportunity Costs, and Non-Monetary Compensation: Evidence from El Salvador," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 71(3), pages 539-561, July.
  17. David B. Skarbek and Peter T. Leeson, 2011. "What Aid Can't Do: Reply to Ranis," Cato Journal, Cato Journal, Cato Institute, vol. 31(1), pages 83-86, Winter.
  18. Skarbek, David, 2011. "Governance and Prison Gangs," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 105(4), pages 702-716, November.
  19. Peter T. Leeson & David B. Skarbek, 2010. "Criminal constitutions," Global Crime, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 11(3), pages 279-297, August.
  20. David Skarbek, 2010. "Putting the "Con" into Constitutions: The Economics of Prison Gangs," The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, Oxford University Press, vol. 26(2), pages 183-211.
  21. David B. Skarbek and Peter T. Leeson, 2009. "What Can Aid Do?," Cato Journal, Cato Journal, Cato Institute, vol. 29(3), pages 391-397, Fall.
  22. David Skarbek, 2009. "Alertness, local knowledge, and Johnny Appleseed," The Review of Austrian Economics, Springer;Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, vol. 22(4), pages 415-424, December.
  23. David Skarbek, 2009. "F. A. Hayek’s influence on Nobel Prize winners," The Review of Austrian Economics, Springer;Society for the Development of Austrian Economics, vol. 22(1), pages 109-112, March.
  24. David Skarbek, 2008. "Occupational Licensing and Asymmetric Information: Post-Hurricane Evidence from Florida," Cato Journal, Cato Journal, Cato Institute, vol. 28(1), pages 73-82, Winter.
  25. Benjamin Powell & David Skarbek, 2006. "Sweatshops and Third World Living Standards: Are the Jobs Worth the Sweat?," Journal of Labor Research, Transaction Publishers, vol. 27(2), pages 263-274, April.

Chapters

  1. David Skarbek, 2017. "Self-governance, property rights, and illicit commerce," Chapters, in: Todd J. Zywicki & Peter J. Boettke (ed.), Research Handbook on Austrian Law and Economics, chapter 8, pages 178-191, Edward Elgar Publishing.
  2. David Skarbek, 2010. "Restricting Reconstruction: Occupational Licensing and Natural Disasters," Chapters, in: Emily Chamlee-Wright & Virgil Henry Storr (ed.), The Political Economy of Hurricane Katrina and Community Rebound, chapter 5, Edward Elgar Publishing.

Books

  1. Palagashvili,Liya & Piano,Ennio & Skarbek,David, 2017. "The Decline and Rise of Institutions," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9781316649176, October.

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