July 09, 2008

Welcome to Brian Rowe's personal website

Brian C. Rowe
Economics Ph.D. Candidate
Department of Economics
University of Michigan
rowebr @ umich dot edu

My two main fields of interest are Public Finance and Health Economics.
Specific areas of research interest for me include the economics of law enforcement, discrimination, smoking and addiction, and taxes.

My current CV: Click here

Working Papers:

The Long-term Effects of a Temporary Shock to Smoking
Behavior: Evidence Based on the Vietnam Draft Lottery

Joint with Daniel Eisenberg, University of Michigan School of Public Health
Download the current version here

Discretion and Ulterior Motives in Traffic Stops:
The detection of other crimes and the revenue from tickets

Work in progress.

Gender Bias in the Enforcement of Traffic Laws:
Evidence based on a new empirical test

Available by request

Useful links:

Vast collection of social science data at the University of Michigan's ICPSR
UCLA's Stata site: http://www.ats.ucla.edu/STAT/stata/
Nice tutorial for learning LaTeX: http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dwilkins/LaTeXPrimer/
Guide to making tables in LaTeX: http://www.tug.org/pracjourn/2007-1/mori/mori.pdf