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Brian G. Knight

Global rank #646 99%

Institution: Brown University

Primary Field: Public (weighted toward more recent publications)

Homepage: https://sites.brown.edu/brianknight/

First Publication: 2000

Most Recent: 2025

RePEc ID: pkn7 ↗

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.01: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period S (4x) A (2x) B (1x) C (½x) Total
Last 5 Years 0.00 3.69 1.68 0.00 9.05
Last 10 Years 0.00 7.21 1.68 0.00 16.09
All Time 7.71 23.29 2.68 0.00 80.10

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 27
Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 33.83

Publications (27)

Year Article Journal Tier Authors
2025 The Franchise, Policing, and Race: Evidence from Arrests Data and the Voting Rights Act American Economic Journal: Applied Economics A 3
2025 Vote early and vote often? Detecting electoral fraud from the timing of 19th century elections Journal of Public Economics A 2
2024 Crime and Gender Segregation: Evidence from the Bogota “Pico y Genero” Lockdown World Bank Economic Review B 3
2023 Immigration and violent crime: Evidence from the Colombia-Venezuela Border Journal of Development Economics A 2
2022 Reducing Frictions in College Admissions: Evidence from the Common Application American Economic Journal: Economic Policy A 2
2022 Opposition Media, State Censorship, and Political Accountability: Evidence from Chavez’s Venezuela World Bank Economic Review B 2
2019 The Out-of-State Tuition Distortion American Economic Journal: Economic Policy A 2
2019 The Limits of Propaganda: Evidence from Chavez’s Venezuela Journal of the European Economic Association A 2
2016 Market-Based Lobbying: Evidence from Advertising Spending in Italy American Economic Journal: Applied Economics A 4
2016 Homophily, group size, and the diffusion of political information in social networks: Evidence from Twitter Journal of Public Economics A 2
2015 SEQUENTIAL OR SIMULTANEOUS ELECTIONS? A WELFARE ANALYSIS International Economic Review B 2
2014 On the Selection of Arbitrators American Economic Review S 3
2013 State Gun Policy and Cross-State Externalities: Evidence from Crime Gun Tracing American Economic Journal: Economic Policy A 1
2012 Spatial Competition and Cross-Border Shopping: Evidence from State Lotteries American Economic Journal: Economic Policy A 2
2011 Media Bias and Influence: Evidence from Newspaper Endorsements Review of Economic Studies S 2
2011 Government Form and Public Spending: Theory and Evidence from US Municipalities American Economic Journal: Economic Policy A 2
2010 Momentum and Social Learning in Presidential Primaries Journal of Political Economy S 2
2009 A New Look at Racial Profiling: Evidence from the Boston Police Department Review of Economics and Statistics A 2
2009 A spatial merger estimator with an application to school district consolidation Journal of Public Economics A 2
2007 Socially Optimal Districting: A Theoretical and Empirical Exploration Quarterly Journal of Economics S 2
2007 Erratum to "Are policy platforms capitalized into equity prices? Evidence from the Bush/Gore 2000 Presidential Election" [J. Public Econ. 90 (4-5) (2006) 751-773] Journal of Public Economics A 1
2007 Are policy platforms capitalized into equity prices? Evidence from the Bush/Gore 2000 Presidential Election Journal of Public Economics A 1
2006 Are policy platforms capitalized into equity prices? Evidence from the Bush/Gore 2000 Presidential Election Journal of Public Economics A 1
2005 Estimating the Value of Proposal Power American Economic Review S 1
2004 Parochial interests and the centralized provision of local public goods: evidence from congressional voting on transportation projects Journal of Public Economics A 1
2002 Endogenous Federal Grants and Crowd-out of State Government Spending: Theory and Evidence from the Federal Highway Aid Program American Economic Review S 1
2000 Supermajority voting requirements for tax increases: evidence from the states Journal of Public Economics A 1