Sarah's Scholarship
Sarah’s scholarship consists of two distinct, though at times interwoven, agendas: one of empirical applied microeconomics research in public and labor economics and an emerging line of scholarship that bridges Christian theology with economic thought, including the work of Nobel Laureate economist F.A. Hayek.
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Selected Publications
- Religious Liberty in the States 2023: A Domestic Measure of Statutory Safeguards for the Free Exercise of Religion, statistical index, detailed dataset and academic report, November 2023
- Religious Liberty in the States 2022: A Domestic Measure of Statutory Safeguards for the Free Exercise of Religion, a statistical index, detailed dataset and academic report, September 2022
- “Workforce Development in Michigan,” research report for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, May 2019
- “Smart Sentencing Guidelines: The Effect of Marginal Policy Changes on Recidivism,” with David Phillips, Journal of Public Economics, August 2018
- “Will Daughters Walk Mom’s Talk? The Effects of Maternal Communication about Sex on the Sexual Behavior of Female Adolescents,” with Susan Averett, Review of Economics of the Household, December 2014
- “The Academic Impact on Children of Maternal Post-Secondary Enrollment,” Economics of Education Review, April 2011
Invited Papers
- “The Good Endeavor of the Economist–Educator: An Interview with Kenneth G. Elzinga.” Faith & Economics, Vol. 79, Spring 2022.
- “We’ll Never Be Royals, But That Doesn’t Matter” with Art Carden and Anne Bradley, Independent Review, Summer 2017.
- “The Economics of Title IX Compliance in Collegiate Athletics” in Handbook on the Economics of Women’s Sports, eds. Eva Marikova Leeds and Michael A. Leeds. with Susan L. Averett, August 2013.
Other Academic Writing
- “How States Can Protect Religious Liberty,” Discourse, August 25, 2023.
- Review of The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and The Fate of Liberty by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson in Faith and Economics, Fall 2020.
- Review of How to Survive the Apocalypse: Zombies, Cylons, Faith, and Politics at the End of the World, by Robert Joustra and Alissa Wilkinson in Journal of Markets & Morality, Vol. 22, No. 1, 2019.
- Review of Hayek’s Modern Family: Classical Liberalism and the Evolution of Social Institutions, by Steven Horwitz in Faith and Economics, Fall 2017.
- Review of Out of Poverty: Sweatshops in the Global Economy, by Benjamin Powell in Faith and Economics, Spring 2015.