Public Health

Tell Me What You Want: An Affirmative-Choice Answer to the Constitutional Concern About Concealed-Carry on Private PropertyJournal of Legal Analysis (forthcoming 2025) (with Fredrick Vars).

The Coming Assault on Class-Based Gun ProhibitionsStanford Law Review Online (February 2025) (with Fredrick Vars)

Mel Gibson should have a way to get his guns back. Here’s whyThe Washington Post, March 12, 2025 (with Fredrick Vars)

Opinion: Don’t be stupid: Skipping your COVID booster could reduce your IQLos Angeles Times, October 14, 2024 (with Lisa Sanders)

We are taking an ostrich approach to enforcing gun laws - with deadly resultsThe Hill, November 22, 2022 (with Fredrick Vars) 

Patrons packing heat: Businesses should be required to tell customers whether guns are allowed, The Hill, December 20, 2023 (with Fredrick Vars)

Giving up our gun-buying rights is a form of self-defense through suicide preventionUSA Today, September 9, 2022 (with Heather Elliott and Fredrick Vars)

What can cities do when bad gun laws are hurting the economy?Los Angeles Times, August 11, 2022 (with Fredrick Vars) 

Here’s how states can empower citizens to help combat gun violence, The Washington Post, July 28, 2022 (with Fredrick Vars)

A new no-carry default for the US: A gun law that could really change thingsNew York Daily News, July 20, 2022 (with Fredrick Vars)

How can states limit guns? By protecting the right to peaceably assembleLos Angeles Times, July 5, 2022 (with Fredrick Vars) 

Is your dishwasher repairman packing heat? The case for ‘no carry’ gun defaults on private propertyThe Hill, July 1, 2022 (with Spurthi Jonnalagadda)

The case for mandatory gun-liability insuranceThe Washington Post, June 17, 2022 (with Jason Abaluck)

New York’s red-flag law failed in Buffalo. Here’s how to fix itThe Washington Post, May 24, 2022 (with  Fredrick Vars)

Guns and Property Preference: Testing the Impact of Gilles and Cynicism Conjectures Using Survey Data, 39 Quinnipiac Law Review (2021) (with Pranjal Drall, Spurthi Jonnalagadda and Fredrick Vars) 

Giving Property Owners Better Control Over Gun RightsBalkinization, January 12, 2021.

Your Liberty or Your Gun? A Survey of Psychiatrist Understanding of Mental Health ProhibitorsJournal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics (January 2021) (with Cara Newlon and Brian Barnett) Appendix.

Guests with Guns: Public Support for “No Carry” Defaults on Private LandJournal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, (January 2021) (with Spurthi Jonnalagadda) Appendix. 

 The Walmart Effect: Testing Private Interventions to Reduce Gun Suicide48 Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics (January 2021) (with Zachary Shelley and Fredrick E. Vars) Appendix.

A new tool to reduce veteran suicideThe Hill, November 11, 2020 (with Fredrick Vars)

A lottery test of the effect of dispensaries on emergency room visits in ArizonaHealth Economics (June 2020) (with Gregory Conyers)

New Books in Law Podcast (Dec. 2020)

Walmart Leads the WayBalkinization, December 16, 2020 (with Zachary Shelley and Fredrick Vars)

Gun Owners Support the Right Not to Bear ArmsBalkinization, December 4, 2020 (with Fredrick E. Vars)

Peaceful assembly can’t happen without the option of gun-free eventsThe Washington Post, October 28, 2020 (with Fredrick Vars)

Suicide Accounts for Most Gun Deaths. A Libertarian Approach Could HelpThe Washington PostOctober 14, 2020 (with Fredrick Vars)

Guests with Guns: Public Support for “No Carry” Defaults on Private Land, SSRN (July 7, 2020) (with Spurthi Jonnalagadda). Appendix.

Weapon of Choice: Fighting Gun Violence While Respecting Gun Rights, Harvard University Press (2020) (with Fred Vars).

Gun Trust as Private Red Flag Law, ABA (July 2020) (with Fredrick Vars) (Audio link)

Libertarian Gun Control, 167 University of Pennsylvania Law Review  921 (2019) (with Fredrick Vars). Online Appendix. Data and Code.

The Impact of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs on U.S. Opioid Prescriptions, 46 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 387 (2018) (with Amen Jalal). 

Save a Grandma. Get Your Flu ShotLos Angeles Times, Nov. 12, 2018. 

A Gun Control Solution Manufacturers Can Get BehindThe Brookings Institute, March 14, 2018 (with Abraham L. Wickelgren).

A New Way to Reduce Gun Suicides, and Maybe Mass Shootings TooLos Angeles Times, March 12, 2018 (with Fredrick Vars). 

The Impact of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs on U.S. Opioid Prescriptions, 46 Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 387 (2018) (with Amen Jalal). 

How a “No Guns” Registry Could Help Prevent Firearm-Related SuicidesThe Brookings Institute, June 20, 2017 (with Fredrick Vars).

Effect of Perineal Self-Acupressure on Constipation: The PSAC Randomized, Controlled Trial Journal of General Internal Medicine (November 2014) (with Ryan Abbott, Ed Hui and Ka-Kit Hui) (Female Pamphlet) (Male Pamphlet).

Yet Another Refutation of the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis – With Some Help From Moody and Marvell, 6 Econ. J. Watch 35 (2009) (with John Donohue).

More Guns, Less Crime Fails Again: The Latest Evidence from 1977 – 2006, 6 Econ. J. Watch 218 (2009) (with John Donohue).

Extreme Time Discounters and Health, Insurance, and Investment Choices (Working Paper 2014) (with Greg Conyers and Darren Segal)

Three Tests for Measuring Unjustified Disparate Impacts in Organ Transplantation: The Problem of “Included Variable Bias, 48 Perspectives in Biology and Medicine S68 (2005).

Shooting Down the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis, 55 Stanford Law Review 1193 (2003) (with John J. Donohue III) (Stata datasets and do files)

The Latest Misfires in Support of the More Guns, Less Crime Hypothesis55 Stanford Law Review 1371 (2003) (with John J. Donohue III) (Stata do files)

HLA Matching in Renal Transplantation, 332 The New England Journal of Medicine 752 (1995) (with Robert Gaston and Mark Deierhoi).

Racial Equity in Renal Transplantation: The Disparate Impact of HLA-Based Allocation, 270 Journal of American Medical Association 1352 (1993) (with Robert Gaston, Laura Dooley and Arnold Diethelm). Response to letters-to-the-editors, 271 Journal of American Medical Association 269 (1994).

Unequal Racial Access to Kidney Transplantation, 46 Vanderbilt Law Review 805 (1993) (with Laura Dooley and Robert Gaston).