Publications: Christopher Berry

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  • Affiliation: Harris School of Public Policy, The University of Chicago
  • Google Scholar ID: RLau5Z0AAAAJ
  • Total Publications: 78

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The divergence of human capital levels across cities
Papers in regional science 84 (3), 407-444, 2005
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2005 1175 98.1%
The Jackie (and Jill) Robinson effect: why do congresswomen outperform congressmen?
American Journal of Political Science 55 (3), 478-493, 2011
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2011 599 96.2%
The president and the distribution of federal spending
American Political Science Review 104 (4), 783-799, 2010
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2010 517 95.1%
Evaluating the effects of shelter-in-place policies during the COVID-19 pandemic
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (15), e2019706118, 2021
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2021 103 92.7%
Accountability and local elections: Rethinking retrospective voting
The Journal of Politics 69 (3), 844-858, 2007
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2007 361 91.7%
Reassessing the property tax
Available at SSRN 3800536, 2021
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2021 62 86.8%
Cardinals or clerics? Congressional committees and the distribution of pork
American Journal of Political Science 60 (3), 692-708, 2016
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2016 132 85.0%
Imperfect union: Representation and taxation in multilevel governments
Cambridge University Press, 2009
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2009 193 84.6%
Why are smart places getting smarter
Rappaport Institute/Taubman Center Policy Brief 2, 2006
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2006 200 83.8%
A Bridge to Somewhere: Mapping State and Congressional Ideology on a Cross‐Institutional Common Space
Legislative Studies Quarterly 35 (3), 417-448, 2010
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2010 178 83.2%
Growing pains: The school consolidation movement and student outcomes
The Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization 26 (1), 1-29, 2010
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2010 166 82.0%
Piling on: Multilevel government and the fiscal common‐pool
American Journal of Political Science 52 (4), 802-820, 2008
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2008 165 81.5%
The unbundled executive
The University of Chicago Law Review 75 (4), 1385-1434, 2008
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2008 157 80.6%
After enactment: The lives and deaths of federal programs
American Journal of Political Science 54 (1), 1-17, 2010
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2010 148 80.0%
Theory and Credibility: Integrating Theoretical and Empirical Social Science
Princeton University Press, 2021
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2021 41 79.5%
Taxed out: Illegal property tax assessments and the epidemic of tax foreclosures in Detroit
UC Irvine L. Rev. 9, 847, 2018
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2018 66 75.3%
Congressional committees, legislative influence, and the hegemony of chairs
Journal of Public Economics 158, 1-11, 2018
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2018 61 73.5%
Leadership or luck? Randomization inference for leader effects in politics, business, and sports
Science advances 7 (4), eabe3404, 2021
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2021 31 73.3%
Land use regulation and residential segregation: does zoning matter?
American Law and Economics Review 3 (2), 251-274, 2001
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2001 107 70.4%
Agency design and political control
Yale LJ 126, 1002, 2016
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2016 60 68.5%
To bank or not to bank? A survey oflow-income households
Building assets, building credit: Creating wealth in low-income communities, 47, 2006
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2006 78 65.2%
Modeling theories of women's underrepresentation in elections
American Journal of Political Science 68 (1), 289-303, 2024
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2024 6 64.3%
The timing of elections
The University of Chicago Law Review, 37-64, 2010
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2010 69 63.8%
Election timing and public policy
Quarterly Journal of Political Science, 2011
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2011 61 61.6%
Distributive politics and legislator ideology
The Journal of Politics 78 (1), 214-231, 2016
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2016 41 58.4%
Fiscal consequences of electoral institutions
The Journal of Law and Economics 52 (3), 469-495, 2009
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2009 51 56.5%
School Inflation: Did the 20th-Century Growth in School Size Improve Education?.
Education Next 4 (4), 56-62, 2004
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2004 54 56.2%
School consolidation and inequality
Brookings Papers on Education Policy, 49-75, 2006
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2006 49 54.8%
Democratic accountability in public education
na, 2005
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2005 43 52.2%
The impact of school finance judgments on state fiscal policy
School money trials: The legal pursuit of educational adequacy, 213-242, 2007
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2007 42 51.6%
Piling on: The fiscal effects of jurisdictional overlap
American Journal of Political Science 52 (4), 802-820, 2008
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2008 38 49.7%
The market potential of inner-city neighborhoods: Filling the information gap
Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, the Brookings Institution, 1999
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1999 31 46.8%
The changing dynamics of urban America
RW Ventures for CEOs for Cities, 2004
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2004 33 46.5%
School district consolidation and student outcomes: Does size matter
Besieged: School boards and the future of education politics, 208-323, 2005
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2005 32 46.5%
Living legislation: Durability, change, and the politics of American lawmaking
University of Chicago Press, 2012
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2012 30 45.5%
How much do coaches matter?
Sports Analytic Conference, MIT Sloan, Boston, MA, 2019
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2019 18 45.3%
Agency design and distributive politics
U of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper, 2010
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2010 29 44.5%
To bank or not to bank
A survey of low-income households, 04-3, 2004
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2004 23 40.3%
The Community Reinvestment Act: a regression discontinuity analysis
Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, 2007
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2007 18 35.8%
Burden, and William G. Howell. 2006.“
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1970 8 34.6%
Methodological Issues in Bridging Ideal Points in Disparate Institutions in a Data Sparse Environment
Available at SSRN 1746582, 2011
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2011 17 34.5%
Accountability lost: student learning is seldom a factor in school board elections
Education Next 8 (1), 66-73, 2008
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2008 15 32.9%
School size and returns to education: Evidence from the consolidation movement, 1930-1970
Cambridge, MA. Harvard University, 2003
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2003 13 32.2%
All else equal in theory and data (big or small)
PS: Political Science & Politics 48 (1), 89-94, 2015
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2015 14 31.5%
Leadership or Luck? Randomization Inference for Leader Effects (RIFLE)
Mimeo, 2018
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2018 11 30.5%
Direct versus representative democracy: reassessing the fiscal effects
Unpublished manuscript, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2014
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2014 12 28.6%
Cities and Economic Prosperity: A Data Scan on the Role of Cities in Regional and National Economies
CEOs for Cities, 2001
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2001 9 27.1%
The community reinvestment act after thirty years
Chicago, IL: Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago …, 2008
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2008 10 27.0%
Matters of Life and Death: The Durability of Discretionary Programs 1970-2004
Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago Working Papers, 2007
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2007 9 25.4%
Agency spending and political control of the bureaucracy
Conference on The Politics of Federal Spending, 2010
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2010 9 24.8%
School-finance reform in red and blue
Education Next 10 (3), 62-69, 2010
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2010 9 24.8%
Making courts matter: Politics and the implementation of state supreme court decisions
U. Chi. L. Rev. 79, 1, 2012
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2012 9 24.2%
Voters, non-voters, and the implications of election timing for public policy
University of Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper, 2010
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2010 8 23.2%
Direct democracy and redistribution
Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, The University of …, 2009
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2009 7 22.3%
Retrospective voting in single function elections: school boards and student achievement
Mimeo, 2006
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2006 6 20.6%
Sources of Women’s Underrepresentation in US Politics: A Model of Election Aversion and Voter Discrimination
Working paper: https://www. dropbox. com/s/9wzzhcrvd5zsvoy/female_candidates …, 2020
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2020 5 20.0%
Problems in the Recovery of Common Space Ideal Points from Disparate Institutions via Bridging
url: http://papers. ssrn. com/sol3/papers. cfm, 2008
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2008 6 19.9%
The growth of local government
Working Paper, Harris School of Public Policy, The Univ. of Chicago, 2015
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2015 6 18.7%
Agency politicization and distributive politics
APSA 2010 Annual Meeting Paper, 2010
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2010 5 17.0%
Grads and fads: The dynamics of human capital location
Washington, DC: Brookings Institute Press, 2004
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2004 4 15.3%
The Timing of Elections
CELS 2009 4th Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper, 2009
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2009 4 15.2%
Imperfect union: Fiscal externalities in multi-level governments.
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2003 3 11.9%
School consolidation and inequality
Harris School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago Working Papers, 2007
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2007 3 11.4%
The Jackie (and Jill) Robinson effect: Congresswomen and the distribution of federal spending
Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, The University of …, 2007
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2007 3 11.4%
Identifying earmarks in congressional bills
Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge …, 2016
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2016 3 10.7%
Congress, in Theory: Subjecting Canonical Models of Distributive Politics to Basic (but Long Overdue) Empirical Tests
annaul meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, 2008
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2008 2 6.8%
Electoral Timing & Selective Participation: Implications for Public Policy
Chicago: The University of Chicago, 2009
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2009 2 6.8%
School inflation: The dramatic growth in school size during the 20th century yields evidence that bigger is not necessarily better
Education Next 4 (4), 56-63, 2004
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2004 2 6.8%
Horizontal fiscal equalisation and regional development: A view from Western Australia
Journal of Economic & Social Policy 14 (3), 100-119, 2011
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2011 2 6.7%
Voters, politicians, and schools: Reassessing the fiscal effects of direct democracy
Unpublished manuscript, Harris School of Public Policy, University of …, 2013
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2013 2 6.6%
School size and student outcomes: a nontechnical paper
Innovation in Education, 15, 2003
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2003 2 6.6%
Local government electoral turnout for Metropolitan Perth
(No Title), 1984
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1984 1 0.0%
Representation without taxation: The fiscal consequences of electoral institutions
American Law & Economics Association Annual Meetings, 66, 2007
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2007 1 0.0%
School Finance Judgments and Spending on Education: A Review of the Evidence
Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, 2007
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2007 1 0.0%
Proposal power, the President, and the geography of federal spending
Unpublished working paper. University of Chicago and University of Wisconsin …, 2008
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2008 1 0.0%
The President and the Distribution of Federal Spending
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2009 1 0.0%
Voters, non-voters, and the implications of election timing for public policy
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2010 1 0.0%
The Distributive Costs of Legislative Extremism: A test of vote-buying theory
Working paper, 2014
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2014 1 0.0%