Research

Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications

  1. Roy Choudhury, Agnitra, Alicia Plemmons, and Sriparna Ghosh. (2026). “Expansions in Scope of Practice Provider Regulations for Certified Nurse Midwives & Maternal-Infant Health Outcomes: Evidence from PRAMS.” Journal of Regulatory Economics. Forthcoming.
  2. Callais, Justin, Vincent Geloso, and Alicia Plemmons. (2026). “Economic Freedom and the Environment: Causal Evidence from Liberalization Reforms.” Structural Change and Economic Dynamics. Forthcoming.
  3. Fitzpatrick, Joyce, Maxwell Mehlman, Alicia Plemmons, et al. (2026). “The Role of Full Practice Authority for Nurse Practitioners on Advancing Early Cancer Detection.” American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Forthcoming.
  4. Plemmons, Alicia, Kate Bradley, and David Wittkower. (2026). “Including Nurse Practitioners in the Primary Care Health Professional Shortage Area Calculation.” Medical Care Research and Review. Forthcoming.
  5. Fitzpatrick, Joyce, Maxwell Mehlman, Alicia Plemmons, et al. (2026). “Variations in Nurse Practitioner Full Practice Authority in the United States.” Health Policy Open. Forthcoming.
  6. Fitzpatrick, Joyce, Maxwell Mehlman, Alicia Plemmons, et al. (2026). “The Impact of Nurse Practitioner Full Practice Authority on Chronic Condition-related Readmissions and Emergency Department Visits in the United States.” Medical Care. 64(4): 192–197.
  7. Fitzpatrick, Joyce, Maxwell Mehlman, Alicia Plemmons, et al. (2025). “The Impact of Nurse Practitioner Full Practice Authority on Pediatric Care Experiences.” Journal of Pediatric Health Care. Forthcoming.
  8. Plemmons, Alicia, Darwyyn Deyo, and Walker Rhine. (2026). “The industry costs and benefits of occupational licensing: measuring differences in establishment behavior and quality.” Journal of Regulatory Economics. 69(1): 1–25.
  9. Callais, Justin, Vincent Geloso, Alicia Plemmons, and Gary Wagner. (2025). “Institutions Matter: Economic Freedom and Income Mobility.” Economic Modelling. 157: 107351.
  10. Geloso, Vincent, Alicia Plemmons, and Pradyot Sharma. (2025). “Income Mobility, Automation and Occupational Licensing.” Southern Economic Journal. Forthcoming.
  11. Callais, Justin, Vincent Geloso, Alicia Plemmons, and Gary Wagner. (2025). “Baumol’s Migrants: Productive and Unproductive Entrepreneurship and Between-MSA Migration.” European Journal of Political Economy. 90(B): 102733.
  12. Maltsev, Vladimir, and Alicia Plemmons. (2025). “Superstition to Support Legitimacy: The Royal Touch in France and England.” Public Choice. Forthcoming.
  13. Miller, Stephen, Gary Wagner, and Alicia Plemmons. (2025). “Minimum Wage Indexing on Employment: An Oregon Case Study Analysis.” Economic Inquiry. 63(3): 681–714.
  14. Deyo, Darwyyn, and Alicia Plemmons. (2025). “Free to Work: Measuring Workforce Outcomes After Illinois’ Criminal Records Reforms.” Economics Letters. 247: 112095.
  15. Shakya, Shishir, and Alicia Plemmons. (2025). “Scope of Practice and Opioid Prescribing Behavior of Nurse Practitioners Serving Medicare Beneficiaries.” Health Economics. 34(2): 225–245.
  16. Plemmons, Alicia, Darwyyn Deyo, and Sarah Drain. (2025). “The Effects of Certificate-of-Need Laws on Substance Use Disorder Care for Vulnerable Populations.” Southern Economic Journal. 92(1): 111–132.
  17. Shakya, Shishir, Alicia Plemmons, Kihwan Bae, and Edward Timmons. (2025). “The Pharmacist Will See You Now: Pharmacist Prescriptive Authority and Access to Care.” Contemporary Economic Policy. 43(1): 161–174.
  18. Shoulders, Angela, and Alicia Plemmons. (2025). “Supply of Mental Health Practices After Prescriptive Authority Expansion for Psychologists.” Contemporary Economic Policy. 43(1): 116–134.
  19. Plemmons, Alicia. (2024). “Scope of Practice: a Discussion of Non-Physician Providers in Care Management.” Contemporary Economic Policy. 43(1): 4–8.
  20. Shakya, Shishir, Alicia Plemmons, and Conor Norris. (2024). “Military Spouse Licensing: a Case Study of Registered Nurses near Military Bases.” Journal of Regulatory Economics. 66: 135–156.
  21. Fraser, Janet, and Alicia Plemmons. (2024). “Access to Emergency Medical Service Education: a Case Study of the Unique Regulatory Structure in Georgia.” Journal of Emergency Medical Services. Forthcoming.
  22. Callais, Justin, Vincent Geloso, and Alicia Plemmons. (2024). “Economic Freedom and Intergenerational Educational Mobility.” Journal of Private Enterprise. 40(1): 85–92.
  23. Hoehn-Velasco, Lauren, Diana Jolles, Alicia Plemmons, and Adan Silverio-Murillo. (2023). “Health Outcomes and Provider Choice under Independent Practice for Certified Nurse Midwives.” Journal of Health Economics. 92: 102817.
  24. Roy Choudhury, Agnitra, and Alicia Plemmons. (2023). “Effects of Giving Psychologists Prescriptive Authority: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in the United States.” Health Policy. 143: 104846.
  25. Geloso, Vincent, Alicia Plemmons, and Andrew Thomas. (2023). “No Wheat Crisis: Trade Liberalization and Transportation Innovation in Quebec during the 1830s and 1840s.” European Review of Economic History. 27(4): 560–580.
  26. Plemmons, Alicia, Shishir Shakya, Kenrick Cato, Tina Sadarangani, Lusine Poghosyan, and Edward Timmons. (2023). “Exploring the Relationship between Nurse Practitioners Full Practice Authority, Nurse Practitioner Workforce Diversity, and Disparate Primary Care Access.” Policy, Politics, and Nursing Practice. 24(1): 26–35.
  27. Plemmons, Alicia, and Sriparna Ghosh. (2022). “Business Regulations and Between-City Migration.” Public Finance Review. 50(5): 579–596.
  28. Deyo, Darwyyn, and Alicia Plemmons. (2022). “Have License, Will Travel: Measuring the Effects of Universal Licensing Recognition on Mobility.” Economics Letters. 219: 110800.
  29. Tracey, Marlon, Alicia Plemmons, and Ariel Belasen. (2022). “Throwing Caution to the Wind: How Hurricanes Affect COVID-19 Spread.” Health Economics. 31(6): 1258–1265.
  30. Roy Choudhury, Agnitra, Sriparna Ghosh, and Alicia Plemmons. (2022). “Certificate of Need Laws and Health Care Utilization During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Journal of Risk and Financial Management. 15(2): 76.
  31. Plemmons, Alicia. (2022). “Occupational Licensing’s Effects on Firm Location and Employment in the United States.” British Journal of Industrial Relations. 60(4): 735–760.
  32. Shakya, Shishir, Alicia Plemmons, and Juan Sayago-Gomez. (2022). “Spatial Spillovers and the Productivity-Compensation Gap in the United States.” Annals of Regional Science. 68: 669–689.
  33. Shakya, Shishir, and Alicia Plemmons. (2022). “Productivity Spillovers and the Productivity-Compensation Gap.” Spatial Economic Analysis. 17(3): 354–369.
  34. Plemmons, Alicia, and Agnitra Roy Choudhury. (2023). “Regional Scope of Practice and Hospital Readmission.” Applied Economics Letters. 30(2): 185–189.
  35. Shakya, Shishir, and Alicia Plemmons. (2021). “The Impact of Economic Freedom on Startups.” Journal of Regional Analysis & Policy. 51(1): 29–42.
  36. Shakya, Shishir, and Alicia Plemmons. (2020). “Does Scope of Practice Affect Mobility of Nurse Practitioners Serving Medicare Beneficiaries?” Journal of Labor Research. 41(4): 421–434.
  37. Plemmons, Alicia. (2021). “Does Occupational Licensing Costs Disproportionately Affect the Self-Employed?” Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy. 10(2): 175–188.
  38. Plemmons, Alicia. (2020). “Changing Bankruptcy Law: The Impact on Small-Business Entry and Exit Behavior.” American Journal of Entrepreneurship. 13(1): 69–91.

Under Review and Revise-and-Resubmit

Revise and resubmit

  1. “Access to Care and Physician Mobility Under the Interstate Medical Licensure Compact” with Darwyyn Deyo (SJSU) and Sriparna Ghosh (UCBA). R&R, Journal of Regulatory Economics.
  2. “Rent-Seeking and State Regulatory Action: The Historical Case of Jitneys in the American South” with Marcus Witcher and Tanner Corley (Univ. of Alabama). R&R, Journal of Regulatory Economics.
  3. “Income Mobility, Austerity and Liberalization: Evidence from Alberta’s Reforms in the 1990s” with Justin Callais (U. of Louisiana at Lafayette) and Vincent Geloso (George Mason University). R&R, European Economic Review.
  4. “Healthcare Workforce Shortages and Job Autonomy: Nurse Practitioners in the United States” with Shishir Shakya (ASU) and Joshua Bedi (Copenhagen Business School). R&R, Journal of Labor Research.

Under review

  1. “Uneven Gains from the First Wave of Right to Work Laws, 1944 to 1963” with Justin Callais (Archbridge Institute), Vincent Geloso (GMU), and Gary Wagner (U. of Louisiana at Lafayette).
  2. “An Update to the Certified Nurse Midwife Regulatory Burden Rankings” with Sabine Stratmann (UVA) and Drake A. Thibodaux.
  3. “Chiropractic Scope of Practice: A New Index and Database of Regulatory Stringency” with Sarah Drain, Elisha K. Denkyirah, Dinushka Paranavitana (Southwestern Univ.), Mustahsin Ul Aziz, and Troy Carneal.
  4. “Variations in Physical Therapy Autonomy and Provider Density” with Mustahsin Ul Aziz, Sarah Drain, and Ethan Kelley.
  5. “Respiratory Therapist Scope of Practice” with Ethan Kelley, Joana Da Silva-Gonzalez, Xavier Fankhouser, and Haoyu Wang.

Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters and Book Reviews

  1. Plemmons, Alicia. (2026). “Scope of Practice in West Virginia.” Unleashing Capitalism: 20th Anniversary Edition. Cardinal Institute.
  2. Plemmons, Alicia. (2023). “Book Review of Grease or Grit.” Perspectives on Work. University of Illinois Press on behalf of Labor and Employment Relations Association.
  3. Plemmons, Alicia. (2023). “Regulating Private Sector Leadership.” The SAGE Encyclopedia of Leadership Studies. Sage Publications. ISBN 9781071840801.
  4. Plemmons, Alicia, and Ed Timmons. (2021). “Occupational Licensing: A Barrier to Opportunity and Prosperity.” Regulation and Economic Opportunity: Blueprints for Reform, pp. 116–148. Center for Growth and Opportunity at Utah State University. ISBN 978-1734856125.