Office: RSB 327
Phone: (804) 287-6573
Fax: (804) 289-8878
Email: ecraft@richmond.edu

Teaching:
Law and Economics
American Economic History
Intermediate Microeconomics
Principles of Microeconomics
Courtship, Sex, and Marriage

Research:
Sex Ratios and Family Outcomes
Personal Property Tax on Vehicles
Traffic Violations

Education:
BA, St. Lawrence University
MA, PhD, University of Chicago

Selected Publications:
"The Postbellum Demand for Cotton Revisited" with Jim Monks, Explorations in Economic History (April 2008); “An Analysis of the Effects of Vehicle Property Taxes on Vehicle Demand” with Robert Schmidt. National Tax Journal (December 2005);  Comment on “These Boots are Made for Walking: Why Most Divorce Filers are Women” by Brinig and Allen, American Law and Economics Review (Fall 2002); The Demand for Vanity (Plates): Elasticities, Net Revenue, Maximization, and Deadweight Loss, Contemporary Economic Policy (Apr. 2002); Private Weather Organizations and the Founding of the United States Weather Bureau, Journal of Economic History (Dec. 1999); Value of Weather Information Services for Nineteenth-Century Great Lakes Shipping, American Economic Review (Dec. 1998)

Academic and Professional Activities:
Member: American Economic Association, Economic History Association; Referee: American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Southern Economic Journal