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Lee J. Alston

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First Name: Lee
Middle Name: J.
Last Name: Alston
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RePEc Short-ID: pal162

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Working papers

  1. Lee J. Alston & Edwyna Harris & Bernardo Mueller, 2009. "De Facto and De Jure Property Rights: Land Settlement and Land Conflict on the Australian, Brazilian and U.S. Frontiers," CEPR Discussion Papers 607, Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. [Downloadable!]
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  2. Lee J. Alston & Andrés A. Gallo, 2009. "Electoral Fraud, the Rise of Peron and Demise of Checks and Balances in Argentina," NBER Working Papers 15209, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  3. Lee Alston & Shannan Mattiace & Tomas Nonnenmacher, 2008. "Coercion, Culture and Debt Contracts: The Henequen Industry in Yucatan, Mexico, 1870-1915," NBER Working Papers 13852, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  4. Bernardo Mueller & Lee Alston & Carlos Pereira & Marcus Melo, 2008. "The Choices Governors Make: The Roles of Checks and Balances and Political Competition," Anais do XXXVI Encontro Nacional de Economia [Proceedings of the 36th Brazilian Economics Meeting] 200807181549410, ANPEC - Associação Nacional dos Centros de Pósgraduação em Economia [Brazilian Association of Graduate Programs in Economics]. [Downloadable!]

  5. Bernardo Mueller & Lee J. Alston, 2007. "Legal Reserve Requirements In Brazilian Forests: Path Dependent Evolution Of De Facto Legislation," Anais do XXXV Encontro Nacional de Economia [Proceedings of the 35th Brazilian Economics Meeting] 147, ANPEC - Associação Nacional dos Centros de Pósgraduação em Economia [Brazilian Association of Graduate Programs in Economics]. [Downloadable!]

  6. Bernardo Mueller & Carlos Pereira & Marcus André Melo & Lee J. Alston, 2006. "Political Institutions, Policymaking Processes and Policy Outcomes in Brazil," RES Working Papers 3199, Inter-American Development Bank, Research Department. [Downloadable!]

  7. Lee J. Alston & Gary D. Libecap & Bernardo Mueller, 2005. "How Interest Groups with Limited Resources can Influence Political Outcomes: Information Control and the Landless Peasant Movement in Brazil," ICER Working Papers 15-2005, ICER - International Centre for Economic Research. [Downloadable!]

  8. Lee J. Alston & Bernardo Mueller, 2005. "Pork for Policy: Executive and Legislative Exchange in Brazil," NBER Working Papers 11273, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  9. Lee J. Alston & Jeffery A. Jenkins & Tomas Nonnenmacher, 2005. "Who Should Govern Congress? Access to Power and the Salary Grab of 1873," NBER Working Papers 11908, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  10. Lee J. Alston & Joseph P. Ferrie, 2005. "Time on the Ladder: Career Mobility in Agriculture, 1890-1938," NBER Working Papers 11231, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  11. Bernardo Pinheiro Machado Mueller & Lee Alston, 2001. "Coalitional Stability and the Gains From Trade Between the Executive and the Legislature in Brazil," Anais do XXIX Encontro Nacional de Economia [Proceedings of the 29th Brazilian Economics Meeting] 057, ANPEC - Associação Nacional dos Centros de Pósgraduação em Economia [Brazilian Association of Graduate Programs in Economics]. [Downloadable!]

  12. Lee J. Alston & Ruth Dupre & Tomas Nonnenmacher, 2000. "Social Reformers and Regulation: The Prohibition of Cigarettes in the U.S. and Canada," NBER Historical Working Papers 0131, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  13. Lee J. Alston & Andres Gallo, 2000. "Evolution and Revolution in the Argentine Banking System under Convertibility: The Roles of Crises and Path Dependence," NBER Working Papers 8008, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  14. Lee J. Alston & Gary D. Libecap & Robert Schneider, 1996. "The Determinants and Impact of Property Rights: Land Titles on the Brazilian Frontier," NBER Working Papers 5405, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  15. Fairris, D. & Alston, L.J., 1990. "Wages And The Intensity Of Labor Effort: Efficiency Wages Versus Compensating Payments," Department of Economics Working Papers 138, Department of Economics, Williams College.
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  16. Lee J. Alston & Randal R. Rucker & Marc D. Weidenmier, . "Did U.S. Agricultural Policy Lock Farmers into Wheat? The Capitalization of Farm Policies into Land Prices in the U.S and Canada," Claremont Colleges Working Papers 2000-27, Claremont Colleges. [Downloadable!]

Articles

  1. Alston, Lee J. & Mattiace, Shannan & Nonnenmacher, Tomas, 2009. "Coercion, Culture, and Contracts: Labor and Debt on Henequen Haciendas in Yucat?n, Mexico, 1870?1915," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 69(01), pages 104-137, March. [Downloadable!]

  2. Alston, Lee J. & Jenkins, Jeffery A. & Nonnenmacher, Tomas, 2006. "Who Should Govern Congress? Access to Power and the Salary Grab of 1873," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 66(03), pages 674-706, September. [Downloadable!]
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  3. Lee J. Alston & Bernardo Mueller, 2006. "Pork for Policy: Executive and Legislative Exchange in Brazil," Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, Oxford University Press, vol. 22(1), pages 87-114, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  4. Alston, Lee J. & Ferrie, Joseph P., 2005. "Time on the Ladder: Career Mobility in Agriculture, 1890 1938," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 65(04), pages 1058-1081, December. [Downloadable!]
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  5. Alston, Lee J., 2003. "Access to land, rural poverty and public action: Edited by Alain de Janvry, Gustavo Gordillo, Jean-Philippe Platteau, and Elisabeth Sadoulet. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. pp. xiii, 451," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 70(1), pages 235-238, February. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  6. Lee J. Alston & Andrés Gallo, 2002. "The Political Economy of Bank Reform in Argentina Under Convertibility," Journal of Policy Reform, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 5(1), pages 1-16, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  7. Alston, Lee J. & Dupre, Ruth & Nonnenmacher, Tomas, 2002. "Social reformers and regulation: the prohibition of cigarettes in the United States and Canada," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 39(4), pages 425-445, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  8. Alston, Lee J. & Kauffman, Kyle D., 2001. "Competition and the Compensation of Sharecroppers by Race: A View from Plantations in the Early Twentieth Century," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 38(1), pages 181-194, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  9. Alston, Lee J. & Libecap, Gary D. & Mueller, Bernardo, 2000. "Land Reform Policies, the Sources of Violent Conflict, and Implications for Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon," Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Elsevier, vol. 39(2), pages 162-188, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  10. Alston, Lee J. & Libecap, Gary D. & Mueller, Bernardo, 1999. "A model of rural conflict: violence and land reform policy in Brazil," Environment and Development Economics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 4(02), pages 135-160, May. [Downloadable!]

  11. Alston, Lee J., 1998. "Advances in economics and econometrics: theory and applications. Seventh World Congress. Volume 2. Edited by David M. Kreps and Kenneth F. Wallis. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. ix, 3," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 58(04), pages 1175-1176, December. [Downloadable!]

  12. Alston, Lee J., 1998. "General and Miscellaneous On the Search for Well-Being. By Henry J. Bruton. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1997. Pp. x, 227. $37.50, cloth," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 58(03), pages 914-916, September. [Downloadable!]

  13. Alston, Lee J. & Kauffman, Kyle D., 1997. "Agricultural Chutes and Ladders: New Estimates of Sharecroppers and ?True Tenants? in the South, 1900?1920," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 57(02), pages 464-475, June. [Downloadable!]

  14. Alston, Lee J & Libecap, Gary D & Schneider, Robert, 1996. "The Determinants and Impact of Property Rights: Land Titles on the Brazilian Frontier," Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, Oxford University Press, vol. 12(1), pages 25-61, April.
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  15. Alston, Lee J., 1995. "The economics of rural organization: Theory, practice and policy : Karla Hoff, Avishay Braverman, and Joseph E. Stiglitz, eds., (Oxford University Press, New York, 1993)," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 47(2), pages 502-504, August. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  16. Alston Lee J. & Grove Wayne A. & Wheelock David C., 1994. "Why Do Banks Fail? Evidence from the 1920s," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 31(4), pages 409-431, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  17. Mueller, Bernardo & Alston, Lee & Libecap, Gary D. & Schneider, Robert, 1994. "Land, property rights and privatization in Brazil," The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 34(Supplemen), pages 261-280. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  18. Alston, Lee J & Ferrie, Joseph P, 1993. "Paternalism in Agricultural Labor Contracts in the U.S. South: Implications for the Growth of the Welfare State," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 83(4), pages 852-76, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  19. Alston, Lee J., 1992. "Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance : Douglass C. North, (Cambridge University Press, New York, 1990) pp. viii+152, hardcover $32.50, paper $10.95," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 18(1), pages 142-144, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  20. Alston, Lee J., 1991. "Contracting for Property Rights. By Gary D. Libecap. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. ix, 132. $39.50," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 51(02), pages 517-518, June. [Downloadable!]

  21. Alston, Lee J. & Hatton, T. J., 1991. "The Earnings Gap Between Agricultural and Manufacturing Laborers, 1925?1941," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 51(01), pages 83-99, March. [Downloadable!]

  22. Alston, Lee J., 1990. "The Material Basis of the Postbellum Tenant Plantation: Historical Archaeology in the South Carolina Piedmont. By Charles E. Orser Jr, Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 1988. Pp. xvii, 322. $35," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 50(01), pages 219-220, March. [Downloadable!]

  23. Alston, Lee J. & Gillespie, William, 1989. "Resource coordination and transaction costs : A framework for analyzing the firm/market boundary," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 11(2), pages 191-212, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  24. Rucker, Randal R & Alston, Lee J, 1987. "Farm Failures and Government Intervention: A Case Study of the 1930' s," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 77(4), pages 724-30, September. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  25. Alston, Lee J., 1987. "The economic institutions of capitalism: Firms markets, relational contracting : Oliver E. Williamson, (The Free Press, New York, 1985) pp. xiv + 450, $25.00," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 8(2), pages 316-318, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  26. Alston, Lee J. & Ferrie, Joseph P., 1985. "Labor Costs, Paternalism, and Loyalty in Southern Agriculture: A Constraint on the Growth of the Welfare State," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 45(01), pages 95-117, March. [Downloadable!]

  27. Alston, Lee J., 1985. "Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture 1865?1980. By Gilbert C. Fite. Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky, 1984. Pp. xiii, 273. $28.00," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 45(04), pages 1003-1005, December. [Downloadable!]

  28. Alston, Lee J, 1984. "Farm Foreclosure Moratorium Legislation: A Lesson from the Past," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 74(3), pages 445-57, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  29. Alston, Lee J & Datta, Samar K & Nugent, Jeffrey B, 1984. "Tenancy Choice in a Competitive Framework with Transactions Costs," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 92(6), pages 1121-33, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

  30. Alston, Lee J. & Schapiro, Morton Owen, 1984. "Inheritance Laws Across Colonies: Causes and Consequences," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 44(02), pages 277-287, June. [Downloadable!]

  31. Alston, Lee J., 1983. "Good and Faithful Labor: From Slavery to Sharecropping in the Natchez District, 1860?1890. By Ronald L. F. Davis. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1982. Pp. xx, 225. $25.00," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 43(02), pages 531-532, June. [Downloadable!]

  32. Alston, Lee J., 1983. "Farm Foreclosures in the United States During the Interwar Period," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 43(04), pages 885-903, December. [Downloadable!]

  33. Alston, Lee J. & Higgs, Robert, 1982. "Contractual Mix in Southern Agriculture since the Civil War: Facts, Hypotheses, and Tests," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 42(02), pages 327-353, June. [Downloadable!]

  34. Alston, Lee J., 1981. "Tenure choice in Southern agriculture, 1930-1960," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 18(3), pages 211-232, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

NEP Fields

10 papers by this author were announced in NEP, and specifically in the following field reports (number of papers):
  1. NEP-AGR: Agricultural Economics (4) 2001-10-16 2005-04-03 2009-08-08 2009-09-05 Author is listed
  2. NEP-CDM: Collective Decision-Making (1) 2009-08-02
  3. NEP-DEV: Development (1) 2008-03-25
  4. NEP-ENV: Environmental Economics (1) 2007-12-15
  5. NEP-HIS: Business, Economic & Financial History (4) 2005-04-03 2006-01-01 2008-03-25 2009-08-02 Author is listed
  6. NEP-MIC: Microeconomics (1) 2009-08-08
  7. NEP-POL: Positive Political Economics (4) 2005-04-24 2005-07-25 2006-01-01 2009-08-02 Author is listed
  8. NEP-REG: Regulation (1) 2009-09-05
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