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Publications                                                                                                   Complete CV

​Books

 

A Prelude to the Welfare State:  The Origins of Workers’ Compensation (Chicago:  University of Chicago Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research, 2000; paperback, 2006) (with Price V. Fishback; winner of the 2000 TIAA-CREF Institute Certificate of Excellence; winner of the 2001 Richard A. Lester Prize).

 

 

 

 

Politics and Property Rights:  The Closing of the Open Range in the Postbellum South (Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1998).

 

 

 

 

Journal Articles

 

  • “Civil Asset Forfeiture, Crime, and Police Incentives: Evidence from the Comprehensive Crime Control Act of 1984,” Economic Inquiry, 59 (January 2021), pp. 217-42 (with Carl T. Kitchens and Steven Pawlowski).

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  • “Research Proximity and Productivity: Long-Term Evidence from Agriculture,” Journal of Political Economy, 127 (April 2019), pp. 819-54 (with Alexander Whalley).

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  • “Knowledge Spillovers from Research Universities:  Evidence from Endowment Value Shocks,” Review of Economics and Statistics, 96 (March 2014), pp. 171-88 (with Alexander Whalley).  <download>

 

  • “Did the New Deal Solidify the 1932 Democratic Realignment?” Explorations in Economic History, 50 (October 2013), pp. 620-33 (with Price V. Fishback and John Joseph Wallis).  <download>

 

  • “Agricultural Policy, Migration, and Malaria in the United States in the 1930s,” Explorations in Economic History, 49 (October 2012), pp. 381-98 (with Alan Barreca and Price V. Fishback).  <download>

 

  • “The Influence of the Home Owners’ Loan Corporation on Housing Markets During the 1930s,” Review of Financial Studies, 24 (June 2011), pp. 1782-1813 (with Price V. Fishback, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, William C. Horrace, and Jaret Treber).  <download>

 

  • “Striking at the Roots of Crime:  The Impact of Social Welfare Spending on Crime During the Great Depression,” Journal of Law & Economics, 53 (November 2010), pp. 715-40 (with Price V. Fishback and Ryan S. Johnson).  <download>

 

  • “The Effect of Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets: American Cities During the Great Depression,” Journal of Labor Economics, 28 (October 2010), pp. 719-46 (with Leah Platt Boustan and Price V. Fishback; co-winner of the 2010 IPUMS Research Award).  <download>

 

  • “The Dynamics of Relief Spending and the Private Urban Labor Market During the New Deal,” Journal of Economic History, 70 (March 2010), pp. 195-220 (with Todd C. Neumann and Price V. Fishback).  <download>

 

  • “Births, Deaths, and New Deal Relief During the Great Depression,” Review of Economics and Statistics, 89 (February 2007), pp. 1-14 (with Price V. Fishback and Michael R. Haines).  <download>

 

  • “The Impact of New Deal Expenditures on Mobility During the Great Depression,” Explorations in Economic History, 43 (April 2006), pp. 179-222 (with Price V. Fishback and William C. Horrace).  <download>

 

  • “Did New Deal Grant Programs Stimulate Local Economies?  A Study of Federal Grants and Retail Sales During the Great Depression,” Journal of Economic History, 65 (March 2005), pp. 36-71 (with Price V. Fishback and William C. Horrace).  <download>

 

  • “Can the New Deal’s Three Rs Be Rehabilitated? A Program-by-Program, County-by-County Analysis,” Explorations in Economic History, 40 (July 2003), pp. 278-307 (with Price V. Fishback and John Joseph Wallis).  <download>

 

  • “The Impact of New Deal Programs on Black and White Infant Mortality in the South,” Explorations in Economic History, 38 (January 2001), pp. 93-122 (with Price V. Fishback and Michael R. Haines).  <download>

 

  • “The Adoption of Workers’ Compensation in the United States, 1900-1930,” Journal of Law & Economics, 41 (2) (part 1) (October 1998), pp. 305-41 (with Price V. Fishback).  <download>

 

  • “The Political Economy of Workers’ Compensation Benefit Levels, 1910-1930,” Explorations in Economic History, 35 (April 1998), pp. 109-39 (with Price V. Fishback).  <download>

 

  • “How Minnesota Adopted Workers’ Compensation,” The Independent Review, 2 (Spring 1998), pp. 557-78 (with Price V. Fishback).  <download>

 

  • “The Durable Experiment:  State Insurance of Workers’ Compensation Risk in the Early Twentieth Century,” Journal of Economic History, 56 (December 1996), pp. 809-36 (with Price V. Fishback; winner of the 1997 Arthur H. Cole Prize).  <download>

 

  • “Precautionary Saving, Insurance, and the Origins of Workers’ Compensation,” Journal of Political Economy, 104 (April 1996), pp. 419-42 (with Price V. Fishback).  <download>

 

  • “Nonfatal Accident Compensation and the Common Law at the Turn of the Century,” Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 11 (October 1995), pp. 406-33 (with Price V. Fishback).  <download>

 

  • “Supplanting the Roots of Southern Populism:  The Contours of Political Protest in the Georgia Hills,” Journal of Economic History, 55 (September 1995), pp. 637-46.  <download>

 

  • “Did Workers Pay for the Passage of Workers’ Compensation Laws?” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 110 (August 1995), pp. 713-42 (with Price V. Fishback).  <download>

 

  • “The Political Economy of Coalition-Formation:  The Case of Livestock Enclosure in the Postbellum South,” Explorations in Economic History, 32 (January 1995), pp. 82-108.  <download>

 

  • “The Economic and Political Determinants of Fence Reform in Postbellum Georgia,” Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 150 (September 1994), pp. 486-510.  <download>

 

  • “Common Sense or Commonwealth?  The Fence Law and Institutional Change in the Postbellum South,” Journal of Southern History, 59 (May 1993), pp. 201-42 (with J. Morgan Kousser).  <download>

 

  • “Two Visions of History:  A Rejoinder,” Journal of Southern History, 59 (May 1993), pp. 259-66 (with J. Morgan Kousser).  <download>

 

  • “‘Square Deal’ or Raw Deal?  Market Compensation for Workplace Disamenities, 1884-1903,” Journal of Economic History, 52 (December 1992), pp. 826-48 (with Price V. Fishback).  Reprinted in Economic Analysis of Contract Law, Antitrust Law, and Safety Regulations, edited by Jenny B. Wahl (New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1998).  <download>

 

  • “Property Rights and the Dynamics of Institutional Change:  The Closing of the Georgia Open Range, 1870-1900,” Journal of Economic History, 52 (June 1992), pp. 456-59.  <download>

 

  • “Razorbacks, Ticky Cows, and the Closing of the Georgia Open Range:  The Dynamics of Institutional Change Uncovered,” Journal of Economic History, 51 (December 1991), pp. 861-86.  <download>

 

Chapters in Books

 

  • “Extending the Reach of Research Universities: A Proposal for Productivity Growth in Lagging Communities,” in Jay Shambaugh and Ryan Nunn, eds., Place-Based Policies for Shared Economic Growth (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 2018), pp. 157-84 (with E. Jason Baron and Alexander Whalley). <download>

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  • “Politics, Relief, and Reform:  Roosevelt’s Efforts to Control Corruption and Political Manipulation During the New Deal,” in Edward L. Glaeser and Claudia Goldin, eds., Corruption and Reform:  Lessons from America’s History (Chicago:  University of Chicago Press for the NBER, 2006), pp. 343-72 (with Price V. Fishback and John Joseph Wallis).  <download>

 

  • “Coalition Formation and the Adoption of Workers’ Compensation:  The Case of Missouri, 1911 to 1926,” in Claudia Goldin and Gary D. Libecap, eds., The Regulated Economy:  A Historical Approach to Political Economy (Chicago:  University of Chicago Press for the NBER, 1994), pp. 259-97 (with Price V. Fishback).  <download>

 

  • “Fatal Accident Compensation Under the Negligence Liability System,” in Carol S. Leonard and B. N. Mironov, eds., Hours of Work and Means of Payment:  Proceedings of the Eleventh International Economic History Congress (Milan:  Universita Bocconi, 1994), pp. 37-45 (with Price V. Fishback).  <download>

 

  • “Why Did Coal Miners Work So Few Hours?  Labor-Leisure Choice in the Face of Severe Time Constraints,” in Ian Blanchard, ed., Labour and Leisure in Historical Perspective:  Thirteenth to Twentieth Centuries (Stuttgart:  Franz Steiner Verlag, 1994), pp. 125-35 (with William Boal and Price V. Fishback).  <download>

 

 

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