La CROIX: Recent Research in Economic History

PUBLICATIONS

Economic History of Hawai’i. In the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Economics and Finance. Oxford University Press, 2021. doi: 10.1093/acrefore/9780190625979.013.687

Understanding the Gains to Capitalists from Colonization: Lessons from Robert E. Lucas, Jr., Karl Marx and Edward Gibbon Wakefield. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 187, 2021: 348-359. (with Edwyna Harris)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2021.04.030

Australia’s Forgotten Copper Mining Boom: Understanding How South Australia Avoided Dutch Disease, 1843-1850. Economic Record, 97(318), 2021: 424-439.

https://doi.org/10.1111/1475-4932.12607

South Australia’s Employment Relief Program for Assisted Immigrants: Promises and Reality, 1838-1843. Labor History, 61(5-6), 2020: 586-607.

https://doi.org/10.1080/0023656X.2020.1832975

Institutions for the Taking: Property Rights and the Settlement of the Cape Colony, 1652-1750. Economic History Review, 73(1), 2020: 33-58.

https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.12817

The Butlin Memorial Lecture. From First Canoe to Statehood: Eight Hundred Years of Economic and Political Change in Hawaii. Australian Economic History Review, 59(1), 2019: 2-23.

https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12171

The Khoikhoi Population, 1652-1780: A Review of the Evidence and Two New Estimates. Journal of Studies in Economics and Econometrics, 42(2), 2018: 15-34.

https://doi.org/10.1080/10800379.2018.12097332

Douglass North and Cliometrics. In Claude Diebolt and Michael Haupert, eds, Handbook of Cliometrics. Berlin and Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, published on-line 2018. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-40458-0_44-1.

Integration of North and South American Players in Japan’s Professional Baseball Leagues, 1958-2004. International Economic Review, 57(3), 2016: 1107-29.

https://doi.org/10.1111/iere.12187

Land Confiscations and Land Reform in Natural Order States. In: Arsenio Balisacan, Ujjayant Chakravorty, and Majah-Leah Ravago, eds, Resources, Development and Public Policy: Concepts, Practice and Challenges. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2015.

The Political Economy of Land Privatization in Argentina and Australia, 1810-1850. Journal of Economic History, 73(4), 2013: 901-936 (with Alan Dye).

https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050713000831[Opens in a new window]

Appendix available online at http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=JEH.

RESEARCH IN PROGRESS AND WORKING PAPERS

Without Original Sin: A Colonial History of South Australia, 1836-1857. Book manuscript in progress. (with Edwyna Harris)

Cliometric Contributions to Australia’s Economic History. (with Edwyna Harris)

Understanding a Nineteenth-Century Use of the Random Serial Dictator to Allocate Land in Colonial South Australia, 1835-1850. (with Edwyna Harris)

South Australiaʻs Pioneering Relief Program for Sick Emigrants: An Econometric Analysis of Aid Recipients in 1840. (with Edwyna Harris)

Do Rules for Establishing Property Rights in Land Affect Future Development? Evidence from Colonial South Australia, 1837-1910. (with Edwyna Harris)

New Evidence on the Declining Price Anomaly: Auctions of Land Lots in 1837 in Adelaide, South Australia. (with Edwyna Harris)

Male-Biased Sex Ratios, Marriage, and Household Composition in Early Twentieth-Century Hawai‘i. (with Timothy Halliday, Joseph Price, and Jacob Van Leeuwen)

New Evidence on the Standard of Living on Hawaii Sugar Plantations, 1901-1915. (with Price Fishback)

Public Land Policy and Homesteading in Hawai‘i after U.S. Annexation. (with John Joseph Wallis)

Inalienability, Rehabilitation, and Interest Group Politics: An Economic Analysis of the Origins of the Hawaiian Homes Program.

Sons, Daughters, and Labor Supply in Early Twentieth-Century Hawaii. University of Hawaii Dept. of Economics Working Paper No. 13-18, August 2013 (rev. March 2014). (with Timothy Halliday)