Research Papers in Progress

  • Reseach Papers:
  • Alston, Lee J. and Bernardo Mueller "Priests, Property Rights and Land Tenure in Brazil," Working Paper University of Colorado. (January 2009).
  • Alston, Lee J., Edwyna Harris, and Bernardo Mueller, "De Facto and De Jure Property Rights: Land Settlement and Land Conflict on the Australian, Brazilian and U.S. Frontiers," Working Paper. University of Colorado. (January 2009).
  • Alston, Lee J. and Joseph P. Ferrie, "Mobility on the Agricultural Ladder and Intergenerational Wealth Transfers in U.S. Agriculture, 1880-1920," Working Paper University of Colorado. (November 2008)
  • Alston, Lee J., Marcus Melo, Bernardo Mueller, and Carlos Pereira, "The Choices Governors Make: Political Institutions and Economic Performance in Brazil (October 2008)
  • Alston, Lee J., Marcus Melo, Bernardo Mueller, and Carlos Pereira "Making the (Investment) Grade: Evolving Political Institutions and the Use of Presidential Powers in Brazil." Working Paper. University of Colorado (October 2008). Under Review Economics and Politics
  • Alston, Lee J. and Andres Gallo "Electoral Fraud, the Rise of Peron, and Demise of Checks and Balances in Argentina" (March 2008). Under Review Explorations in Economic History
  • (Co-authored with Gary Libecap and Bernardo Mueller) "Interest Groups, Information Manipulation in the Media, and Public Policy: The Case of the Landless Peasants Movement in Brazil" Working Paper University of Colorado. December 2008. Under Review American Political Science Review.
  • (Co-authored with Andres Gallo) " "The Effects of Tenancy on Rural Production: The case of Argentina 1994-2002" Working Paper University of Colorado 2008.
  • (Co-authored with Herbert Emery, Randal Rucker and Marc Weidenmeir) "Did U.S. Agricultural Policy Lock Farmers into Wheat? The Capitalization of Farm Policies into Land Prices in the U.S. and Canada" Working Paper (September 2005).
  • (Co-authored with Bernardo Mueller) "Land Differentiation, Land Conflict and the Decline of Agricultural Tenancy in Brazil" Working Paper (February 2005).
  • "A Framework for Understanding the New Institutional Economics." Working Paper University of Colorado (December 2005).
  • (Co-authored with Jeffrey T. LaFrance and Randal Rucker ) "An Economic Analysis of the Determinants of Farm Failure Rates, 1911-1980," Working Paper (February 1990).
  • (Co-authored with Joseph Ferrie) "A Theory of In-Kind Compensation With an Application to Agriculture," Williams College, Department of Economics, Working Paper (July 1989).
  • (Co-authored with Robert Higgs) "An Economist's Perspective on Southern Paternalism," Williams College, Department of Economics, Working Paper (June 1983).
  • (Co-authored with Robert Higgs) "Firm versus Market: A Comment on Williamson's Model of the Resource Coordination Problem," University of Washington, Department of Economics, Working Paper (February 1982).