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2023

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Law

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41
Citations
8606
World Ranking
94
National Ranking
75

Economics and Finance

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42
Citations
8547
World Ranking
2060
National Ranking
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  • 2023 - Research.com Law in United States Leader Award

Overview

Lee J. Alston is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States. Their research spans primarily within the social sciences, with significant contributions to the fields of economics, econometrics, and finance. Alston's scholarly work delves into interdisciplinary subfields including economics and econometrics, anthropology, safety research, demography, and visual arts and performing arts.

Their research topics cover a range of areas, notably:

  • Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies
  • Archaeology and Natural History
  • Culture, Economy, and Development Studies
  • Sports Analytics and Performance
  • Law, Economics, and Judicial Systems
  • Colonialism, Slavery, and Trade
  • Historical Economic and Social Studies

Alston has published mainly in the SSRN Electronic Journal, with eight publications, as well as in the Journal of Historical Political Economy.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Alston include:

  • Leadership and Organizations (2021), SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Leadership and Organizational Hierarchies (2020), SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Spanish Mission Legacy on Native American Reservations (2022), SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Spanish Mission Legacy on Native American Reservations (2023), Journal of Historical Political Economy
  • Property Rights in Historical Political Economy: When Do Wedges Wither? (2022), SSRN Electronic Journal

Frequent collaborators in their work include Bernardo Mueller, Eric Alston, Marie Christine Duggan, and Julio Alberto Ramos Pastrana, indicating a network of repeated academic partnerships.

Best Publications

  • The Determinants and Impact of Property Rights: Land Titles on the Brazilian Frontier

    Lee Alston;Gary Libecap;Robert Schneider

  • Titles, Conflict, and Land Use: The Development of Property Rights and Land Reform on the Brazilian Amazon Frontier

    Lee J. Alston;Gary D. Libecap;Bernardo Mueller

  • Empirical studies in institutional change

    Lee J. Alston;Thráinn Eggertsson;Douglass Cecil North

  • Land reform policies, the sources of violent conflict, and implications for deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon.

    Lee J. Alston;Lee J. Alston;Gary D. Libecap;Gary D. Libecap;Bernardo Mueller

  • Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance

    Lee J. Alston

  • Social Norms and Global Environmental Challenges: The Complex Interaction of Behaviors, Values, and Policy

    Ann P. Kinzig;Paul R. Ehrlich;Lee J. Alston;Kenneth Arrow

  • A note on the economics of institutions

    Lee J. Alston;Thrainn Eggertsson;Douglass C. North

  • Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South, 1865–1965

    Lee J. Alston;Joseph P. Ferrie

  • Pork for Policy: Executive and Legislative Exchange in Brazil

    Lee Alston;Bernardo Mueller

  • Why Do Banks Fail? Evidence from the 1920s

    Lee J. Alston;Wayne A. Grove;David C. Wheelock

  • Contractual Mix in Southern Agriculture since the Civil War: Facts, Hypotheses, and Tests

    Lee J. Alston;Robert Higgs

  • Policymaking in Latin America: How Politics Shapes Policies

    Pablo T. Spiller;Ernesto H. Stein;Mariano Tommasi;Carlos Scartascini

  • Farm Foreclosures in the United States During the Interwar Period

    Lee J. Alston

  • New institutional economics: a guidebook

    Eric Brousseau;Jean-Michel Glachant

  • The Determinants and Impact of Property Rights: Land Titles on the Brazilian Frontier

    Lee J. Alston;Lee J. Alston;Robert Schneider;Gary D. Libecap

  • A model of rural conflict: violence and land reform policy in Brazil

    Lee J. Alston;Gary D. Libecap;Bernardo Mueller

  • Political Institutions, Policymaking Processes and Policy Outcomes in Brazil

    Lee J. Alston;Marcus André Melo;Bernardo Mueller;Carlos Pereira

  • Brazil in Transition: Beliefs, Leadership, and Institutional Change

    Lee J. Alston;Marcus André Melo;Bernardo Mueller;Carlos Pereira

  • Brazil in Transition

    Lee J. Alston;Marcus André Melo;Bernardo Mueller;Carlos Pereira

  • Property Rights and the State

    Lee J. Alston;Bernardo Mueller

  • Resource coordination and transaction costs: A framework for analyzing the firm/market boundary

    Lee J. Alston;William Gillespie

  • Property Rights and the Preconditions for Markets: The Case of the Amazon Frontier

    Lee J. Alston;Gary D. Libecap;Robert Schneider

  • Labor Costs, Paternalism, and Loyalty in Southern Agriculture: A Constraint on the Growth of the Welfare State

    Lee J. Alston;Joseph P. Ferrie

  • Farm Foreclosure Moratorium Legislation: A Lesson from the Past

    Lee J. Alston

  • Who Decides the Budget?: A Political Economy Analysis of the Budget Process in Latin America

    Carlos Scartascini;Ernesto H. Stein;Emmanuel Abuelafia;Sergio Berensztein

  • The Development of Property Rights on Frontiers: Endowments, Norms, and Politics

    Lee J Alston;Edwyna Margaret Harris;Bernardo Mueller

  • Empirical Studies in Institutional Change: Paternalism in agricultural labor contracts in the U.S. South: implications for the growth of the welfare state

    Lee J. Alston;Joseph P. Ferrie

  • Titles, conflict, and land use

    Lee J. Alston;Gary D. Libecap;Bernardo Mueller

  • The economic institutions of capitalism: Firms markets, relational contracting: Oliver E. Williamson, (The Free Press, New York, 1985) pp. xiv + 450, $25.00

    Lee J. Alston

  • Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South, 1865-1965

    Elna C. Green;Lee J. Alston;Joseph P. Ferrie

  • Empirical Studies in Institutional Change: Regulating natural resources: the evolution of perverse property rights

    Lee J. Alston;Thrainn Eggertsson;Douglass C. North

Frequent Co-Authors

Gary D. Libecap
Gary D. Libecap University of California, Santa Barbara
Douglass C. North
Douglass C. North Washington University in St. Louis
Ernesto Stein
Ernesto Stein Inter-American Development Bank
Robert J. Schneider
Robert J. Schneider New York University
Pablo T. Spiller
Pablo T. Spiller University of California, Berkeley
Mariano Tommasi
Mariano Tommasi University of San Andrés
Jeffrey B. Nugent
Jeffrey B. Nugent University of Southern California
David C. Wheelock
David C. Wheelock Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Gretchen C. Daily
Gretchen C. Daily Stanford University
Elinor Ostrom
Elinor Ostrom Indiana University

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