PAPERS

“Firms, Knowledge and Partnerships: Organizational Choice in the Old South.” Business History Conference Working Paper no. 01-03M, August 2000. [entry]

“Short-Term Loans and Long-Term Relationships: Relationship Lending in Early America.” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper no. h0137, December 2001. [abstract]

“Partnership and Hold-up in Early America.” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper no. w8814, February 2002. [abstract]

“The Complexion Gap: The Economic Consequences of Color among Free African-Americans in the Rural Antebellum South.” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper no. w8957, May 2002. [abstract]

“Just and Reasonable Treatment: Racial Treatment in the Terms of Pauper Apprenticeship in Antebellum Maryland.” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper no. w9752, June 2003. [abstract]

“The Economics of Identity and the Endogeneity of Race.” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper no. w9962. [with Christopher S. Ruebeck] September 2003. [abstract]

“Unemployment Risk and Compensating Differentials in Late-Nineteenth Century New Jersey Manufacturing.” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper no. w9977. [with Susan Averett and Justus Staisunas] September 2003. [abstract]

“Bank Chartering and Political Corruption in Antebellum New York: Free Banking as Reform.” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper no. w10479. May 2004. [abstract]

“Free Banking and Bank Entry in Nineteenth-Century New York.” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. w10654, July 2004. [abstract]

Race, Imprisonment, and Criminal Sentencing in Maryland, 1828-1860. [with Veronica Hart] August 2003. [PDF]

The Economic Consequences of Colorism and Complexion Homogamy in the Black Community: Some Historical Evidence. August 2004. [PDF]

“Usury Ceilings and Bank Lending Behavior: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century New York.” NBER working paper #11734, November 2005. [abstract]

“Colorism and African-American Wealth: Evidence from the Nineteenth Century South.” NBER working paper #11732, [with Christopher S. Ruebeck], November 2005. [abstract]

“Urban Poverty, School Attendance, and Adolescent Labor Force Attachment: Some Historical Evidence.” NBER working Paper #11732 (November 2005). [abstract]

“Single Parenthood and Childhood Outcomes in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Urban South,” NBER working paper #12056 (February 2006). [abstract]

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