Associate Professor
Ph.D., Stanford University

Email:   econlac @ emory.edu
Telephone: (404) 727-6375

Areas of Interest
Economic History of the United States, Economics of federal Indian policy, Applied Microeconomics, Labor Economics

Selected Publications

Book
Indians, Bureaucrats, and Land: The Dawes Act and the Decline of Indian Farming, The Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut, 1981.

Journal Articles

 “Indian Removal, ‘Squatterism,’ and Slavery: Economic Interests and the Passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830” with Mark A. Roberts, Explorations in Economic History, Volume 43, Issue 3 , July 2006, Pages 486-504  Available on line http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2005.06.003

"The Earnings of Women and Ethnic Minorities, 1959-1979," with Caroline Swartz, Industrial and Labor Relations Review, Vol. 41, no. 4, July 1988, pp. 530-546. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2523588

"Federal Policy and Indian Land: Economic Interests and the Sale of Indian Allotted Land, 1900-1934," Agricultural History, Vol. 57, no. 1, January 1983, pp. 33-45,  http://www.jstor.org/stable/3742657

"A Theory of Residential Location Decisions of Two-Worker Households," with Christopher Curran and David Ford, Journal of Urban Economics, Vol. 12, July 1982, pp. 102-114.

"Land Allotment and the Decline of American Indian Farming," Explorations in Economic History, Vol. 18, no. 2, April 1981, pp. 128-154.
"Labor Supply, the Acquisition of Skills and the Location of Southern Textile Mills, 1880-1900," Journal of Economic History, Vol. 41, no. 1, March 1981, pp. 65-71.  http://www.jstor.org/stable/2120896

Chapters in Books
“Was There an Alternative to Disaster? Policy Alternatives to the Removal of Indians From the Southeastern United States in the 1830’s” in Stanley Engerman and Jacob Metzger, (eds.), Land Rights, Ethno-Nationality and Sovereignty in History, Rutledge Press, 2004

"The Economics and Politics of Irrigation Projects on Indian Reservations, 1900-1940."  in Linda Barrington (ed.), The Other Side of the Frontier: Economic Explorations into Native American History, Westview Press, 1998.

"Learning to Farm: Indian Land Tenure and Farming Before the Dawes Act," in Terry L. Anderson (Editor), Property Rights, Constitutions and Indian Economies, Rowan and Littlefield, 1992, pp. 67-83.

"What Was It Worth? Economic and Historical Aspects of Indian Land Claims", in Imre Sutton, (ed.), Irredeemable America: The Indians' Estate and Land Claims, the University of New Mexico Press, 1985, pp. 87-110.

Working Paper
“Does a Common Heritage Lead to Similar Results?  Or Two Cheers for U.S. Indian Reservations: A Comparison of United States Indian Policy and Australian Policy Towards Aboriginal Peoples.”   Presentation at a Conference in Honor of Gavin Wright, September 24, 2008, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), Stanford University, Stanford, California.