Sumner La Croix
- University : University of Hawaii
- Department : Dept. of Economicas
- Country : United States
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Main research topics :
- Property Rights
- Institutional Change and Evolution
Representative publications : please login to update it
“Male-Biased Sex Ratios, Marriage, and Household Composition in Early Twentieth-Century Hawai‘i.” Asia-Pacific Economic History Review, forthcoming March 2024. (with Timothy Halliday, Joseph Price, and Jacob Van Leeuwen)
“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)
“Institutions for the Taking: Property Rights and the Settlement of the Cape Colony, 1652-1750,” Economic History Review, Vol. 73, No. 1 (2020): 33-58. (with Alan Dye)
Hawai‘i: Eight Hundred Years of Political and Economic Change. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2019.
“Do Electric Vehicle Incentives Matter? Evidence from the 50 U.S. States,” Research Policy, 47(9) 2018: 1601-1610. (with Sherilyn Wee and Makena Coffman)
“Integration of North and South American Players in Japan’s Professional Baseball Leagues, 1958-2004.” International Economic Review, Vol. 57, No. 3, (August 2016): 1107-29. (with Akihiko Kawaura)
“A Cross-Country Index of Intellectual Property Rights in Pharmaceutical Innovations.” Research Policy, Vol. 44, No. 1 (February 2015): 206-216. (with Ming Liu)
“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, Vol. 73, No. 4 (December 2013): 901-936. (with Alan Dye)
“Patents and Access to Essential Medicines,” In Keith Maskus, ed. Intellectual Property Rights and Technical Change. Vol. 1, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization. New York: Elsevier, 2008. (with Ming Liu)
