Douglas W. Allen
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Canadian economist
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Douglas W. Allen's Degrees
- PhD Economics University of Washington
- Masters Economics University of Washington
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Douglas Ward Allen is a Canadian economist and the Burnaby Mountain Professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University. He is known for his research on transaction costs and property rights, and how these influence the structure of organizations and institutions. His research covers four broad areas: transaction cost theory, economic history, agricultural organizations, and the family.
Douglas W. Allen's Published Works
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Published Works
- The Nature of the Farm* (1998) (436)
- Contract Choice in Modern Agriculture: Cash Rent versus Cropshare (1992) (281)
- Homesteading and Property Rights; Or, "How the West Was Really Won" (1991) (227)
- Risk Preferences and the Economics of Contracts (1995) (206)
- The Nature of the Farm: Contracts, Risk, and Organization in Agriculture (2003) (194)
- 'These Boots are Made for Walking': Why Most Divorce Filers are Women (2000) (190)
- Marriage and Divorce: Comment (1992) (173)
- The Role of Risk in Contract Choice (1999) (167)
- Transaction Costs and the Design of Cropshare Contracts (1993) (144)
- The Institutional Revolution (2011) (80)
- The "Back Forty" on a Handshake: Specific Assets, Reputation, and the Structure of Farmland Contracts (1992) (76)
- No-fault divorce in Canada: Its cause and effect (1998) (58)
- Order in the church: A property rights approach (1995) (55)
- Covid-19 Lockdown Cost/Benefits: A Critical Assessment of the Literature (2021) (51)
- What Are Transaction Costs Anyway (1988) (50)
- The British Navy Rules: Monitoring and Incompatible Incentives in the Age of Fighting Sail (2002) (48)
- High school graduation rates among children of same-sex households (2013) (47)
- Welfare and the Family: The Canadian Experience (1993) (45)
- The Coase theorem: coherent, logical, and not disproved (2014) (44)
- An inquiry into the state's role in marriage. (1990) (37)
- THE EFFECT OF SHARING ON THE CHOICE OF SPOUSE (1989) (36)
- Nontraditional Families and Childhood Progress Through School: A Comment on Rosenfeld (2013) (36)
- The Institutional Revolution: Measurement and the Economic Emergence of the Modern World (2011) (36)
- The Rhino’s Horn: Incomplete Property Rights and the Optimal Value of an Asset (2002) (35)
- The Duel of Honor: Screening For Unobservable Social Capital (2006) (34)
- Property Rights, Transaction Costs, and Coase: One More Time (1998) (30)
- Establishing Economic Property Rights by Giving Away an Empire (2019) (30)
- Sex, Property Rights, and Divorce (1998) (30)
- More Heat Than Light: A Critical Assessment of the Same-Sex Parenting Literature, 1995–2013 (2015) (27)
- The Ultimate Resource: 2. By Julian L. Simon. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. Pp. 734. $35.00 (1998) (26)
- Do Joint Parenting Laws Make Any Difference? (2011) (25)
- Soil translocation by pocket gophers in a Mima moundfield (1987) (25)
- Institutionally Constrained Technology Adoption: Resolving the Longbow Puzzle (2015) (24)
- A theory of the pre-modern British aristocracy (2009) (23)
- Searching for Ratchet Effects in Agricultural Contracts (1999) (22)
- Compatible Incentives and the Purchase of Military Commissions (1998) (21)
- On Hodgson on property rights (2015) (20)
- The Evolution of Criminal Law and Police during the Pre-modern Era (2011) (19)
- The Law and Economics of Marriage and Divorce: The impact of legal reforms on marriage and divorce (2002) (16)
- Purchase, Patronage, and Professions: Incentives and the Evolution of Public Office in Pre-Modern Britain (2005) (16)
- The Effect on Divorce of Legislated Net-Wealth Transfers (2006) (14)
- The Transaction Cost Approach To Agricultural Contracts (1996) (14)
- No-Fault Divorce and the Compression of Marriage Ages (2006) (14)
- Small-stone content of Mima mounds of the Columbia Plateau and Rocky Mountain regions: implications for mound origin (1987) (13)
- American Agriculture and the Problem of Monopoly: The Political Economy of Grain Belt Farming, 1953-1980 (2000) (11)
- A transaction cost primer on farm organization. (2000) (11)
- Sorted Stone Nets and Circles of the Columbia Plateau: A Hypothesis (1987) (11)
- Pot-Bellies, Cattle Breeds and Revealing Signals (1993) (10)
- Risk, Uncertainty and Contracts (1994) (10)
- Theoretical Difficulties With Transaction Cost Measurement (2011) (10)
- Same-Sex Marriage and Negative Externalities: A Critique, Replication, and Correction of Langbein and Yost (2015) (9)
- Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South, 1865–1965. By Lee J. Alston and Joseph P. Ferrie. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. xii, 170. $49.95 (1999) (9)
- Rationing by racing and the Oklahoma land rushes (2019) (9)
- An Economic Assessment of Same-Sex Marriage Laws (2006) (9)
- Customs and Incentives in Contracts (2009) (9)
- Microeconomics: Theory with Applications (2009) (8)
- Child support guidelines and divorce incentives (2012) (8)
- Information Sharing During the Klondike Gold Rush (2007) (7)
- An Economic Assessment of Same-Sex Marriage (2005) (7)
- Child Support Guidelines: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (2011) (6)
- “The Lesser of Two Weevils”: British victualling organization in the long eighteenth century (2018) (6)
- Matching, marriage, and children: differences across sexual orientations (2017) (6)
- Bargaining in the Shadow of Joint Parenting (2005) (6)
- Household Production and Sexual Orientation (2015) (6)
- TRANSACTION COSTS AND (2013) (6)
- Risk-Sharing and Agricultural Contracts (1996) (6)
- Theocracy as a Screening Device (2009) (5)
- Do No-Fault Divorce Laws Matter? A Survey, 1995-2006 (2006) (5)
- Stability Rates of Same-Sex Couples: With and Without Children (2020) (5)
- Conservation Practices and the Growth of US Cash Rent Leases (2016) (5)
- Coasean method: lessons from the farm (2014) (4)
- The Organization of Vineyards and Wineries (2019) (4)
- Property Right Acquisition and Path Dependence: Nineteenth-Century Land Policy and Modern Economic Outcomes (2021) (4)
- In defence of the institutional revolution (2013) (3)
- Property as sequential exchange: definition and language issues (2017) (3)
- The Evolution of Criminal Law and Police (2007) (3)
- Family Farm Inc (2000) (3)
- The Anatomy of Canada’s Child Support Guidelines: The Effects, Details, and History of a Feminist Family Policy (2009) (3)
- FARMLAND LEASING IN MODERN AGRICULTURE (1992) (3)
- Rules and rewards in the age of sail: a reply (2003) (2)
- The Insight and the Legacy of the Theory of Share Tenancy (2018) (2)
- The Ownership of Enterprise. By Henry Hansmann. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996. Pp. xi, 372. $39.95 (1997) (2)
- The ancient olympics as a signal of city-state strength (2013) (2)
- Child Support Guidelines and Divorce Rates (2010) (2)
- How many rushed during the Oklahoma land openings? (2020) (1)
- Erratum to: High school graduation rates among children of same-sex households (2014) (1)
- Recognizing and solving institutional puzzles (2018) (1)
- Lays vs. Wages: Contracting in the Klondike Gold Rush (2007) (1)
- What Are Transaction Costs? (1991) (1)
- Evidence of 'Tax' Farming: Tests Using Differential Land Assessments for BC Farms (1985) (1)
- The Back-Forty on a Handshake: Reputation, Specific Assets, and the Structure of Farmland Contracts (1991) (1)
- Coase’s contribution to contract theory (2016) (0)
- The Institutional Economics of Marriage: A Reinterpretation of Margaret Brinig's Contribution to Family Law (2020) (0)
- Pedoman Belajar Internet (1998) (0)
- chairs or discussants at the 1996 Economic History Association meetings. (2016) (0)
- Anderson, Terry (ed). Property Rights and Indian Economies. Boston: Rowman & Littlefield, 1992, viii + 256 p.p., $44.00 (1993) (0)
- The University of Arizona Customs and Incentives in Contracts (2007) (0)
- Review of Massimiliano Vatiero’s The Theory of Transaction in Institutional Economics: A History. New York, NY: Routledge, 2021, 104 pp. (2021) (0)
- " 'These Boots Are Made for Walking' ": A Reply (2002) (0)
- The Dawn of Conservation Diplomacy: U.S.-Canadian Wildlife Protection Treaties in the Progressive Era. By Kurkpatrick Dorsey. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998. pp. xvi, 311. $35.00 (1999) (0)
- Avner Greif, Lynne Kiesling, and John V. C. Nye (eds.), Institutions, Innovation, and Industrialization: Essays in Economic History and Development (2015) (0)
- Erratum to: High school graduation rates among children of same-sex households (2013) (0)
- The Role of Exercise in Internal Medicine (1978) (0)
- The Gains from Marriage: Differences Across Sexual Orientation. (2012) (0)
- The ancient olympics as a signal of city-state strength (2012) (0)
- 1. Race not war: An economic analysis of the Olympic Games in ancient Greece. 2. War without shooting: An analysis of ambush marketing (2007) (0)
- Let's Slow Down: Comments on Same-Sex Marriage and Negative Externalities (2010) (0)
- How many rushed during the Oklahoma land openings? (2019) (0)
- Children case update: private law (2013) (0)
- Matching, marriage, and children: differences across sexual orientations (2016) (0)
- High school graduation rates among children of same-sex households (2013) (0)
- Same-Sex Marriage and Negative Externalities: A Critique, Replication, and Correction of Langbein and Yost · Econ Journal Watch : Same-sex marriage,gay marriage,civil union (2015) (0)
- Avner Greif, Lynne Kiesling, and John V. C. Nye (eds.), Institutions, Innovation, and Industrialization: Essays in Economic History and Development (2015) (0)
- On the primacy of economic property rights (2022) (0)
- Will farmers pay all costs in cropshare contracts (1990) (0)
- Preventive care in general practice. (1979) (0)
- In defence of the institutional revolution (2013) (0)
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