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Agricultural Chutes and Ladders: New Estimates of Sharecroppers and “True Tenants” in the South, 1900–1920

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

Lee J. Alston  and
Kyle D. Kauffman
Lee J. Alston
Affiliation:
Professor of Economics at the University of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801, and Research Associate, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA 02138
Kyle D. Kauffman
Affiliation:
Assistant Professor of Economics at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA 02181.
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 57 , Issue 2 , June 1997 , pp. 464 - 475
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1997

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