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A House of Her Own: Old Age Assistance and the Living Arrangements of Older Nonmarried Women 0 0 1 51 3 3 7 681
Agricultural Decline and the Secular Rise in Male Retirement Rates 0 0 0 38 2 3 4 851
American Living Standards, 1888-1994: Evidence From Consumer Expenditures 0 0 0 76 0 1 2 762
American Living Standards: Evidence from Recreational Expenditures 0 0 0 102 1 3 4 1,362
Becoming Oldest-Old: Evidence from Historical U.S. Data 0 0 0 47 0 0 0 345
Changes in the Value of Life: 1940-1980 0 0 2 192 1 1 5 1,344
Children and Grandchildren of Union Army Veterans: New Data Collections to Study the Persistence of Longevity and Socioeconomic Status Across Generations 0 0 0 30 1 3 7 30
Cowards and Heroes: Group Loyalty in the American Civil War 1 1 1 159 7 8 13 1,407
Death and the Media: Asymmetries in Infectious Disease Reporting During the Health Transition 0 0 0 61 0 1 2 311
Displacing the Family: Union Army Pensions and Elderly Living Arrange- ments 0 0 0 31 0 1 1 374
Economy, the Ghost in Your Gene, and the Escape from Premature Mortality 0 0 13 13 4 8 25 25
Electricity Consumption and Durable Housing: Understanding Cohort Effects 0 0 3 51 1 1 10 416
Energy Conservation "Nudges" and Environmentalist Ideology: Evidence from a Randomized Residential Electricity Field Experiment 1 2 2 196 5 8 12 1,299
Equality Before the Law in U.S. Civil War Courts-Martial 0 12 12 12 2 12 12 12
Explaining the Changing Dynamics of Unemployment: Evidence from Civil War Records 0 0 0 11 1 1 2 1,367
Forging a New Identity: The Costs and Benefits of Diversity in Civil War Combat Units for Black Slaves and Freemen 0 0 0 145 1 3 6 2,983
From Mill Town to Board Room: The Rise of Women's Paid Labor 0 0 0 171 1 1 2 1,100
Health Shocks of the Father and Longevity of the Children's Children 0 0 0 17 1 2 4 28
Health and Labor Force Participation of Older Men, 1900-1991 0 0 0 44 1 1 3 267
Health and the Economy in the United States, from 1750 to the Present 0 0 0 134 8 10 12 259
Health, Education and Income in the United States, 1820-2000 0 0 0 128 2 3 5 120
Health, Income, and Retirement: Evidence from Nineteenth Century America 0 0 0 24 0 0 10 209
Health, Stress, and Social Networks: Evidence from Union Army Veterans 0 0 0 44 2 2 3 181
Hours of Work and the Fair Labor Standards Act: A Study of Retail and Wholesale Trade, 1938-1950 0 0 0 135 2 2 3 4,189
In Memorium: Robert W. Fogel 0 0 0 3 1 1 1 55
Leaders: Privilege, Sacrifice, Opportunity and Personnel Economics in the American Civil War 0 0 0 31 2 4 5 123
Less of a Luxury: The Rise of Recreation since 1888 0 0 0 138 1 1 2 837
Long-Term Declines in Disability Among Older Men: Medical Care, Public Health, and Occupational Change 0 0 0 36 1 1 1 386
Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States 0 0 1 463 0 0 9 3,417
Long-Term declines in Disability Among Older Men: Medical Care, Public Health, and Occupational Change 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 153
Overweight Grandsons and Grandfathers' Starvation Exposure 0 0 0 18 2 3 5 27
Persistent Social Networks: Civil War Veterans who Fought Together Co-Locate in Later Life 0 0 0 93 1 2 5 134
Power Couples: Changes in the Locational Choice of the College Educated, 1940-1990 0 0 0 281 8 8 11 1,761
Race and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from Union Army Veterans 0 0 0 29 1 2 5 204
Race and Pregnancy Outcomes in the Twentieth Century: A Long-Term Comparison 0 0 0 86 2 3 6 614
Scarring and Mortality Selection Among Civil War POWs: A Long-Term Mortality, Morbidity and Socioeconomic Follow-Up 0 0 1 8 2 4 8 94
Shame and Ostracism: Union Army Deserters Leave Home 0 0 0 49 1 2 9 728
Surviving Andersonville: The Benefits of Social Networks in POW Camps 0 0 0 80 2 2 3 692
The Economy, the Ghost in Your Gene and the Escape from Premature Mortality 0 0 18 18 1 3 18 18
The Economy, the Ghost in Your Gene, and the Escape from Premature Mortality 0 0 3 3 2 3 9 9
The Measure of Man and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from the Gould Sample 0 0 0 22 1 1 2 423
The Political Economy of State Provided Health Insurance in the Progressive Era: Evidence from California 0 0 0 147 0 3 4 1,520
The Rise of Retirement Among African Americans: Wealth and Social Security Effects 0 0 0 35 3 5 7 263
The Unequal Work Day: A Long-Term View 0 0 0 60 1 1 1 798
The Wage and the Length of the Work Day: From the 1890s to 1991 1 1 1 283 1 1 3 1,491
Understanding Mid-Life and Older Age Mortality Declines: Evidence from Union Army Veterans 0 0 1 37 0 0 2 598
Understanding the Decline in Social Capital, 1952-1998 0 0 0 405 1 1 9 1,652
Understanding the Solar Home Price Premium: Electricity Generation and "Green" Social Status 0 0 0 61 0 0 6 617
Understanding the Twentieth Century Decline in Chronic Conditions Among Older Men 0 0 0 45 2 2 3 543
Unequal at Birth: A Long-Term Comparison of Income and Birth Weight 0 0 0 40 1 1 8 367
Union Army Veterans, All Grown Up 0 0 0 26 1 2 7 42
Union Army Veterans, All Grown Up 0 0 0 0 2 3 3 32
Wartime Health Shocks and the Postwar Socioeconomic Status and Mortality of Union Army Veterans and their Children 0 0 0 51 3 4 8 56
What is Cliometrica 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 99
What is ‘Cliometrica' ? 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5
Why Has California's Residential Electricity Consumption Been So Flat since the 1980s?: A Microeconometric Approach 0 0 1 91 2 2 9 805
Total Working Papers 3 16 60 4,551 92 146 328 38,485


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A house of her own: old age assistance and the living arrangements of older nonmarried women 0 0 0 55 1 1 3 419
A theory of technophysio evolution, with some implications for forecasting population, health care costs, and pension costs 0 0 0 26 1 2 4 138
Aggregation, rank, and some historical Engel curves 0 0 0 13 0 1 3 59
Agricultural Decline and the Secular Rise in Male Retirement Rates 0 0 0 3 0 1 3 63
Changes in the Value of Life, 1940--1980 1 2 3 187 6 25 47 1,703
Changing chronic disease rates and longterm declines in functional limitation among older men 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 27
Children and grandchildren of Union Army veterans: New data collections to study the persistence of longevity and socioeconomic status across generations 0 0 0 0 1 4 5 5
Cowards and Heroes: Group Loyalty in the American Civil War 0 0 0 181 2 3 20 2,068
Death and the Media: Infectious Disease Reporting During the Health Transition 0 0 0 21 2 4 9 559
Declining Mortality Inequality within Cities during the Health Transition 0 0 2 68 2 2 13 351
Deserters, Social Norms, and Migration 0 0 1 37 1 4 11 343
Displacing the Family: Union Army Pensions and Elderly Living Arrangements 0 1 1 30 1 3 6 535
Do liberal home owners consume less electricity? A test of the voluntary restraint hypothesis 0 0 0 39 0 0 5 253
ENERGY CONSERVATION “NUDGES” AND ENVIRONMENTALIST IDEOLOGY: EVIDENCE FROM A RANDOMIZED RESIDENTIAL ELECTRICITY FIELD EXPERIMENT 0 1 3 209 2 5 20 1,019
Electricity Consumption and Durable Housing: Understanding Cohort Effects 0 0 0 50 1 1 12 462
Erratum to: A theory of technophysio, with come implications for forecasting population, health care costs, and pension costs 0 0 0 5 0 1 1 26
Estimating Real Income in the United States from 1888 to 1994: Correcting CPI Bias Using Engel Curves 0 0 1 107 0 2 5 556
Facts of Life: The Social Construction of Vital Statistics, Ontario 1869–1952. By George Emery. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993. Pp. xv, 243. $39.95 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 35
Forging a New Identity: The Costs and Benefits of Diversity in Civil War Combat Units for Black Slaves and Freemen 0 0 0 35 2 3 12 683
From Mill Town to Board Room: The Rise of Women's Paid Labor 0 0 0 164 3 3 11 944
Handbook of Population and Family Economics. Two volumes. Edited by Mark R. Rosenzweig and Oded Stark. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1997. Volume 1A: Pp. xviii, 643; Volume 2A: Pp. xix, (1343–648). $110.00, each volume; $155.00, both volumes 0 0 0 5 1 1 1 33
Health and Labor Force Participation of Older Men, 1900–1991 0 0 0 12 1 3 4 173
Health and Labor Force Participation over the Life Cycle: Evidence from the Past. Edited by Dora L. Costa. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 343. $75.00 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 32
Health and the Economy in the United States from 1750 to the Present 1 1 1 107 8 14 19 378
Health, Income, and Retirement: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century America 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 102
Health, wartime stress, and unit cohesion: Evidence from Union Army veterans 0 0 1 6 1 1 3 41
Height, Weight, Wartime Stress, and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from the Union Army Records 0 0 1 80 2 3 8 383
Hours of Work and the Fair Labor Standards Act: A Study of Retail and Wholesale Trade, 1938–1950 0 1 2 4 1 3 5 212
Leaders: Privilege, Sacrifice, Opportunity, and Personnel Economics in the American Civil War 0 0 0 3 2 2 3 30
Overweight grandsons and grandfathers’ starvation exposure 0 0 0 0 2 2 5 8
Pensions and Retirement Among Black Union Army Veterans 0 0 0 4 0 0 2 43
Pensions and Retirement: Evidence from Union Army Veterans 0 0 2 91 3 5 9 820
Persistent social networks: Civil war veterans who fought together co-locate in later life 0 0 0 10 0 0 4 110
Power Couples: Changes in the Locational Choice of the College Educated, 1940–1990 1 6 6 441 3 12 23 2,189
Predicting Older Age Mortality Trends 0 0 0 16 1 1 1 99
Race and Pregnancy Outcomes in the Twentieth Century: A Long-Term Comparison 0 0 0 12 1 1 3 152
Scarring and Mortality Selection Among Civil War POWs: A Long-Term Mortality, Morbidity, and Socioeconomic Follow-Up 0 0 0 3 0 1 5 86
Surviving Andersonville: The Benefits of Social Networks in POW Camps 0 0 1 73 0 3 11 723
The Evolution of Retirement: An American Economic History, 1880–1990. By Dora Costa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 234.$40.00, £31.95, cloth; $19.00, £ 13.50, paper 0 0 0 21 0 1 1 117
The Evolution of Retirement: Summary of a Research Project 0 0 0 66 0 1 5 229
The Measure of Man and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from the Gould Sample 0 0 0 11 0 0 6 117
The Rising Price of Nonmarket Goods 0 0 0 80 0 1 2 393
The Unequal Work Day: A Long-Term View 0 0 0 39 1 1 4 287
The Wage and the Length of the Work Day: From the 1890s to 1991 0 0 0 153 1 7 11 711
Understanding mid-life and older age mortality declines: evidence from Union Army veterans 0 0 0 11 1 1 3 155
Understanding the American Decline in Social Capital, 1952–1998 0 0 0 38 1 3 7 740
Understanding the Solar Home price premium: Electricity generation and “Green” social status 1 1 2 107 3 6 23 807
Understanding the twentieth-century decline in chronic conditions among older men 0 0 0 4 2 5 7 96
Unequal at Birth: A Long-Term Comparison of Income and Birth Weight 0 0 0 17 1 2 8 132
Union Army veterans, all grown up 0 0 0 0 2 2 3 21
Wartime health shocks and the postwar socioeconomic status and mortality of union army veterans and their children 0 0 0 1 0 4 6 18
What is ‘Cliometrica’? 0 0 1 117 1 1 6 355
Total Journal Articles 4 13 28 2,767 66 155 393 20,040


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Economics of Health and Mortality 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 26
Health and Labor Force Participation over the Life Cycle: Evidence from the Past 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 138
Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War 0 0 0 0 5 5 7 288
The Evolution of Retirement 0 0 0 0 2 2 5 81
The Evolution of Retirement: An American Economic History, 1880-1990 0 0 0 0 1 1 9 373
Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth: Geography, Institutions, and the Knowledge Economy 0 0 0 0 2 5 7 225
Total Books 0 0 0 0 10 14 29 1,131


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Appendix A: Union Army Pensions and Civil War Records 0 0 0 19 0 1 4 81
Building the Armies 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 38
Conclusion 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 42
Data Appendix 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 38
Demand for Private and State-Provided Health Insurance in the 1910s: Evidence from California 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 5
Displacing the Family 0 0 0 19 1 1 1 43
Health, Education, and Income in the United States, 1820–2000 0 0 0 21 0 0 1 129
Heroes and Cowards 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 116
Income and Retirement 0 0 0 30 0 0 2 72
Introduction to "Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth: Geography, Institutions, and the Knowledge Economy 0 0 0 17 0 0 1 96
Learning from the Past 0 0 0 0 3 3 5 61
Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States 0 0 3 73 2 2 9 253
Looking to the Future 0 0 0 17 0 0 0 33
Loyalty and Sacrifice 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 117
POW Camp Survivors 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 64
Pensions and Politics 0 0 1 25 0 0 1 41
Preface 0 0 0 18 0 1 1 96
Preface 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 55
References 0 0 0 16 1 1 2 38
Slaves Become Freemen 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 57
The Evolution of Retirement 0 0 6 84 1 2 12 241
The Health of Older Men in the Past 0 0 0 6 1 1 1 40
The Homecoming of Heroes and Cowards 0 0 0 0 1 2 4 54
The Older Worker 0 0 0 24 0 0 0 78
The Problem of Old Age 0 0 0 41 0 0 1 153
The Rise of the Leisured Class 0 0 0 24 0 0 0 85
Why the US Civil War 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 36
Work and Disease 0 0 0 22 1 1 2 45
Total Chapters 0 0 10 461 12 20 65 2,207


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