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A Patchwork Safety Net: A Survey of Cliometric Studies of Income Maintenance Programs in the United States in the First Half of the Twentieth Century 0 1 2 25 1 2 4 151
A Prelude to the Welfare State: Compulsory State Insurance and Workers' Compensation in Minnesota, Ohio, and Washington, 1911-1919 0 1 1 67 0 2 2 1,382
Agricultural Crises and Government Responses Between the World Wars in the Atlantic Trading Network 0 0 0 23 0 0 0 25
Agricultural Policy, Migration, and Malaria in the 1930s United States 0 0 0 30 0 0 1 142
Births, Deaths, and New Deal Relief during the Great Depression 0 0 0 341 0 0 5 4,945
Can the New Deal's Three R's Be Rehabilitated? A Program-by-Program, County-by-County Analysis 0 0 0 213 0 0 1 4,101
Collateral Damage: The Impact of Foreclosures on New Home Mortgage Lending in the 1930s 0 0 0 20 0 1 1 46
Did Big Government's Largesse Help the Locals? The Implications of WWII Spending for Local Economic Activity, 1939-1958 0 0 0 99 1 2 6 572
Did Inequality in Farm Sizes Lead to Suppression of Banking and Credit in the Late Nineteenth Century? 0 0 1 42 1 2 3 34
Did Workers Pay for the Passage of Workers' Compensation Laws? 0 0 2 61 0 2 5 747
Did the New Deal Solidify the 1932 Democratic Realignment? 0 0 0 62 0 0 3 115
Discrimination, Migration, and Economic Outcomes: Evidence from World War I 0 1 2 42 0 4 11 78
Do Federal Programs Affect Internal Migration? The Impact of New Deal Expenditures on Mobility During the Great Depression 0 0 0 141 0 0 1 1,463
Economic Crisis and the Demise of a Popular Contractual Form: Building and Loan Mortgage Contracts in the 1930s 0 0 0 36 0 0 1 79
Firm-Specific Evidence on Racial Wage Differentials and Workforce Segregation in Hawaii's Sugar Industry 0 1 2 34 0 1 3 241
Flip the Switch: The Spatial Impact of the Rural Electrification Administration 1935-1940 0 0 0 106 0 1 2 168
Fluctuations in Weekly Hours and Total Hours Worked Over the Past 90 Years and the Importance of Changes in Federal Policy Toward Job Sharing 0 0 0 45 0 0 2 53
Forbearance by Contract: How Building and Loans Mitigated the Mortgage Crisis of the 1930s 0 0 0 36 0 0 1 69
Health and Safety vs. Freedom of Contract: The Tortured Path of Wage and Hours Limits Through the State Legislatures and the Courts 0 0 0 16 0 0 2 19
How Successful Was the New Deal? The Microeconomic Impact of New Deal Spending and Lending Policies in the 1930s 2 2 3 74 3 3 10 140
How Successful Was the New Deal? The Microeconomic Impact of New Deal Spending and Lending Policies in the 1930s 0 1 3 109 1 3 8 231
In Search of the Multiplier for Federal Spending in the States During the Great Depression 0 0 0 73 1 3 4 332
Inequality and the Safety Net Throughout the Income Distribution, 1929-1940 0 0 1 16 0 0 1 39
Insurance Rationing and the Origins of Workers' Compensation 0 0 0 70 0 0 1 1,314
Lifting the Curse of Dimensionality: Measures of the Labor Legislation Climate in the States During the Progressive Era 0 1 1 43 0 1 3 144
Local Administration and Racial Inequality in Federal Program Access: Insights from New Deal Work Relief 0 0 18 18 1 1 15 15
Markets, Governments, and the Institutional Structure of Social Welfare Expenditures in the United States and Sweden in the 20th Century 0 0 0 33 0 2 3 19
Migration Creation, Diversion, and Retention: New Deal Grants and Migration: 1935-1940 0 0 0 58 0 0 2 470
Migration Creation, Diversion, and Retention: New Deal Grants and Migration: 1935-1940 0 0 0 34 0 0 1 244
New Evidence on Redlining by Federal Housing Programs in the 1930s 0 0 2 16 0 0 4 33
New Evidence on Redlining by Federal Housing Programs in the 1930s 0 0 0 66 0 1 8 113
New Multi-City Estimates of the Changes in Home Values, 1920-1940 0 0 0 46 0 0 0 79
Operations of "Unfettered" Labor Markets at the Turn of the Century 0 0 0 77 0 0 0 1,067
Politics, Relief, and Reform: The Transformation of America's Social Welfare System during the New Deal 0 0 0 260 1 3 3 2,348
Relief During the Great Depression in Australia and America 1 2 4 131 5 7 12 636
Rising Burdens of Proofs and The Grand Bargain of Workers’ Compensation Laws 1 2 2 8 1 2 3 25
Rule of Law in Labor Relations, 1898-1940 0 0 0 27 0 0 1 35
Safety Nets and Social Welfare Expenditures in World Economic History 0 0 1 49 0 1 2 40
Social Insurance and Public Assistance in the Twentieth-Century United States: 2019 Presidential Address for the Economic History Association 0 1 1 54 0 1 2 82
Social Welfare Expenditures in the United States and the Nordic Countries: 1900-2003 0 0 0 61 0 1 5 229
Striking at the Roots of Crime: The Impact of Social Welfare Spending on Crime During the Great Depression 0 1 2 296 0 2 7 3,414
The Adoption of Workers' Compensation in the United States 1900-1930 1 2 2 265 1 3 12 2,256
The Dynamics of Relief Spending and the Private Urban Labor Market During the New Deal 0 0 0 33 0 0 0 188
The Effect of Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets: American Cities During the Great Depression 0 0 0 177 0 1 6 1,825
The HOLC Maps: How Race and Poverty Influenced Real Estate Professionals’ Evaluation of Lending Risk in the 1930s 0 0 2 31 1 3 23 116
The Impact of New Deal Expenditures on Local Economic Activity: An Examination of Retail Sales, 1929-1939 0 1 1 316 0 1 3 2,384
The Impact of World War II Army Service on Income and Mobility in the 1960s by Ethnoracial Group 0 11 11 11 0 9 12 12
The Influence of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation on Housing Markets During the 1930s 0 0 0 27 0 0 0 288
The Irony of Reform: Did Large Employers Subvert Workplace Safety Reform, 1869 to 1930? 0 0 0 51 0 1 1 355
The Political Economy of Workers' Compensation Benefit Levels, 1910-1930 0 0 0 127 0 1 1 2,114
The Rise of American Minimum Wages, 1912-1968 0 0 1 54 0 1 4 87
The Rise of American Minimum Wages, 1912-1968 0 1 1 18 0 2 5 38
The Welfare of Children During the Great Depression 1 2 4 661 3 12 28 11,181
The labour markets for male and female salaried employees and production workers during and after three crises: World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 14
U.S. Monetary and Fiscal Policy in the 1930s 0 1 2 169 0 1 3 613
Welfare Spending and Mortality Rates for the Elderly Before the Social Security Era 0 0 0 62 1 2 2 381
What Was New About the New Deal? 0 0 0 131 0 0 3 218
Total Working Papers 6 32 72 5,192 22 86 254 47,549


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A PATCHWORK SAFETY NET: A SURVEY OF CLIOMETRIC STUDIES OF INCOME MAINTENANCE PROGRAMS IN THE UNITED STATES IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY 0 0 0 12 1 2 4 162
Agricultural policy, migration, and malaria in the United States in the 1930s 0 0 0 9 0 1 1 112
Are Estimates of Sex Discrimination by Employers Robust? The Use of Never-Marrieds 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 360
Births, Deaths, and New Deal Relief during the Great Depression 0 0 3 366 1 4 27 2,710
Black Coal Miners in America: Race, Class, and Community Conflict, 1780-1980. By Ronald L. Lewis. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1987. Pp. xv, 239. $25.00 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 62
Book Review: Income and Social Security and Substandard Working Conditions: Socializing Security: Progressive-Era Economists and the Origins of American Social Policy 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 5
Can Competition among Employers Reduce Governmental Discrimination? Coal Companies and Segregated Schools in West Virginia in the Early 1900s 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 245
Can the New Deal's three Rs be rehabilitated? A program-by-program, county-by-county analysis 0 0 4 127 1 4 17 950
Coal Towns: Life, Work, and Culture in Company Towns of Southern Appalachia, 1880–1960. By Crandall A. Shifflett. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1991. Pp. xx, 259. $34.95 0 0 0 17 0 0 1 97
Collateral Damage: The Impact of Foreclosures on New Home Mortgage Lending in the 1930s 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 18
Comparisons of Weekly Hours over the Past Century and the Importance of Work-Sharing Policies in the 1930s 0 0 0 25 0 1 6 177
Convicts, Coal, and the Banner Mine Tragedy. By Robert David Ward and William Warren Rogers. University: University of Alabama Press, 1987. Pp. x, 159. $19.95 0 0 0 6 0 0 1 39
Debt peonage in postbellum Georgia 0 0 1 47 0 1 4 374
Did Coal Miners “Owe Their Souls to the Company Store”? Theory and Evidence from the Early 1900s 0 0 2 41 0 0 2 134
Did Inequality in Farm Sizes Lead to Suppression of Banking and Credit in the Late Nineteenth Century? 0 0 3 9 1 3 9 44
Did New Deal Grant Programs Stimulate Local Economies? A Study of Federal Grants and Retail Sales During the Great Depression 0 0 2 264 2 2 8 1,025
Did Workers Pay for the Passage of Workers' Compensation Laws? 0 2 9 68 1 3 10 394
Did the New Deal solidify the 1932 Democratic realignment? 0 0 0 11 1 2 5 158
Discrimination on Nonwage Margins: Safety in the West Virginia Coal Industry, 1906-1925 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 96
Discrimination, Migration, and Economic Outcomes: Evidence from World War I 1 1 4 4 5 15 50 50
Economic crisis and the demise of a popular contractual form: Building & Loans in the 1930s 0 0 0 6 0 0 2 52
Effects of New Deal Spending and the downturns of the 1930s on private labor markets in 1939/1940 0 0 1 12 0 2 5 43
Employment Conditions of Blacks in the Coal Industry, 1900–1930 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 63
Fire in the Hole: Miners and Managers in the American Coal Industry. By Curtis Seltzer. Lexington: The University of Kentucky Press, 1985. Pp. xii, 276. $28.00 0 0 0 9 0 1 1 58
Firm-specific evidence on racial wage differentials and workforce segregation in Hawaii's sugar industry 0 0 0 12 0 0 0 95
Flip the Switch: The Impact of the Rural Electrification Administration 1935–1940 1 2 4 16 2 5 12 89
Hard times in the land of plenty: The effect on income and disability later in life for people born during the great depression 0 0 2 36 0 2 6 151
Health on the Home Front: Infant Deaths and Industrial Accidents during Mobilization for World War II 0 1 1 11 0 2 2 69
Housing Markets in a Time of Crisis: A Historical Perspective 0 0 0 5 0 1 1 16
How Successful Was the New Deal? The Microeconomic Impact of New Deal Spending and Lending Policies in the 1930s 0 1 3 43 0 8 17 258
Institutional Change, Compensating Differentials, and Accident Risk in American Railroding, 1892–1945 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 22
Labor Market Effects of Workweek Restrictions: Evidence from the Great Depression 0 1 6 6 1 6 30 30
Legacy of the Ludlow Massacre: A Chapter in American Industrial Relations. By Howard M. Gitelman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988. Pp. xv, 355. $29.95 0 0 0 14 0 0 1 73
Local Economic Conditions and Fertility from the Great Depression through the Great Recession 0 0 2 32 0 0 6 75
Looking for Work, Searching for Workers: American Labor Markets During Industrialization. By Joshua L. Rosenbloom. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 208. $20.00, paper 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 84
Making Social Spending Work By Peter H. Lindert, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. pp. v+422. Hbk. ISBN: 9781108478168Hbk. £25.00 0 0 2 3 0 0 2 4
Mill & Mine: The CF & I in the Twentieth Century. By H. Lee Scamehorn · Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1992. 247 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $37.50. ISBN 0-8032-4214-X 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3
Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism Since the New Deal. By Sanford Jacoby. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 345. $35.00 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 41
More Deadly than War: Pacific Coast Logging, 1827–1981. By Andrew Mason Prouty. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1985. Pp. xxvii, 252. $30.00 0 0 0 25 0 0 0 175
Narrowing the Black-White Gap in Child Literacy in 1910: The Roles of School Inputs and Family Inputs 0 1 1 70 0 2 4 607
New Evidence on Redlining by Federal Housing Programs in the 1930s 0 1 3 3 0 2 11 11
New deal banking reforms and Keynesian welfare state capitalism – By Ellen D. Russell 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 55
New deal or no deal in the Cotton South: The effect of the AAA on the agricultural labor structure 0 2 3 32 0 3 7 199
Nonfatal Accident Compensation and the Common Law at the Turn of the Century 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 177
Operations of "Unfettered" Labor Markets: Exit and Voice in American Labor Markets at the Turn of the Century 0 1 1 104 1 3 6 466
Origins of American Health Insurance: A History of Industrial Sickness Funds. By John. E. Murray. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 313. $40 0 0 0 44 0 0 2 195
Out of the Crucible: Black Steelworkers in Western Pennsylvania, 1875–1980. By Dennis C. Dickerson. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986. Pp. xiv, 323. $39.50 cloth, $12.95 paper 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 55
Precautionary Saving, Insurance, and the Origins of Workers' Compensation 0 0 2 75 0 1 8 410
Price V. Fishback, Review of Werner Troesken's water, race and disease, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (2004) ISBN 0-262-20148-8 pp. xvii, 251 0 0 0 58 0 1 1 235
Relief During the Great Depression in Australia and America 0 0 0 7 1 2 2 59
Safety First: Technology, Labor, and Business in the Building of American Work Safety, 1870–1939. By Mark Aldrich. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. Pp. xx, 415. $49.95 0 0 0 10 0 0 1 53
Second World War spending and local economic activity in US counties, 1939–58 0 0 1 32 0 0 3 91
Segregation in Job Hierarchies: West Virginia Coal Mining, 1906–1932 0 0 0 4 0 0 2 52
Social Insurance and Public Assistance in the Twentieth-Century United States 0 0 0 3 0 1 1 29
Striking at the Roots of Crime: The Impact of Welfare Spending on Crime during the Great Depression 0 0 0 26 0 1 10 227
The Adoption of Workers' Compensation in the United States, 1900-1930 0 0 0 10 1 3 12 1,118
The Business of Benevolence: Industrial Paternalism in Progressive America. By Andrea Tone. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997. Pp. xxi, 264. $39.95 0 0 0 12 0 0 0 50
The Distribution of the Income in the Great Depression: Preliminary State Estimates 0 0 1 15 0 0 2 59
The Durable Experiment: State Insurance of Workers' Compensation Risk in the Early Twentieth Century 0 0 0 4 0 1 2 38
The Dynamics of Relief Spending and the Private Urban Labor Market During the New Deal 0 0 0 28 0 0 2 181
The Economics of Company Housing: Historical Perspectives from the Coal Fields 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 215
The Effect of Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets:American Cities during the Great Depression 0 1 3 293 0 5 13 1,269
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 0 0 116
The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression. By Amity Shlaes. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2007. Pp. x, 464. $26.95 0 0 0 49 0 0 0 159
The HOLC Maps: How Race and Poverty Influenced Real Estate Professionals’ Evaluation of Lending Risk in the 1930s 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 5
The Impact of Institutional Change on Compensating Wage Differentials for Accident Risk: South Korea, 1984-1990 0 0 0 45 1 2 2 180
The Impact of World War II on the Demand for Female Workers in Manufacturing 0 0 3 44 0 0 7 127
The Impact of the New Deal on Black and White Infant Mortality in the South 0 0 1 59 0 0 3 666
The Influence of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation on Housing Markets During the 1930s 0 0 1 17 1 2 4 227
The Kingdom of Coal: Work, Enterprise and Ethnic Communities in the Mine Fields. By Donald L. Miller and Richard E. Sharpless. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985. Pp. xxii, 360. $35.00 cloth, $17.95 paper 0 0 0 5 0 0 1 54
The Multiplier for Federal Spending in the States During the Great Depression 1 1 8 74 1 1 13 197
The New Deal, Race, and Home Ownership in the 1920s and 1930s 0 0 0 33 0 0 0 335
The Political Economy of Workers' Compensation Benefit Levels, 1910-1930 0 1 1 18 0 2 2 141
The Quality of Services in Company Towns: Sanitation in Coal Towns During the 1920s 0 0 0 2 0 1 1 50
The Rise of American Minimum Wages, 1912–1968 0 3 3 13 0 8 12 76
The impact of New Deal expenditures on mobility during the Great Depression 0 0 2 125 0 0 3 533
The rich palette of the economic history curriculum 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 3
US monetary and fiscal policy in the 1930s 0 0 2 64 1 1 8 373
Welfare spending and mortality rates for the elderly before the Social Security era 0 0 0 16 0 2 3 217
Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America's Bloody Coal Industry. By Priscilla Long. New York: Paragon House, 1989. Pp. xxv, 420. $24.95 0 0 0 7 0 0 4 62
Workplace safety during the progressive era: Fatal accidents in bituminous coal mining, 1912-1923 0 1 1 116 0 2 3 1,108
“Square Deal” or Raw Deal? Market Compensation for Workplace Disamenities, 1884–1903 0 0 0 9 0 0 2 43
Total Journal Articles 3 20 86 2,833 23 117 397 19,136


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A Prelude to the Welfare State 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 73
A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers' Compensation 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 338
Government and the American Economy 0 0 0 0 2 5 14 90
Housing and Mortgage Markets in Historical Perspective 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 224
Soft Coal, Hard Choices: The Economic Welfare of Bituminous Coal Miners, 1890-1930 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 273
The Microeconomics of New Deal Policy 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 125
Well Worth Saving 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 59
Well Worth Saving: How the New Deal Safeguarded Home Ownership 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 93
Total Books 0 0 0 0 2 7 40 1,275


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An HOLC Primer 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 7
Appendix: Walking through the Analysis of the Impact of the HOLC 0 0 0 4 0 1 1 18
Appendixes 0 0 0 4 0 1 1 28
Cliometrics and the Great Depression 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 5
Cliometrics and the Great Depression 0 0 0 0 0 1 4 4
Coalition Formation and the Adoption of Workers? Compensation: The Case of Missouri, 1911 to 1926 0 0 0 14 0 1 3 53
Compensation for Accidents before Workers' Compensation 0 0 2 22 0 1 5 54
Conclusion 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 12
Did the New Deal Solidify the 1932 Democratic Realignment? 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 52
Epilogue. Lessons from the Origins of Workers' Compensation 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 33
Framing the Issues 0 0 1 13 0 0 1 41
Health and Safety vs. Freedom of Contract: The Tortured Path of Wage and Hours Limits Through the State Legislatures and the Courts 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 4
Inequality and the Safety Net in American Cities throughout the Income Distribution, 1929–1940 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 23
Information and the Impact of Climate and Weather on Mortality Rates during the Great Depression 0 0 1 30 1 1 2 206
Introduction to "Housing and Mortgage Markets in Historical Perspective" 0 0 0 42 0 0 2 133
Introduction to "Well Worth Saving: How the New Deal Safeguarded Home Ownership" 0 1 1 6 1 2 2 22
Introduction: Why Study the Origins of Workers' Compensation? 0 0 0 29 0 1 2 73
New Deal Funding: Estimates of Federal Grants and Loans across States by Year, 1930–1940 0 0 2 10 1 1 4 41
New Deal or No Deal in the Cotton South: The Effect of the AAA on the Agriculture Labor Structure 0 0 0 0 1 4 14 151
New Multicity Estimates of the Changes in Home Values, 1920-1940 0 0 0 20 0 0 1 79
North America 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3
Politics, Relief, and Reform. Roosevelt's Efforts to Control Corruption and Political Manipulation during the New Deal 0 0 0 36 0 0 0 232
Pressures for Government Action 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 9
References 0 0 0 4 0 1 1 32
Repairing Mortgage and Housing Markets 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 10
Teaching American Economic History 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 63
The Battles over Benefit Levels, 1910-1930 0 0 0 4 1 1 1 43
The Borrowers' Good Deal 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 15
The Cost to Taxpayers and Subsidies to the Housing Market 0 0 0 3 0 2 2 15
The Economic Impact of the Switch to Workers' Compensation 0 0 2 18 0 0 2 65
The Economic Rationale for the HOLC 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 9
The Effects of Weather Shocks on Crop Prices in Unfettered Markets: The United States Prior to the Farm Programs, 1895-1932 0 0 0 39 0 1 3 136
The Fractious Disputes over State Insurance 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 35
The Irony of Reform. Did Large Employers Subvert Workplace Safety Reform, 1869 to 1930? 0 0 0 14 0 1 2 85
The Lenders' Good Deal 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 7
The Mortgage Crisis 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 6
The Patchwork Mortgage Market in the 1920s 0 0 0 6 0 0 3 16
The Political Process of Adopting Workers' Compensation 0 0 0 8 0 0 0 35
The Timing of Workers' Compensation's Enactment in the United 0 0 1 9 0 0 1 34
World War II and US Economic Performance 0 0 0 1 2 7 9 44
Total Chapters 0 1 10 384 8 29 80 1,933


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