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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 8 11 686
Agricultural Decline and the Secular Rise in Male Retirement Rates 0 0 0 38 2 5 7 854
American Living Standards, 1888-1994: Evidence From Consumer Expenditures 0 0 0 76 7 10 11 772
American Living Standards: Evidence from Recreational Expenditures 0 0 0 102 3 6 9 1,367
Becoming Oldest-Old: Evidence from Historical U.S. Data 0 0 0 47 6 6 6 351
Changes in the Value of Life: 1940-1980 0 0 0 192 8 10 10 1,353
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 3 5 10 34
Cowards and Heroes: Group Loyalty in the American Civil War 0 1 1 159 3 14 19 1,414
Death and the Media: Asymmetries in Infectious Disease Reporting During the Health Transition 0 0 0 61 1 2 3 313
Displacing the Family: Union Army Pensions and Elderly Living Arrange- ments 0 0 0 31 1 4 5 378
Economy, the Ghost in Your Gene, and the Escape from Premature Mortality 0 0 13 13 6 14 35 35
Electricity Consumption and Durable Housing: Understanding Cohort Effects 0 0 3 51 2 7 14 422
Energy Conservation "Nudges" and Environmentalist Ideology: Evidence from a Randomized Residential Electricity Field Experiment 1 3 4 198 3 12 17 1,306
Equality Before the Law in U.S. Civil War Courts-Martial 0 0 12 12 3 6 16 16
Explaining the Changing Dynamics of Unemployment: Evidence from Civil War Records 0 0 0 11 6 8 9 1,374
Forging a New Identity: The Costs and Benefits of Diversity in Civil War Combat Units for Black Slaves and Freemen 0 0 0 145 3 7 11 2,989
From Mill Town to Board Room: The Rise of Women's Paid Labor 0 0 0 171 7 8 9 1,107
Health Shocks of the Father and Longevity of the Children's Children 0 0 0 17 10 18 20 45
Health and Labor Force Participation of Older Men, 1900-1991 0 0 0 44 8 9 9 275
Health and the Economy in the United States, from 1750 to the Present 0 0 0 134 14 24 28 275
Health, Education and Income in the United States, 1820-2000 0 0 0 128 3 7 10 125
Health, Income, and Retirement: Evidence from Nineteenth Century America 0 0 0 24 0 1 9 210
Health, Stress, and Social Networks: Evidence from Union Army Veterans 0 0 0 44 3 8 9 187
Hours of Work and the Fair Labor Standards Act: A Study of Retail and Wholesale Trade, 1938-1950 0 0 0 135 4 10 11 4,197
In Memorium: Robert W. Fogel 0 0 0 3 1 2 2 56
Leaders: Privilege, Sacrifice, Opportunity and Personnel Economics in the American Civil War 0 0 0 31 1 5 8 126
Less of a Luxury: The Rise of Recreation since 1888 0 0 0 138 5 9 10 845
Long-Term Declines in Disability Among Older Men: Medical Care, Public Health, and Occupational Change 0 0 0 36 5 9 9 394
Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States 0 0 1 463 25 28 36 3,445
Long-Term declines in Disability Among Older Men: Medical Care, Public Health, and Occupational Change 0 0 0 0 1 3 4 156
Overweight Grandsons and Grandfathers' Starvation Exposure 0 0 0 18 17 40 43 65
Persistent Social Networks: Civil War Veterans who Fought Together Co-Locate in Later Life 0 0 0 93 0 3 6 136
Power Couples: Changes in the Locational Choice of the College Educated, 1940-1990 0 0 0 281 3 12 14 1,765
Race and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from Union Army Veterans 0 0 0 29 4 5 8 208
Race and Pregnancy Outcomes in the Twentieth Century: A Long-Term Comparison 0 0 0 86 1 7 11 619
Scarring and Mortality Selection Among Civil War POWs: A Long-Term Mortality, Morbidity and Socioeconomic Follow-Up 0 0 1 8 2 4 10 96
Shame and Ostracism: Union Army Deserters Leave Home 0 0 0 49 5 10 16 737
Surviving Andersonville: The Benefits of Social Networks in POW Camps 0 0 0 80 3 13 13 703
The Economy, the Ghost in Your Gene and the Escape from Premature Mortality 0 0 18 18 2 5 21 22
The Economy, the Ghost in Your Gene, and the Escape from Premature Mortality 0 1 4 4 4 8 13 15
The Measure of Man and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from the Gould Sample 0 0 0 22 6 8 9 430
The Political Economy of State Provided Health Insurance in the Progressive Era: Evidence from California 0 0 0 147 1 2 6 1,522
The Rise of Retirement Among African Americans: Wealth and Social Security Effects 0 0 0 35 4 9 12 269
The Unequal Work Day: A Long-Term View 0 0 0 60 2 3 3 800
The Wage and the Length of the Work Day: From the 1890s to 1991 0 1 1 283 2 4 5 1,494
Understanding Mid-Life and Older Age Mortality Declines: Evidence from Union Army Veterans 0 0 0 37 4 5 6 603
Understanding the Decline in Social Capital, 1952-1998 0 0 0 405 4 10 16 1,661
Understanding the Solar Home Price Premium: Electricity Generation and "Green" Social Status 0 0 0 61 6 6 8 623
Understanding the Twentieth Century Decline in Chronic Conditions Among Older Men 0 0 0 45 1 5 6 546
Unequal at Birth: A Long-Term Comparison of Income and Birth Weight 0 0 0 40 3 5 9 371
Union Army Veterans, All Grown Up 0 0 0 0 9 14 15 44
Union Army Veterans, All Grown Up 0 0 0 26 6 10 16 51
Wartime Health Shocks and the Postwar Socioeconomic Status and Mortality of Union Army Veterans and their Children 0 0 0 51 2 9 14 62
What is Cliometrica 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 99
What is ‘Cliometrica' ? 0 0 0 0 4 4 4 9
Why Has California's Residential Electricity Consumption Been So Flat since the 1980s?: A Microeconometric Approach 0 0 1 91 6 9 16 812
Total Working Papers 1 6 60 4,554 248 476 670 38,869


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A house of her own: old age assistance and the living arrangements of older nonmarried women 1 1 1 56 2 4 6 422
A theory of technophysio evolution, with some implications for forecasting population, health care costs, and pension costs 0 0 0 26 4 6 8 143
Aggregation, rank, and some historical Engel curves 0 0 0 13 2 3 6 62
Agricultural Decline and the Secular Rise in Male Retirement Rates 0 0 0 3 6 7 9 70
Changes in the Value of Life, 1940--1980 0 1 2 187 8 15 54 1,712
Changing chronic disease rates and longterm declines in functional limitation among older men 0 0 0 0 2 4 5 30
Children and grandchildren of Union Army veterans: New data collections to study the persistence of longevity and socioeconomic status across generations 1 1 1 1 4 5 9 9
Cowards and Heroes: Group Loyalty in the American Civil War 1 1 1 182 7 10 24 2,076
Death and the Media: Infectious Disease Reporting During the Health Transition 0 0 0 21 3 6 11 563
Declining Mortality Inequality within Cities during the Health Transition 0 1 3 69 4 8 17 357
Deserters, Social Norms, and Migration 0 0 1 37 2 7 15 349
Displacing the Family: Union Army Pensions and Elderly Living Arrangements 0 0 1 30 9 12 16 546
Do liberal home owners consume less electricity? A test of the voluntary restraint hypothesis 0 0 0 39 2 2 5 255
ENERGY CONSERVATION “NUDGES” AND ENVIRONMENTALIST IDEOLOGY: EVIDENCE FROM A RANDOMIZED RESIDENTIAL ELECTRICITY FIELD EXPERIMENT 1 2 5 211 4 7 23 1,024
Electricity Consumption and Durable Housing: Understanding Cohort Effects 0 0 0 50 6 8 19 469
Erratum to: A theory of technophysio, with come implications for forecasting population, health care costs, and pension costs 0 0 0 5 2 3 4 29
Estimating Real Income in the United States from 1888 to 1994: Correcting CPI Bias Using Engel Curves 0 0 0 107 2 4 8 560
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 3 4 4 38
Forging a New Identity: The Costs and Benefits of Diversity in Civil War Combat Units for Black Slaves and Freemen 0 0 0 35 10 13 17 694
From Mill Town to Board Room: The Rise of Women's Paid Labor 0 0 0 164 5 10 17 951
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 3 4 4 36
Health and Labor Force Participation of Older Men, 1900–1991 0 0 0 12 3 7 10 179
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 2 3 4 35
Health and the Economy in the United States from 1750 to the Present 0 1 1 107 7 16 27 386
Health, Income, and Retirement: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century America 0 0 0 2 2 2 3 104
Health, wartime stress, and unit cohesion: Evidence from Union Army veterans 0 0 1 6 6 8 10 48
Height, Weight, Wartime Stress, and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from the Union Army Records 0 0 0 80 2 8 10 389
Hours of Work and the Fair Labor Standards Act: A Study of Retail and Wholesale Trade, 1938–1950 0 0 2 4 3 5 9 216
Leaders: Privilege, Sacrifice, Opportunity, and Personnel Economics in the American Civil War 0 0 0 3 2 4 5 32
Overweight grandsons and grandfathers’ starvation exposure 0 0 0 0 8 12 14 18
Pensions and Retirement Among Black Union Army Veterans 0 0 0 4 1 2 4 45
Pensions and Retirement: Evidence from Union Army Veterans 0 0 1 91 4 7 12 824
Persistent social networks: Civil war veterans who fought together co-locate in later life 0 0 0 10 3 6 10 116
Power Couples: Changes in the Locational Choice of the College Educated, 1940–1990 0 1 6 441 6 10 27 2,196
Predicting Older Age Mortality Trends 0 0 0 16 1 4 4 102
Race and Pregnancy Outcomes in the Twentieth Century: A Long-Term Comparison 0 0 0 12 1 3 5 154
Scarring and Mortality Selection Among Civil War POWs: A Long-Term Mortality, Morbidity, and Socioeconomic Follow-Up 0 0 0 3 3 4 9 90
Surviving Andersonville: The Benefits of Social Networks in POW Camps 0 0 1 73 5 5 11 728
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 1 117
The Evolution of Retirement: Summary of a Research Project 0 0 0 66 3 3 8 232
The Measure of Man and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from the Gould Sample 0 0 0 11 2 3 8 120
The Rising Price of Nonmarket Goods 0 0 0 80 3 5 6 398
The Unequal Work Day: A Long-Term View 0 0 0 39 4 8 11 294
The Wage and the Length of the Work Day: From the 1890s to 1991 0 0 0 153 2 4 13 714
Understanding mid-life and older age mortality declines: evidence from Union Army veterans 0 0 0 11 4 7 8 161
Understanding the American Decline in Social Capital, 1952–1998 0 0 0 38 4 9 14 748
Understanding the Solar Home price premium: Electricity generation and “Green” social status 0 1 2 107 4 7 20 811
Understanding the twentieth-century decline in chronic conditions among older men 0 0 0 4 5 12 16 106
Unequal at Birth: A Long-Term Comparison of Income and Birth Weight 0 0 0 17 2 6 13 137
Union Army veterans, all grown up 0 0 0 0 3 6 7 25
Wartime health shocks and the postwar socioeconomic status and mortality of union army veterans and their children 0 0 0 1 1 2 8 20
What is ‘Cliometrica’? 0 0 1 117 7 10 15 364
Total Journal Articles 4 10 30 2,773 193 330 603 20,304


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Economics of Health and Mortality 0 0 0 0 1 3 3 29
Health and Labor Force Participation over the Life Cycle: Evidence from the Past 0 0 0 0 2 5 6 143
Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War 0 0 0 0 7 13 14 296
The Evolution of Retirement 0 0 0 0 9 13 16 92
The Evolution of Retirement: An American Economic History, 1880-1990 0 0 0 0 4 6 12 378
Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth: Geography, Institutions, and the Knowledge Economy 0 0 0 0 3 5 9 228
Total Books 0 0 0 0 26 45 60 1,166


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Appendix A: Union Army Pensions and Civil War Records 0 0 0 19 2 2 6 83
Building the Armies 0 0 0 0 6 7 7 45
Conclusion 0 0 0 5 3 4 4 46
Data Appendix 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 39
Demand for Private and State-Provided Health Insurance in the 1910s: Evidence from California 0 0 0 0 2 3 4 8
Displacing the Family 0 0 0 19 4 5 5 47
Health, Education, and Income in the United States, 1820–2000 0 0 0 21 4 6 6 135
Heroes and Cowards 0 0 0 0 4 5 5 121
Income and Retirement 0 0 0 30 4 5 7 77
Introduction to "Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth: Geography, Institutions, and the Knowledge Economy 0 0 0 17 1 3 3 99
Learning from the Past 0 0 0 0 4 7 8 65
Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States 0 0 2 73 5 11 16 262
Looking to the Future 0 0 0 17 1 1 1 34
Loyalty and Sacrifice 0 0 0 0 3 5 6 122
POW Camp Survivors 0 0 0 0 4 4 6 68
Pensions and Politics 0 0 1 25 2 3 4 44
Preface 0 0 0 18 4 6 7 102
Preface 0 0 0 0 3 3 4 58
References 0 0 0 16 0 3 4 40
Slaves Become Freemen 0 0 0 0 3 4 6 60
The Evolution of Retirement 1 1 6 85 9 15 25 255
The Health of Older Men in the Past 0 0 0 6 3 6 6 45
The Homecoming of Heroes and Cowards 0 0 0 0 4 8 10 61
The Older Worker 0 0 0 24 1 1 1 79
The Problem of Old Age 0 0 0 41 2 3 4 156
The Rise of the Leisured Class 0 0 0 24 3 4 4 89
Why the US Civil War 0 0 0 0 6 8 8 44
Work and Disease 0 0 0 22 2 5 6 49
Total Chapters 1 1 9 462 90 138 176 2,333


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