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A House of Her Own: Old Age Assistance and the Living Arrangements of Older Nonmarried Women 0 0 1 51 2 3 12 689
Agricultural Decline and the Secular Rise in Male Retirement Rates 0 0 0 38 0 1 8 855
American Living Standards, 1888-1994: Evidence From Consumer Expenditures 0 0 0 76 5 8 19 780
American Living Standards: Evidence from Recreational Expenditures 0 0 0 102 1 2 11 1,369
Becoming Oldest-Old: Evidence from Historical U.S. Data 0 0 0 47 1 2 8 353
Changes in the Value of Life: 1940-1980 0 0 0 192 3 3 13 1,356
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 0 3 11 37
Cowards and Heroes: Group Loyalty in the American Civil War 1 1 2 160 6 11 28 1,425
Death and the Media: Asymmetries in Infectious Disease Reporting During the Health Transition 0 0 0 61 5 10 13 323
Displacing the Family: Union Army Pensions and Elderly Living Arrange- ments 0 0 0 31 3 4 9 382
Economy, the Ghost in Your Gene, and the Escape from Premature Mortality 0 0 0 13 4 6 25 41
Electricity Consumption and Durable Housing: Understanding Cohort Effects 0 0 2 51 1 1 14 423
Energy Conservation "Nudges" and Environmentalist Ideology: Evidence from a Randomized Residential Electricity Field Experiment 1 1 5 199 5 8 24 1,314
Equality Before the Law in U.S. Civil War Courts-Martial 0 0 12 12 1 1 17 17
Explaining the Changing Dynamics of Unemployment: Evidence from Civil War Records 0 0 0 11 2 3 11 1,377
Forging a New Identity: The Costs and Benefits of Diversity in Civil War Combat Units for Black Slaves and Freemen 0 0 0 145 5 10 20 2,999
From Mill Town to Board Room: The Rise of Women's Paid Labor 0 0 0 171 3 4 12 1,111
Health Shocks of the Father and Longevity of the Children's Children 0 0 0 17 0 1 20 46
Health and Labor Force Participation of Older Men, 1900-1991 0 0 0 44 2 3 12 278
Health and the Economy in the United States, from 1750 to the Present 0 0 0 134 3 6 34 281
Health, Education and Income in the United States, 1820-2000 0 0 0 128 3 4 12 129
Health, Income, and Retirement: Evidence from Nineteenth Century America 0 0 0 24 4 5 10 215
Health, Stress, and Social Networks: Evidence from Union Army Veterans 0 0 0 44 1 1 10 188
Hours of Work and the Fair Labor Standards Act: A Study of Retail and Wholesale Trade, 1938-1950 0 0 0 135 2 4 14 4,201
In Memorium: Robert W. Fogel 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 56
Leaders: Privilege, Sacrifice, Opportunity and Personnel Economics in the American Civil War 0 0 0 31 2 2 9 128
Less of a Luxury: The Rise of Recreation since 1888 0 0 0 138 6 9 18 854
Long-Term Declines in Disability Among Older Men: Medical Care, Public Health, and Occupational Change 0 0 0 36 3 5 14 399
Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States 0 0 1 463 2 15 45 3,460
Long-Term declines in Disability Among Older Men: Medical Care, Public Health, and Occupational Change 0 0 0 0 1 2 6 158
Overweight Grandsons and Grandfathers' Starvation Exposure 0 0 0 18 0 7 49 72
Persistent Social Networks: Civil War Veterans who Fought Together Co-Locate in Later Life 0 0 0 93 1 2 8 138
Power Couples: Changes in the Locational Choice of the College Educated, 1940-1990 0 0 0 281 3 5 19 1,770
Race and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from Union Army Veterans 0 0 0 29 2 6 12 214
Race and Pregnancy Outcomes in the Twentieth Century: A Long-Term Comparison 0 0 0 86 4 6 14 625
Scarring and Mortality Selection Among Civil War POWs: A Long-Term Mortality, Morbidity and Socioeconomic Follow-Up 0 0 0 8 2 3 11 99
Shame and Ostracism: Union Army Deserters Leave Home 0 1 1 50 3 4 16 741
Surviving Andersonville: The Benefits of Social Networks in POW Camps 0 0 0 80 0 2 15 705
The Economy, the Ghost in Your Gene and the Escape from Premature Mortality 0 0 0 18 0 4 11 26
The Economy, the Ghost in Your Gene, and the Escape from Premature Mortality 0 0 2 4 2 5 16 20
The Measure of Man and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from the Gould Sample 0 0 0 22 1 6 15 436
The Political Economy of State Provided Health Insurance in the Progressive Era: Evidence from California 0 0 0 147 5 8 14 1,530
The Rise of Retirement Among African Americans: Wealth and Social Security Effects 0 0 0 35 2 2 13 271
The Unequal Work Day: A Long-Term View 0 0 0 60 2 2 5 802
The Wage and the Length of the Work Day: From the 1890s to 1991 0 0 1 283 2 5 10 1,499
Understanding Mid-Life and Older Age Mortality Declines: Evidence from Union Army Veterans 0 0 0 37 2 6 12 609
Understanding the Decline in Social Capital, 1952-1998 0 0 0 405 6 8 22 1,669
Understanding the Solar Home Price Premium: Electricity Generation and "Green" Social Status 0 0 0 61 2 2 8 625
Understanding the Twentieth Century Decline in Chronic Conditions Among Older Men 0 0 0 45 3 4 9 550
Unequal at Birth: A Long-Term Comparison of Income and Birth Weight 0 0 0 40 4 4 9 375
Union Army Veterans, All Grown Up 0 0 0 26 6 7 21 58
Union Army Veterans, All Grown Up 0 0 0 0 1 1 16 45
Wartime Health Shocks and the Postwar Socioeconomic Status and Mortality of Union Army Veterans and their Children 0 0 0 51 0 0 14 62
What is Cliometrica 0 0 0 0 1 1 4 100
What is ‘Cliometrica' ? 0 0 0 0 2 4 8 13
Why Has California's Residential Electricity Consumption Been So Flat since the 1980s?: A Microeconometric Approach 0 0 0 91 4 6 16 818
Total Working Papers 2 3 27 4,557 136 247 828 39,116


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A house of her own: old age assistance and the living arrangements of older nonmarried women 0 0 1 56 1 2 7 424
A theory of technophysio evolution, with some implications for forecasting population, health care costs, and pension costs 0 0 0 26 1 3 11 146
Aggregation, rank, and some historical Engel curves 0 0 0 13 4 5 10 67
Agricultural Decline and the Secular Rise in Male Retirement Rates 0 0 0 3 2 2 11 72
Changes in the Value of Life, 1940--1980 0 0 2 187 0 3 54 1,715
Changing chronic disease rates and longterm declines in functional limitation among older men 0 0 0 0 3 6 11 36
Children and grandchildren of Union Army veterans: New data collections to study the persistence of longevity and socioeconomic status across generations 0 0 1 1 1 2 11 11
Cowards and Heroes: Group Loyalty in the American Civil War 1 1 2 183 9 11 29 2,087
Death and the Media: Infectious Disease Reporting During the Health Transition 0 0 0 21 1 2 12 565
Declining Mortality Inequality within Cities during the Health Transition 0 0 2 69 1 2 15 359
Deserters, Social Norms, and Migration 0 0 0 37 1 6 18 355
Displacing the Family: Union Army Pensions and Elderly Living Arrangements 0 0 1 30 1 2 18 548
Do liberal home owners consume less electricity? A test of the voluntary restraint hypothesis 0 0 0 39 4 6 9 261
ENERGY CONSERVATION “NUDGES” AND ENVIRONMENTALIST IDEOLOGY: EVIDENCE FROM A RANDOMIZED RESIDENTIAL ELECTRICITY FIELD EXPERIMENT 0 0 4 211 3 6 23 1,030
Electricity Consumption and Durable Housing: Understanding Cohort Effects 0 0 0 50 0 0 17 469
Erratum to: A theory of technophysio, with come implications for forecasting population, health care costs, and pension costs 0 0 0 5 2 2 6 31
Estimating Real Income in the United States from 1888 to 1994: Correcting CPI Bias Using Engel Curves 0 0 0 107 4 8 15 568
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 2 6 40
Forging a New Identity: The Costs and Benefits of Diversity in Civil War Combat Units for Black Slaves and Freemen 0 0 0 35 9 10 25 704
From Mill Town to Board Room: The Rise of Women's Paid Labor 0 0 0 164 3 8 19 959
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 3 7 39
Health and Labor Force Participation of Older Men, 1900–1991 0 0 0 12 2 4 14 183
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 5 36
Health and the Economy in the United States from 1750 to the Present 0 0 1 107 1 3 29 389
Health, Income, and Retirement: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century America 0 0 0 2 4 5 8 109
Health, wartime stress, and unit cohesion: Evidence from Union Army veterans 0 0 1 6 1 1 11 49
Height, Weight, Wartime Stress, and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from the Union Army Records 0 0 0 80 3 3 12 392
Hours of Work and the Fair Labor Standards Act: A Study of Retail and Wholesale Trade, 1938–1950 0 0 1 4 1 2 9 218
Leaders: Privilege, Sacrifice, Opportunity, and Personnel Economics in the American Civil War 0 0 0 3 0 1 6 33
Overweight grandsons and grandfathers’ starvation exposure 0 0 0 0 2 6 19 24
Pensions and Retirement Among Black Union Army Veterans 0 0 0 4 2 2 5 47
Pensions and Retirement: Evidence from Union Army Veterans 0 0 1 91 4 4 15 828
Persistent social networks: Civil war veterans who fought together co-locate in later life 0 0 0 10 2 5 14 121
Power Couples: Changes in the Locational Choice of the College Educated, 1940–1990 0 1 7 442 7 13 35 2,209
Predicting Older Age Mortality Trends 0 0 0 16 1 2 6 104
Race and Pregnancy Outcomes in the Twentieth Century: A Long-Term Comparison 0 0 0 12 5 7 11 161
Scarring and Mortality Selection Among Civil War POWs: A Long-Term Mortality, Morbidity, and Socioeconomic Follow-Up 0 0 0 3 6 9 15 99
Surviving Andersonville: The Benefits of Social Networks in POW Camps 0 0 0 73 0 4 13 732
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 3 3 4 120
The Evolution of Retirement: Summary of a Research Project 0 0 0 66 3 3 9 235
The Measure of Man and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from the Gould Sample 0 0 0 11 5 5 11 125
The Rising Price of Nonmarket Goods 0 0 0 80 2 3 9 401
The Unequal Work Day: A Long-Term View 0 0 0 39 4 6 16 300
The Wage and the Length of the Work Day: From the 1890s to 1991 0 0 0 153 2 3 15 717
Understanding mid-life and older age mortality declines: evidence from Union Army veterans 0 0 0 11 3 5 12 166
Understanding the American Decline in Social Capital, 1952–1998 0 0 0 38 3 5 18 753
Understanding the Solar Home price premium: Electricity generation and “Green” social status 0 1 2 108 4 10 24 821
Understanding the twentieth-century decline in chronic conditions among older men 0 0 0 4 3 5 21 111
Unequal at Birth: A Long-Term Comparison of Income and Birth Weight 0 0 0 17 2 3 13 140
Union Army veterans, all grown up 0 0 0 0 3 5 12 30
Wartime health shocks and the postwar socioeconomic status and mortality of union army veterans and their children 0 0 0 1 0 1 9 21
What is ‘Cliometrica’? 0 0 0 117 2 5 17 369
Total Journal Articles 1 3 26 2,776 134 225 751 20,529


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Economics of Health and Mortality 0 0 0 0 3 3 6 32
Health and Labor Force Participation over the Life Cycle: Evidence from the Past 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 144
Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War 0 0 0 0 6 10 23 306
The Evolution of Retirement 0 0 0 0 1 2 17 94
The Evolution of Retirement: An American Economic History, 1880-1990 0 0 0 0 2 3 12 381
Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth: Geography, Institutions, and the Knowledge Economy 0 0 0 0 2 4 12 232
Total Books 0 0 0 0 14 23 77 1,189


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Appendix A: Union Army Pensions and Civil War Records 0 0 0 19 0 1 5 84
Building the Armies 0 0 0 0 2 2 9 47
Conclusion 0 0 0 5 1 1 5 47
Data Appendix 0 0 0 0 5 5 7 44
Demand for Private and State-Provided Health Insurance in the 1910s: Evidence from California 0 0 0 0 2 3 6 11
Displacing the Family 0 0 0 19 1 2 7 49
Health, Education, and Income in the United States, 1820–2000 0 0 0 21 0 0 6 135
Heroes and Cowards 0 0 0 0 4 4 9 125
Income and Retirement 0 0 0 30 1 2 9 79
Introduction to "Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth: Geography, Institutions, and the Knowledge Economy 0 0 0 17 6 6 9 105
Learning from the Past 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 65
Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States 0 0 1 73 4 6 21 268
Looking to the Future 0 0 0 17 0 0 1 34
Loyalty and Sacrifice 0 0 0 0 3 4 10 126
POW Camp Survivors 0 0 0 0 4 6 11 74
Pensions and Politics 0 0 1 25 1 2 6 46
Preface 0 0 0 0 2 2 6 60
Preface 0 0 0 18 0 1 8 103
References 0 0 0 16 0 2 5 42
Slaves Become Freemen 0 0 0 0 2 3 9 63
The Evolution of Retirement 0 0 4 85 2 6 27 261
The Health of Older Men in the Past 0 0 0 6 1 1 7 46
The Homecoming of Heroes and Cowards 0 0 0 0 2 2 12 63
The Older Worker 0 0 0 24 1 1 2 80
The Problem of Old Age 0 0 0 41 0 0 4 156
The Rise of the Leisured Class 0 0 0 24 0 1 5 90
Why the US Civil War 0 0 0 0 2 2 10 46
Work and Disease 0 0 0 22 0 0 6 49
Total Chapters 0 0 6 462 46 65 229 2,398


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