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A House of Her Own: Old Age Assistance and the Living Arrangements of Older Nonmarried Women 0 0 1 51 1 6 12 687
Agricultural Decline and the Secular Rise in Male Retirement Rates 0 0 0 38 1 4 8 855
American Living Standards, 1888-1994: Evidence From Consumer Expenditures 0 0 0 76 0 10 11 772
American Living Standards: Evidence from Recreational Expenditures 0 0 0 102 0 5 9 1,367
Becoming Oldest-Old: Evidence from Historical U.S. Data 0 0 0 47 1 7 7 352
Changes in the Value of Life: 1940-1980 0 0 0 192 0 9 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 1 5 10 35
Cowards and Heroes: Group Loyalty in the American Civil War 0 0 1 159 2 9 20 1,416
Death and the Media: Asymmetries in Infectious Disease Reporting During the Health Transition 0 0 0 61 4 6 7 317
Displacing the Family: Union Army Pensions and Elderly Living Arrange- ments 0 0 0 31 1 5 6 379
Economy, the Ghost in Your Gene, and the Escape from Premature Mortality 0 0 4 13 2 12 25 37
Electricity Consumption and Durable Housing: Understanding Cohort Effects 0 0 2 51 0 6 13 422
Energy Conservation "Nudges" and Environmentalist Ideology: Evidence from a Randomized Residential Electricity Field Experiment 0 2 4 198 1 8 18 1,307
Equality Before the Law in U.S. Civil War Courts-Martial 0 0 12 12 0 4 16 16
Explaining the Changing Dynamics of Unemployment: Evidence from Civil War Records 0 0 0 11 0 7 8 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 1 7 12 2,990
From Mill Town to Board Room: The Rise of Women's Paid Labor 0 0 0 171 0 7 9 1,107
Health Shocks of the Father and Longevity of the Children's Children 0 0 0 17 1 18 20 46
Health and Labor Force Participation of Older Men, 1900-1991 0 0 0 44 1 9 10 276
Health and the Economy in the United States, from 1750 to the Present 0 0 0 134 1 17 29 276
Health, Education and Income in the United States, 1820-2000 0 0 0 128 1 6 9 126
Health, Income, and Retirement: Evidence from Nineteenth Century America 0 0 0 24 1 2 9 211
Health, Stress, and Social Networks: Evidence from Union Army Veterans 0 0 0 44 0 6 9 187
Hours of Work and the Fair Labor Standards Act: A Study of Retail and Wholesale Trade, 1938-1950 0 0 0 135 0 8 11 4,197
In Memorium: Robert W. Fogel 0 0 0 3 0 1 2 56
Leaders: Privilege, Sacrifice, Opportunity and Personnel Economics in the American Civil War 0 0 0 31 0 3 7 126
Less of a Luxury: The Rise of Recreation since 1888 0 0 0 138 2 10 12 847
Long-Term Declines in Disability Among Older Men: Medical Care, Public Health, and Occupational Change 0 0 0 36 2 10 11 396
Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States 0 0 1 463 7 35 43 3,452
Long-Term declines in Disability Among Older Men: Medical Care, Public Health, and Occupational Change 0 0 0 0 1 4 5 157
Overweight Grandsons and Grandfathers' Starvation Exposure 0 0 0 18 3 41 46 68
Persistent Social Networks: Civil War Veterans who Fought Together Co-Locate in Later Life 0 0 0 93 1 3 7 137
Power Couples: Changes in the Locational Choice of the College Educated, 1940-1990 0 0 0 281 2 6 16 1,767
Race and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from Union Army Veterans 0 0 0 29 3 7 11 211
Race and Pregnancy Outcomes in the Twentieth Century: A Long-Term Comparison 0 0 0 86 1 6 10 620
Scarring and Mortality Selection Among Civil War POWs: A Long-Term Mortality, Morbidity and Socioeconomic Follow-Up 0 0 1 8 1 3 11 97
Shame and Ostracism: Union Army Deserters Leave Home 1 1 1 50 1 10 16 738
Surviving Andersonville: The Benefits of Social Networks in POW Camps 0 0 0 80 1 12 14 704
The Economy, the Ghost in Your Gene and the Escape from Premature Mortality 0 0 0 18 3 7 11 25
The Economy, the Ghost in Your Gene, and the Escape from Premature Mortality 0 1 2 4 3 9 14 18
The Measure of Man and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from the Gould Sample 0 0 0 22 1 8 10 431
The Political Economy of State Provided Health Insurance in the Progressive Era: Evidence from California 0 0 0 147 3 5 9 1,525
The Rise of Retirement Among African Americans: Wealth and Social Security Effects 0 0 0 35 0 6 11 269
The Unequal Work Day: A Long-Term View 0 0 0 60 0 2 3 800
The Wage and the Length of the Work Day: From the 1890s to 1991 0 0 1 283 1 4 6 1,495
Understanding Mid-Life and Older Age Mortality Declines: Evidence from Union Army Veterans 0 0 0 37 2 7 8 605
Understanding the Decline in Social Capital, 1952-1998 0 0 0 405 2 11 17 1,663
Understanding the Solar Home Price Premium: Electricity Generation and "Green" Social Status 0 0 0 61 0 6 8 623
Understanding the Twentieth Century Decline in Chronic Conditions Among Older Men 0 0 0 45 0 3 5 546
Unequal at Birth: A Long-Term Comparison of Income and Birth Weight 0 0 0 40 0 4 7 371
Union Army Veterans, All Grown Up 0 0 0 0 0 12 15 44
Union Army Veterans, All Grown Up 0 0 0 26 1 10 16 52
Wartime Health Shocks and the Postwar Socioeconomic Status and Mortality of Union Army Veterans and their Children 0 0 0 51 0 6 14 62
What is Cliometrica 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 99
What is ‘Cliometrica' ? 0 0 0 0 1 5 5 10
Why Has California's Residential Electricity Consumption Been So Flat since the 1980s?: A Microeconometric Approach 0 0 0 91 0 7 11 812
Total Working Papers 1 4 30 4,555 62 446 682 38,931


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A house of her own: old age assistance and the living arrangements of older nonmarried women 0 1 1 56 1 4 7 423
A theory of technophysio evolution, with some implications for forecasting population, health care costs, and pension costs 0 0 0 26 1 6 9 144
Aggregation, rank, and some historical Engel curves 0 0 0 13 1 4 6 63
Agricultural Decline and the Secular Rise in Male Retirement Rates 0 0 0 3 0 7 9 70
Changes in the Value of Life, 1940--1980 0 0 2 187 2 11 56 1,714
Changing chronic disease rates and longterm declines in functional limitation among older men 0 0 0 0 2 5 7 32
Children and grandchildren of Union Army veterans: New data collections to study the persistence of longevity and socioeconomic status across generations 0 1 1 1 0 4 9 9
Cowards and Heroes: Group Loyalty in the American Civil War 0 1 1 182 2 10 24 2,078
Death and the Media: Infectious Disease Reporting During the Health Transition 0 0 0 21 1 5 12 564
Declining Mortality Inequality within Cities during the Health Transition 0 1 3 69 1 7 17 358
Deserters, Social Norms, and Migration 0 0 1 37 4 10 18 353
Displacing the Family: Union Army Pensions and Elderly Living Arrangements 0 0 1 30 1 12 17 547
Do liberal home owners consume less electricity? A test of the voluntary restraint hypothesis 0 0 0 39 0 2 4 255
ENERGY CONSERVATION “NUDGES” AND ENVIRONMENTALIST IDEOLOGY: EVIDENCE FROM A RANDOMIZED RESIDENTIAL ELECTRICITY FIELD EXPERIMENT 0 2 4 211 1 6 21 1,025
Electricity Consumption and Durable Housing: Understanding Cohort Effects 0 0 0 50 0 7 18 469
Erratum to: A theory of technophysio, with come implications for forecasting population, health care costs, and pension costs 0 0 0 5 0 3 4 29
Estimating Real Income in the United States from 1888 to 1994: Correcting CPI Bias Using Engel Curves 0 0 0 107 0 4 7 560
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 1 4 5 39
Forging a New Identity: The Costs and Benefits of Diversity in Civil War Combat Units for Black Slaves and Freemen 0 0 0 35 0 11 16 694
From Mill Town to Board Room: The Rise of Women's Paid Labor 0 0 0 164 3 10 19 954
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 0 3 4 36
Health and Labor Force Participation of Older Men, 1900–1991 0 0 0 12 1 7 11 180
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 1 4 5 36
Health and the Economy in the United States from 1750 to the Present 0 0 1 107 1 9 27 387
Health, Income, and Retirement: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century America 0 0 0 2 1 3 4 105
Health, wartime stress, and unit cohesion: Evidence from Union Army veterans 0 0 1 6 0 7 10 48
Height, Weight, Wartime Stress, and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from the Union Army Records 0 0 0 80 0 6 10 389
Hours of Work and the Fair Labor Standards Act: A Study of Retail and Wholesale Trade, 1938–1950 0 0 2 4 0 4 9 216
Leaders: Privilege, Sacrifice, Opportunity, and Personnel Economics in the American Civil War 0 0 0 3 1 3 6 33
Overweight grandsons and grandfathers’ starvation exposure 0 0 0 0 3 13 16 21
Pensions and Retirement Among Black Union Army Veterans 0 0 0 4 0 2 4 45
Pensions and Retirement: Evidence from Union Army Veterans 0 0 1 91 0 4 11 824
Persistent social networks: Civil war veterans who fought together co-locate in later life 0 0 0 10 3 9 13 119
Power Couples: Changes in the Locational Choice of the College Educated, 1940–1990 1 1 7 442 5 12 30 2,201
Predicting Older Age Mortality Trends 0 0 0 16 0 3 4 102
Race and Pregnancy Outcomes in the Twentieth Century: A Long-Term Comparison 0 0 0 12 1 3 6 155
Scarring and Mortality Selection Among Civil War POWs: A Long-Term Mortality, Morbidity, and Socioeconomic Follow-Up 0 0 0 3 2 6 10 92
Surviving Andersonville: The Benefits of Social Networks in POW Camps 0 0 1 73 3 8 14 731
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 0 3 7 232
The Measure of Man and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from the Gould Sample 0 0 0 11 0 3 7 120
The Rising Price of Nonmarket Goods 0 0 0 80 1 6 7 399
The Unequal Work Day: A Long-Term View 0 0 0 39 1 8 12 295
The Wage and the Length of the Work Day: From the 1890s to 1991 0 0 0 153 0 3 13 714
Understanding mid-life and older age mortality declines: evidence from Union Army veterans 0 0 0 11 2 8 10 163
Understanding the American Decline in Social Capital, 1952–1998 0 0 0 38 2 10 15 750
Understanding the Solar Home price premium: Electricity generation and “Green” social status 1 1 3 108 3 7 22 814
Understanding the twentieth-century decline in chronic conditions among older men 0 0 0 4 1 11 17 107
Unequal at Birth: A Long-Term Comparison of Income and Birth Weight 0 0 0 17 1 6 12 138
Union Army veterans, all grown up 0 0 0 0 1 5 8 26
Wartime health shocks and the postwar socioeconomic status and mortality of union army veterans and their children 0 0 0 1 1 3 9 21
What is ‘Cliometrica’? 0 0 1 117 1 10 16 365
Total Journal Articles 2 8 31 2,775 57 321 635 20,361


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Economics of Health and Mortality 0 0 0 0 0 3 3 29
Health and Labor Force Participation over the Life Cycle: Evidence from the Past 0 0 0 0 0 5 6 143
Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War 0 0 0 0 4 12 17 300
The Evolution of Retirement 0 0 0 0 0 11 15 92
The Evolution of Retirement: An American Economic History, 1880-1990 0 0 0 0 1 6 11 379
Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth: Geography, Institutions, and the Knowledge Economy 0 0 0 0 2 5 10 230
Total Books 0 0 0 0 7 42 62 1,173


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Appendix A: Union Army Pensions and Civil War Records 0 0 0 19 1 3 6 84
Building the Armies 0 0 0 0 0 7 7 45
Conclusion 0 0 0 5 0 4 4 46
Data Appendix 0 0 0 0 0 1 3 39
Demand for Private and State-Provided Health Insurance in the 1910s: Evidence from California 0 0 0 0 1 4 5 9
Displacing the Family 0 0 0 19 0 4 5 47
Health, Education, and Income in the United States, 1820–2000 0 0 0 21 0 6 6 135
Heroes and Cowards 0 0 0 0 0 5 5 121
Income and Retirement 0 0 0 30 1 6 8 78
Introduction to "Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth: Geography, Institutions, and the Knowledge Economy 0 0 0 17 0 3 3 99
Learning from the Past 0 0 0 0 0 4 8 65
Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States 0 0 1 73 2 11 17 264
Looking to the Future 0 0 0 17 0 1 1 34
Loyalty and Sacrifice 0 0 0 0 0 5 6 122
POW Camp Survivors 0 0 0 0 1 5 7 69
Pensions and Politics 0 0 1 25 1 4 5 45
Preface 0 0 0 0 0 3 4 58
Preface 0 0 0 18 0 6 7 102
References 0 0 0 16 1 3 4 41
Slaves Become Freemen 0 0 0 0 1 4 7 61
The Evolution of Retirement 0 1 6 85 3 17 27 258
The Health of Older Men in the Past 0 0 0 6 0 5 6 45
The Homecoming of Heroes and Cowards 0 0 0 0 0 7 10 61
The Older Worker 0 0 0 24 0 1 1 79
The Problem of Old Age 0 0 0 41 0 3 4 156
The Rise of the Leisured Class 0 0 0 24 1 5 5 90
Why the US Civil War 0 0 0 0 0 8 8 44
Work and Disease 0 0 0 22 0 4 6 49
Total Chapters 0 1 8 462 13 139 185 2,346


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