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A House of Her Own: Old Age Assistance and the Living Arrangements of Older Nonmarried Women 0 0 0 50 0 1 3 677
Agricultural Decline and the Secular Rise in Male Retirement Rates 0 0 0 38 1 1 1 848
American Living Standards, 1888-1994: Evidence From Consumer Expenditures 0 0 0 76 0 0 1 761
American Living Standards: Evidence from Recreational Expenditures 0 0 0 102 0 0 0 1,358
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 0 0 4 1,343
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 0 3 26
Cowards and Heroes: Group Loyalty in the American Civil War 0 0 0 158 1 2 6 1,399
Death and the Media: Asymmetries in Infectious Disease Reporting During the Health Transition 0 0 1 61 0 0 2 310
Displacing the Family: Union Army Pensions and Elderly Living Arrange- ments 0 0 0 31 0 0 0 373
Economy, the Ghost in Your Gene, and the Escape from Premature Mortality 0 1 13 13 1 3 17 17
Electricity Consumption and Durable Housing: Understanding Cohort Effects 0 2 3 51 0 2 7 411
Energy Conservation "Nudges" and Environmentalist Ideology: Evidence from a Randomized Residential Electricity Field Experiment 0 0 0 194 1 2 6 1,291
Explaining the Changing Dynamics of Unemployment: Evidence from Civil War Records 0 0 0 11 0 0 1 1,366
Forging a New Identity: The Costs and Benefits of Diversity in Civil War Combat Units for Black Slaves and Freemen 0 0 0 145 0 0 2 2,979
From Mill Town to Board Room: The Rise of Women's Paid Labor 0 0 0 171 0 0 1 1,099
Health Shocks of the Father and Longevity of the Children's Children 0 0 0 17 0 0 2 26
Health and Labor Force Participation of Older Men, 1900-1991 0 0 0 44 0 0 5 266
Health and the Economy in the United States, from 1750 to the Present 0 0 0 134 0 0 0 247
Health, Education and Income in the United States, 1820-2000 0 0 0 128 0 0 2 117
Health, Income, and Retirement: Evidence from Nineteenth Century America 0 0 0 24 1 3 13 207
Health, Stress, and Social Networks: Evidence from Union Army Veterans 0 0 0 44 0 0 0 178
Hours of Work and the Fair Labor Standards Act: A Study of Retail and Wholesale Trade, 1938-1950 0 0 0 135 0 0 1 4,187
In Memorium: Robert W. Fogel 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 54
Leaders: Privilege, Sacrifice, Opportunity and Personnel Economics in the American Civil War 0 0 0 31 0 0 2 119
Less of a Luxury: The Rise of Recreation since 1888 0 0 0 138 0 0 1 836
Long-Term Declines in Disability Among Older Men: Medical Care, Public Health, and Occupational Change 0 0 0 36 0 0 1 385
Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States 0 1 1 463 1 5 10 3,417
Long-Term declines in Disability Among Older Men: Medical Care, Public Health, and Occupational Change 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 152
Overweight Grandsons and Grandfathers' Starvation Exposure 0 0 0 18 0 0 2 23
Persistent Social Networks: Civil War Veterans who Fought Together Co-Locate in Later Life 0 0 0 93 1 1 2 131
Power Couples: Changes in the Locational Choice of the College Educated, 1940-1990 0 0 0 281 0 0 1 1,751
Race and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from Union Army Veterans 0 0 1 29 0 0 4 202
Race and Pregnancy Outcomes in the Twentieth Century: A Long-Term Comparison 0 0 0 86 0 1 3 611
Scarring and Mortality Selection Among Civil War POWs: A Long-Term Mortality, Morbidity and Socioeconomic Follow-Up 0 1 1 8 0 1 3 88
Shame and Ostracism: Union Army Deserters Leave Home 0 0 0 49 0 0 7 725
Surviving Andersonville: The Benefits of Social Networks in POW Camps 0 0 0 80 0 0 3 690
The Economy, the Ghost in Your Gene and the Escape from Premature Mortality 0 0 18 18 0 0 15 15
The Economy, the Ghost in Your Gene, and the Escape from Premature Mortality 0 0 2 2 1 1 5 5
The Measure of Man and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from the Gould Sample 0 0 0 22 0 0 5 421
The Political Economy of State Provided Health Insurance in the Progressive Era: Evidence from California 0 0 0 147 0 1 1 1,517
The Rise of Retirement Among African Americans: Wealth and Social Security Effects 0 0 0 35 0 0 2 258
The Unequal Work Day: A Long-Term View 0 0 0 60 0 0 1 797
The Wage and the Length of the Work Day: From the 1890s to 1991 0 0 0 282 0 0 1 1,489
Understanding Mid-Life and Older Age Mortality Declines: Evidence from Union Army Veterans 0 0 1 37 0 0 1 597
Understanding the Decline in Social Capital, 1952-1998 0 0 0 405 1 2 8 1,649
Understanding the Solar Home Price Premium: Electricity Generation and "Green" Social Status 0 0 0 61 0 1 7 617
Understanding the Twentieth Century Decline in Chronic Conditions Among Older Men 0 0 0 45 0 0 1 541
Unequal at Birth: A Long-Term Comparison of Income and Birth Weight 0 0 0 40 0 1 13 366
Union Army Veterans, All Grown Up 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 29
Union Army Veterans, All Grown Up 0 0 0 26 0 0 2 37
Wartime Health Shocks and the Postwar Socioeconomic Status and Mortality of Union Army Veterans and their Children 0 0 1 51 1 1 2 49
What is Cliometrica 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 96
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 0 1 7 802
Total Working Papers 0 5 45 4,533 10 30 190 38,305


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A house of her own: old age assistance and the living arrangements of older nonmarried women 0 0 0 55 0 1 3 417
A theory of technophysio evolution, with some implications for forecasting population, health care costs, and pension costs 0 0 2 26 0 0 6 135
Aggregation, rank, and some historical Engel curves 0 0 0 13 0 0 1 57
Agricultural Decline and the Secular Rise in Male Retirement Rates 0 0 0 3 0 0 1 61
Changes in the Value of Life, 1940--1980 0 0 2 185 16 18 23 1,677
Changing chronic disease rates and longterm declines in functional limitation among older men 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 26
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 0 0 0 0
Cowards and Heroes: Group Loyalty in the American Civil War 0 0 0 181 2 6 19 2,062
Death and the Media: Infectious Disease Reporting During the Health Transition 0 0 0 21 0 1 5 553
Declining Mortality Inequality within Cities during the Health Transition 0 1 1 67 4 6 14 348
Deserters, Social Norms, and Migration 0 1 1 37 0 1 5 337
Displacing the Family: Union Army Pensions and Elderly Living Arrangements 0 0 0 29 1 1 4 531
Do liberal home owners consume less electricity? A test of the voluntary restraint hypothesis 0 0 1 39 0 0 7 252
ENERGY CONSERVATION “NUDGES” AND ENVIRONMENTALIST IDEOLOGY: EVIDENCE FROM A RANDOMIZED RESIDENTIAL ELECTRICITY FIELD EXPERIMENT 0 1 5 208 0 6 21 1,011
Electricity Consumption and Durable Housing: Understanding Cohort Effects 0 0 0 50 1 1 6 453
Erratum to: A theory of technophysio, with come implications for forecasting population, health care costs, and pension costs 0 0 0 5 0 0 2 25
Estimating Real Income in the United States from 1888 to 1994: Correcting CPI Bias Using Engel Curves 0 0 1 107 0 0 4 553
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 0 0 0 34
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 1 10 679
From Mill Town to Board Room: The Rise of Women's Paid Labor 0 0 0 164 0 4 9 940
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 0 0 32
Health and Labor Force Participation of Older Men, 1900–1991 0 0 0 12 0 0 1 169
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 0 0 31
Health and the Economy in the United States from 1750 to the Present 0 0 2 106 2 2 9 362
Health, Income, and Retirement: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century America 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 101
Health, wartime stress, and unit cohesion: Evidence from Union Army veterans 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 38
Height, Weight, Wartime Stress, and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from the Union Army Records 0 0 1 80 0 1 5 380
Hours of Work and the Fair Labor Standards Act: A Study of Retail and Wholesale Trade, 1938–1950 0 0 1 3 0 0 3 209
Leaders: Privilege, Sacrifice, Opportunity, and Personnel Economics in the American Civil War 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 27
Overweight grandsons and grandfathers’ starvation exposure 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 5
Pensions and Retirement Among Black Union Army Veterans 0 0 0 4 0 1 1 42
Pensions and Retirement: Evidence from Union Army Veterans 0 0 1 90 0 0 2 813
Persistent social networks: Civil war veterans who fought together co-locate in later life 0 0 1 10 0 2 4 108
Power Couples: Changes in the Locational Choice of the College Educated, 1940–1990 0 0 10 435 0 2 31 2,174
Predicting Older Age Mortality Trends 0 0 0 16 0 0 1 98
Race and Pregnancy Outcomes in the Twentieth Century: A Long-Term Comparison 0 0 0 12 0 1 2 150
Scarring and Mortality Selection Among Civil War POWs: A Long-Term Mortality, Morbidity, and Socioeconomic Follow-Up 0 0 0 3 1 3 6 85
Surviving Andersonville: The Benefits of Social Networks in POW Camps 0 1 1 73 0 3 10 720
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 Evolution of Retirement: Summary of a Research Project 0 0 0 66 0 0 2 226
The Measure of Man and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from the Gould Sample 0 0 0 11 0 2 7 115
The Rising Price of Nonmarket Goods 0 0 1 80 0 0 2 392
The Unequal Work Day: A Long-Term View 0 0 0 39 0 1 5 284
The Wage and the Length of the Work Day: From the 1890s to 1991 0 0 1 153 1 2 8 703
Understanding mid-life and older age mortality declines: evidence from Union Army veterans 0 0 1 11 0 1 5 154
Understanding the American Decline in Social Capital, 1952–1998 0 0 0 38 0 1 5 736
Understanding the Solar Home price premium: Electricity generation and “Green” social status 0 1 2 106 2 7 19 799
Understanding the twentieth-century decline in chronic conditions among older men 0 0 0 4 0 0 3 90
Unequal at Birth: A Long-Term Comparison of Income and Birth Weight 0 0 0 17 1 2 5 128
Union Army veterans, all grown up 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 19
Wartime health shocks and the postwar socioeconomic status and mortality of union army veterans and their children 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 12
What is ‘Cliometrica’? 0 1 1 117 0 4 4 353
Total Journal Articles 0 6 36 2,751 33 83 288 19,822


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Economics of Health and Mortality 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 26
Health and Labor Force Participation over the Life Cycle: Evidence from the Past 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 137
Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 283
The Evolution of Retirement 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 79
The Evolution of Retirement: An American Economic History, 1880-1990 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 370
Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth: Geography, Institutions, and the Knowledge Economy 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 220
Total Books 0 0 0 0 0 3 22 1,115


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Appendix A: Union Army Pensions and Civil War Records 0 0 0 19 1 2 3 80
Building the Armies 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 38
Conclusion 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 42
Data Appendix 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 37
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 0 0 0 42
Health, Education, and Income in the United States, 1820–2000 0 0 0 21 0 0 4 129
Heroes and Cowards 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 116
Income and Retirement 0 0 0 30 0 2 2 72
Introduction to "Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth: Geography, Institutions, and the Knowledge Economy 0 0 0 17 0 0 2 96
Learning from the Past 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 58
Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States 0 0 3 72 0 1 8 248
Looking to the Future 0 0 0 17 0 0 0 33
Loyalty and Sacrifice 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 116
POW Camp Survivors 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 63
Pensions and Politics 1 1 1 25 1 1 1 41
Preface 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 54
Preface 0 0 0 18 0 0 0 95
References 0 0 0 16 0 0 3 37
Slaves Become Freemen 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 55
The Evolution of Retirement 1 3 7 84 2 5 13 238
The Health of Older Men in the Past 0 0 0 6 0 0 0 39
The Homecoming of Heroes and Cowards 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 52
The Older Worker 0 0 0 24 0 0 0 78
The Problem of Old Age 0 0 0 41 1 1 2 153
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 0 0 0 43
Total Chapters 2 4 11 460 6 16 57 2,181


Statistics updated 2025-07-04