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A House of Her Own: Old Age Assistance and the Living Arrangements of Older Nonmarried Women 0 0 0 51 0 1 12 690
Agricultural Decline and the Secular Rise in Male Retirement Rates 0 0 0 38 0 0 7 855
American Living Standards, 1888-1994: Evidence From Consumer Expenditures 0 0 0 76 0 0 20 781
American Living Standards: Evidence from Recreational Expenditures 0 0 0 102 0 0 12 1,371
Becoming Oldest-Old: Evidence from Historical U.S. Data 0 0 0 47 3 5 13 358
Changes in the Value of Life: 1940-1980 1 1 2 194 2 3 17 1,360
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 12 40
Compound Delay: The Causes and Consequences of Later Grandmotherhood 2 2 2 2 4 4 4 4
Cowards and Heroes: Group Loyalty in the American Civil War 0 0 2 160 2 6 36 1,435
Death and the Media: Asymmetries in Infectious Disease Reporting During the Health Transition 0 0 0 61 0 3 16 327
Displacing the Family: Union Army Pensions and Elderly Living Arrange- ments 0 0 0 31 0 1 12 385
Economy, the Ghost in Your Gene, and the Escape from Premature Mortality 0 0 0 13 0 1 24 44
Electricity Consumption and Durable Housing: Understanding Cohort Effects 0 0 0 51 3 3 13 428
Energy Conservation "Nudges" and Environmentalist Ideology: Evidence from a Randomized Residential Electricity Field Experiment 0 0 4 199 1 3 25 1,318
Equality Before the Law in U.S. Civil War Courts-Martial 0 0 4 12 0 1 10 20
Explaining the Changing Dynamics of Unemployment: Evidence from Civil War Records 0 0 0 11 1 3 14 1,380
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 1 21 3,001
From Mill Town to Board Room: The Rise of Women's Paid Labor 0 0 0 171 0 0 13 1,112
Health Shocks of the Father and Longevity of the Children's Children 0 0 0 17 0 1 21 48
Health and Labor Force Participation of Older Men, 1900-1991 0 0 0 44 1 2 14 280
Health and the Economy in the United States, from 1750 to the Present 0 0 0 134 0 3 36 286
Health, Education and Income in the United States, 1820-2000 0 0 0 128 1 3 18 135
Health, Income, and Retirement: Evidence from Nineteenth Century America 0 0 0 24 1 1 7 216
Health, Stress, and Social Networks: Evidence from Union Army Veterans 0 0 0 44 0 1 11 190
Hours of Work and the Fair Labor Standards Act: A Study of Retail and Wholesale Trade, 1938-1950 0 0 0 135 0 0 17 4,204
In Memorium: Robert W. Fogel 0 0 0 3 0 1 3 57
Leaders: Privilege, Sacrifice, Opportunity and Personnel Economics in the American Civil War 0 0 0 31 0 1 9 129
Less of a Luxury: The Rise of Recreation since 1888 1 1 1 139 2 3 22 858
Long-Term Declines in Disability Among Older Men: Medical Care, Public Health, and Occupational Change 0 0 0 36 0 0 14 399
Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States 0 0 0 463 0 1 49 3,466
Long-Term declines in Disability Among Older Men: Medical Care, Public Health, and Occupational Change 0 0 0 0 1 1 7 159
Overweight Grandsons and Grandfathers' Starvation Exposure 0 0 0 18 0 2 50 74
Persistent Social Networks: Civil War Veterans who Fought Together Co-Locate in Later Life 0 0 0 93 0 1 9 141
Power Couples: Changes in the Locational Choice of the College Educated, 1940-1990 0 0 0 281 1 5 23 1,776
Race and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from Union Army Veterans 0 0 0 29 0 1 13 215
Race and Pregnancy Outcomes in the Twentieth Century: A Long-Term Comparison 0 0 0 86 0 0 14 625
Scarring and Mortality Selection Among Civil War POWs: A Long-Term Mortality, Morbidity and Socioeconomic Follow-Up 0 0 0 8 0 1 10 100
Shame and Ostracism: Union Army Deserters Leave Home 0 0 1 50 0 1 16 742
Surviving Andersonville: The Benefits of Social Networks in POW Camps 0 0 0 80 0 5 22 712
The Economy, the Ghost in Your Gene and the Escape from Premature Mortality 0 0 1 19 0 1 12 28
The Economy, the Ghost in Your Gene, and the Escape from Premature Mortality 0 0 1 4 0 0 16 22
The Measure of Man and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from the Gould Sample 0 0 0 22 0 0 14 436
The Political Economy of State Provided Health Insurance in the Progressive Era: Evidence from California 0 0 0 147 1 1 13 1,531
The Rise of Retirement Among African Americans: Wealth and Social Security Effects 0 0 0 35 1 1 13 272
The Unequal Work Day: A Long-Term View 0 0 0 60 0 0 6 803
The Wage and the Length of the Work Day: From the 1890s to 1991 0 0 1 283 0 1 12 1,502
Understanding Mid-Life and Older Age Mortality Declines: Evidence from Union Army Veterans 0 0 0 37 0 3 15 613
Understanding the Decline in Social Capital, 1952-1998 0 0 0 405 2 2 24 1,675
Understanding the Solar Home Price Premium: Electricity Generation and "Green" Social Status 0 0 0 61 1 2 10 627
Understanding the Twentieth Century Decline in Chronic Conditions Among Older Men 0 0 0 45 1 2 12 553
Unequal at Birth: A Long-Term Comparison of Income and Birth Weight 0 0 0 40 0 0 9 375
Union Army Veterans, All Grown Up 1 1 1 27 1 2 22 62
Union Army Veterans, All Grown Up 0 0 0 0 0 0 27 56
Wartime Health Shocks and the Postwar Socioeconomic Status and Mortality of Union Army Veterans and their Children 0 0 0 51 1 1 11 63
What is Cliometrica 0 0 0 0 1 2 6 103
What is ‘Cliometrica' ? 0 0 0 0 0 1 11 16
Why Has California's Residential Electricity Consumption Been So Flat since the 1980s?: A Microeconometric Approach 0 0 0 91 0 0 38 841
Total Working Papers 5 5 20 4,564 33 88 937 39,299


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A house of her own: old age assistance and the living arrangements of older nonmarried women 0 0 1 56 0 1 7 425
A theory of technophysio evolution, with some implications for forecasting population, health care costs, and pension costs 0 0 0 26 1 3 13 149
Aggregation, rank, and some historical Engel curves 0 0 0 13 0 8 17 75
Agricultural Decline and the Secular Rise in Male Retirement Rates 0 0 0 3 0 1 11 73
Changes in the Value of Life, 1940--1980 0 0 2 187 1 2 34 1,719
Changing chronic disease rates and longterm declines in functional limitation among older men 0 0 0 0 0 1 11 37
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 0 10 19 23
Cowards and Heroes: Group Loyalty in the American Civil War 1 1 3 184 1 1 25 2,090
Death and the Media: Infectious Disease Reporting During the Health Transition 0 0 0 21 0 2 13 568
Declining Mortality Inequality within Cities during the Health Transition 0 0 1 69 0 2 12 361
Deserters, Social Norms, and Migration 0 0 0 37 0 1 15 356
Displacing the Family: Union Army Pensions and Elderly Living Arrangements 1 1 2 31 1 2 20 552
Do liberal home owners consume less electricity? A test of the voluntary restraint hypothesis 0 0 0 39 0 2 10 263
ENERGY CONSERVATION “NUDGES” AND ENVIRONMENTALIST IDEOLOGY: EVIDENCE FROM A RANDOMIZED RESIDENTIAL ELECTRICITY FIELD EXPERIMENT 0 0 2 211 0 4 18 1,034
Electricity Consumption and Durable Housing: Understanding Cohort Effects 0 0 0 50 0 0 8 469
Erratum to: A theory of technophysio, with come implications for forecasting population, health care costs, and pension costs 0 0 0 5 0 1 7 32
Estimating Real Income in the United States from 1888 to 1994: Correcting CPI Bias Using Engel Curves 0 1 1 108 0 10 25 579
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 7 41
Forging a New Identity: The Costs and Benefits of Diversity in Civil War Combat Units for Black Slaves and Freemen 0 0 0 35 2 2 27 707
From Mill Town to Board Room: The Rise of Women's Paid Labor 0 0 0 164 0 1 20 961
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 7 39
Health and Labor Force Participation of Older Men, 1900–1991 0 0 0 12 0 0 12 184
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 5 36
Health and the Economy in the United States from 1750 to the Present 0 0 1 107 0 0 23 391
Health, Income, and Retirement: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century America 0 0 0 2 0 0 7 109
Health, wartime stress, and unit cohesion: Evidence from Union Army veterans 0 0 0 6 0 0 9 49
Height, Weight, Wartime Stress, and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from the Union Army Records 0 0 0 80 0 0 13 393
Hours of Work and the Fair Labor Standards Act: A Study of Retail and Wholesale Trade, 1938–1950 0 0 1 4 1 3 13 222
Leaders: Privilege, Sacrifice, Opportunity, and Personnel Economics in the American Civil War 0 0 0 3 0 0 5 33
Overweight grandsons and grandfathers’ starvation exposure 0 0 0 0 1 1 19 25
Pensions and Retirement Among Black Union Army Veterans 0 0 0 4 0 0 4 47
Pensions and Retirement: Evidence from Union Army Veterans 2 2 2 93 2 3 15 831
Persistent social networks: Civil war veterans who fought together co-locate in later life 0 0 0 10 0 2 14 124
Power Couples: Changes in the Locational Choice of the College Educated, 1940–1990 0 0 3 442 3 4 33 2,216
Predicting Older Age Mortality Trends 0 0 0 16 1 1 7 105
Race and Pregnancy Outcomes in the Twentieth Century: A Long-Term Comparison 0 0 0 12 0 1 11 162
Scarring and Mortality Selection Among Civil War POWs: A Long-Term Mortality, Morbidity, and Socioeconomic Follow-Up 0 0 0 3 0 1 15 100
Surviving Andersonville: The Benefits of Social Networks in POW Camps 0 0 0 73 1 2 14 735
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 5 121
The Evolution of Retirement: Summary of a Research Project 0 0 0 66 0 2 11 239
The Measure of Man and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from the Gould Sample 0 0 0 11 0 0 9 126
The Rising Price of Nonmarket Goods 0 0 0 80 0 3 12 404
The Unequal Work Day: A Long-Term View 0 0 0 39 0 2 17 303
The Wage and the Length of the Work Day: From the 1890s to 1991 0 0 0 153 1 3 17 725
Understanding mid-life and older age mortality declines: evidence from Union Army veterans 0 0 0 11 0 1 14 168
Understanding the American Decline in Social Capital, 1952–1998 0 1 1 39 1 4 22 760
Understanding the Solar Home price premium: Electricity generation and “Green” social status 0 0 5 111 4 7 36 839
Understanding the twentieth-century decline in chronic conditions among older men 0 0 0 4 0 1 21 112
Unequal at Birth: A Long-Term Comparison of Income and Birth Weight 0 0 0 17 0 2 14 144
Union Army veterans, all grown up 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 30
Wartime health shocks and the postwar socioeconomic status and mortality of union army veterans and their children 1 1 1 2 3 3 12 26
What is ‘Cliometrica’? 0 0 1 118 0 0 16 370
Total Journal Articles 5 7 28 2,787 24 100 762 20,682


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Economics of Health and Mortality 0 0 0 0 1 1 7 33
Health and Labor Force Participation over the Life Cycle: Evidence from the Past 0 0 0 0 0 2 9 146
Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War 0 0 0 0 1 2 26 309
The Evolution of Retirement 0 0 0 0 0 1 17 96
The Evolution of Retirement: An American Economic History, 1880-1990 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 382
Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth: Geography, Institutions, and the Knowledge Economy 0 0 0 0 0 2 13 236
Total Books 0 0 0 0 2 8 82 1,202


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Appendix A: Union Army Pensions and Civil War Records 0 0 0 19 1 1 4 85
Building the Armies 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 48
Conclusion 0 0 0 5 0 0 5 47
Data Appendix 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 44
Demand for Private and State-Provided Health Insurance in the 1910s: Evidence from California 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 11
Displacing the Family 0 0 0 19 1 1 8 50
Health, Education, and Income in the United States, 1820–2000 0 0 0 21 0 2 8 137
Heroes and Cowards 0 0 0 0 1 1 10 126
Income and Retirement 0 0 0 30 0 0 7 79
Introduction to "Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth: Geography, Institutions, and the Knowledge Economy 0 0 0 17 1 1 12 108
Learning from the Past 0 0 0 0 0 1 8 66
Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States 0 0 0 73 1 2 20 271
Looking to the Future 0 0 0 17 0 1 2 35
Loyalty and Sacrifice 0 0 0 0 1 1 10 127
POW Camp Survivors 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 74
Pensions and Politics 0 0 0 25 0 0 6 47
Preface 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 60
Preface 0 0 0 18 0 0 8 103
References 0 0 0 16 0 0 5 42
Slaves Become Freemen 0 0 0 0 1 1 10 66
The Evolution of Retirement 0 0 1 85 1 2 26 265
The Health of Older Men in the Past 0 0 0 6 0 1 9 48
The Homecoming of Heroes and Cowards 0 0 0 0 0 1 11 64
The Older Worker 0 0 0 24 0 0 2 80
The Problem of Old Age 0 0 0 41 0 0 3 156
The Rise of the Leisured Class 0 0 0 24 0 0 6 91
Why the US Civil War 0 0 0 0 0 2 12 48
Work and Disease 0 0 0 22 0 0 5 49
Total Chapters 0 0 1 462 8 18 235 2,427


Statistics updated 2026-10-11