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A House of Her Own: Old Age Assistance and the Living Arrangements of Older Nonmarried Women 0 0 1 51 0 2 12 689
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 6 20 781
American Living Standards: Evidence from Recreational Expenditures 0 0 0 102 2 3 13 1,371
Becoming Oldest-Old: Evidence from Historical U.S. Data 0 0 0 47 0 1 8 353
Changes in the Value of Life: 1940-1980 0 1 1 193 0 4 14 1,357
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 2 3 14 40
Cowards and Heroes: Group Loyalty in the American Civil War 0 1 2 160 3 10 30 1,429
Death and the Media: Asymmetries in Infectious Disease Reporting During the Health Transition 0 0 0 61 1 6 14 324
Displacing the Family: Union Army Pensions and Elderly Living Arrange- ments 0 0 0 31 0 5 11 384
Economy, the Ghost in Your Gene, and the Escape from Premature Mortality 0 0 0 13 2 6 26 43
Electricity Consumption and Durable Housing: Understanding Cohort Effects 0 0 0 51 1 3 14 425
Energy Conservation "Nudges" and Environmentalist Ideology: Evidence from a Randomized Residential Electricity Field Experiment 0 1 5 199 1 6 24 1,315
Equality Before the Law in U.S. Civil War Courts-Martial 0 0 12 12 0 3 19 19
Explaining the Changing Dynamics of Unemployment: Evidence from Civil War Records 0 0 0 11 0 2 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 0 6 21 3,000
From Mill Town to Board Room: The Rise of Women's Paid Labor 0 0 0 171 1 4 13 1,112
Health Shocks of the Father and Longevity of the Children's Children 0 0 0 17 1 1 21 47
Health and Labor Force Participation of Older Men, 1900-1991 0 0 0 44 0 2 12 278
Health and the Economy in the United States, from 1750 to the Present 0 0 0 134 0 5 36 283
Health, Education and Income in the United States, 1820-2000 0 0 0 128 1 6 15 132
Health, Income, and Retirement: Evidence from Nineteenth Century America 0 0 0 24 0 4 8 215
Health, Stress, and Social Networks: Evidence from Union Army Veterans 0 0 0 44 0 2 11 189
Hours of Work and the Fair Labor Standards Act: A Study of Retail and Wholesale Trade, 1938-1950 0 0 0 135 3 5 17 4,204
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 0 2 9 128
Less of a Luxury: The Rise of Recreation since 1888 0 0 0 138 0 7 19 855
Long-Term Declines in Disability Among Older Men: Medical Care, Public Health, and Occupational Change 0 0 0 36 0 3 14 399
Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States 0 0 0 463 4 7 48 3,465
Long-Term declines in Disability Among Older Men: Medical Care, Public Health, and Occupational Change 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 158
Overweight Grandsons and Grandfathers' Starvation Exposure 0 0 0 18 0 0 49 72
Persistent Social Networks: Civil War Veterans who Fought Together Co-Locate in Later Life 0 0 0 93 2 3 9 140
Power Couples: Changes in the Locational Choice of the College Educated, 1940-1990 0 0 0 281 0 4 20 1,771
Race and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from Union Army Veterans 0 0 0 29 0 2 12 214
Race and Pregnancy Outcomes in the Twentieth Century: A Long-Term Comparison 0 0 0 86 0 4 14 625
Scarring and Mortality Selection Among Civil War POWs: A Long-Term Mortality, Morbidity and Socioeconomic Follow-Up 0 0 0 8 0 2 11 99
Shame and Ostracism: Union Army Deserters Leave Home 0 0 1 50 0 3 16 741
Surviving Andersonville: The Benefits of Social Networks in POW Camps 0 0 0 80 1 2 17 707
The Economy, the Ghost in Your Gene and the Escape from Premature Mortality 0 1 1 19 0 1 12 27
The Economy, the Ghost in Your Gene, and the Escape from Premature Mortality 0 0 2 4 1 4 17 22
The Measure of Man and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from the Gould Sample 0 0 0 22 0 1 15 436
The Political Economy of State Provided Health Insurance in the Progressive Era: Evidence from California 0 0 0 147 0 5 13 1,530
The Rise of Retirement Among African Americans: Wealth and Social Security Effects 0 0 0 35 0 2 13 271
The Unequal Work Day: A Long-Term View 0 0 0 60 1 3 6 803
The Wage and the Length of the Work Day: From the 1890s to 1991 0 0 1 283 2 4 12 1,501
Understanding Mid-Life and Older Age Mortality Declines: Evidence from Union Army Veterans 0 0 0 37 0 3 13 610
Understanding the Decline in Social Capital, 1952-1998 0 0 0 405 2 10 24 1,673
Understanding the Solar Home Price Premium: Electricity Generation and "Green" Social Status 0 0 0 61 0 2 8 625
Understanding the Twentieth Century Decline in Chronic Conditions Among Older Men 0 0 0 45 1 4 10 551
Unequal at Birth: A Long-Term Comparison of Income and Birth Weight 0 0 0 40 0 4 9 375
Union Army Veterans, All Grown Up 0 0 0 0 9 12 27 56
Union Army Veterans, All Grown Up 0 0 0 26 1 8 23 60
Wartime Health Shocks and the Postwar Socioeconomic Status and Mortality of Union Army Veterans and their Children 0 0 0 51 0 0 13 62
What is Cliometrica 0 0 0 0 0 2 5 101
What is ‘Cliometrica' ? 0 0 0 0 0 4 10 15
Why Has California's Residential Electricity Consumption Been So Flat since the 1980s?: A Microeconometric Approach 0 0 0 91 0 27 39 841
Total Working Papers 0 4 26 4,559 42 231 906 39,211


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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 7 424
A theory of technophysio evolution, with some implications for forecasting population, health care costs, and pension costs 0 0 0 26 0 1 11 146
Aggregation, rank, and some historical Engel curves 0 0 0 13 0 4 10 67
Agricultural Decline and the Secular Rise in Male Retirement Rates 0 0 0 3 0 2 11 72
Changes in the Value of Life, 1940--1980 0 0 2 187 1 2 40 1,717
Changing chronic disease rates and longterm declines in functional limitation among older men 0 0 0 0 0 3 10 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 2 3 13 13
Cowards and Heroes: Group Loyalty in the American Civil War 0 1 2 183 1 11 27 2,089
Death and the Media: Infectious Disease Reporting During the Health Transition 0 0 0 21 1 2 13 566
Declining Mortality Inequality within Cities during the Health Transition 0 0 2 69 0 1 11 359
Deserters, Social Norms, and Migration 0 0 0 37 0 1 18 355
Displacing the Family: Union Army Pensions and Elderly Living Arrangements 0 0 1 30 2 3 19 550
Do liberal home owners consume less electricity? A test of the voluntary restraint hypothesis 0 0 0 39 0 4 9 261
ENERGY CONSERVATION “NUDGES” AND ENVIRONMENTALIST IDEOLOGY: EVIDENCE FROM A RANDOMIZED RESIDENTIAL ELECTRICITY FIELD EXPERIMENT 0 0 3 211 0 3 19 1,030
Electricity Consumption and Durable Housing: Understanding Cohort Effects 0 0 0 50 0 0 16 469
Erratum to: A theory of technophysio, with come implications for forecasting population, health care costs, and pension costs 0 0 0 5 0 2 6 31
Estimating Real Income in the United States from 1888 to 1994: Correcting CPI Bias Using Engel Curves 0 0 0 107 1 5 16 569
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 2 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 0 10 26 705
From Mill Town to Board Room: The Rise of Women's Paid Labor 0 0 0 164 0 4 20 960
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 7 39
Health and Labor Force Participation of Older Men, 1900–1991 0 0 0 12 0 3 15 184
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 1 3 29 391
Health, Income, and Retirement: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century America 0 0 0 2 0 4 8 109
Health, wartime stress, and unit cohesion: Evidence from Union Army veterans 0 0 1 6 0 1 11 49
Height, Weight, Wartime Stress, and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from the Union Army Records 0 0 0 80 1 4 13 393
Hours of Work and the Fair Labor Standards Act: A Study of Retail and Wholesale Trade, 1938–1950 0 0 1 4 0 2 10 219
Leaders: Privilege, Sacrifice, Opportunity, and Personnel Economics in the American Civil War 0 0 0 3 0 0 6 33
Overweight grandsons and grandfathers’ starvation exposure 0 0 0 0 0 2 19 24
Pensions and Retirement Among Black Union Army Veterans 0 0 0 4 0 2 5 47
Pensions and Retirement: Evidence from Union Army Veterans 0 0 1 91 0 4 15 828
Persistent social networks: Civil war veterans who fought together co-locate in later life 0 0 0 10 0 3 14 122
Power Couples: Changes in the Locational Choice of the College Educated, 1940–1990 0 0 7 442 2 10 38 2,212
Predicting Older Age Mortality Trends 0 0 0 16 0 1 6 104
Race and Pregnancy Outcomes in the Twentieth Century: A Long-Term Comparison 0 0 0 12 0 5 11 161
Scarring and Mortality Selection Among Civil War POWs: A Long-Term Mortality, Morbidity, and Socioeconomic Follow-Up 0 0 0 3 0 6 14 99
Surviving Andersonville: The Benefits of Social Networks in POW Camps 0 0 0 73 0 1 13 733
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 1 4 5 121
The Evolution of Retirement: Summary of a Research Project 0 0 0 66 1 5 11 237
The Measure of Man and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from the Gould Sample 0 0 0 11 1 6 11 126
The Rising Price of Nonmarket Goods 0 0 0 80 0 2 9 401
The Unequal Work Day: A Long-Term View 0 0 0 39 0 5 17 301
The Wage and the Length of the Work Day: From the 1890s to 1991 0 0 0 153 2 7 19 722
Understanding mid-life and older age mortality declines: evidence from Union Army veterans 0 0 0 11 1 4 13 167
Understanding the American Decline in Social Capital, 1952–1998 0 0 0 38 0 6 20 756
Understanding the Solar Home price premium: Electricity generation and “Green” social status 3 3 5 111 9 15 33 832
Understanding the twentieth-century decline in chronic conditions among older men 0 0 0 4 0 3 21 111
Unequal at Birth: A Long-Term Comparison of Income and Birth Weight 0 0 0 17 0 4 14 142
Union Army veterans, all grown up 0 0 0 0 0 3 11 30
Wartime health shocks and the postwar socioeconomic status and mortality of union army veterans and their children 0 0 0 1 1 2 11 23
What is ‘Cliometrica’? 0 1 1 118 0 3 17 370
Total Journal Articles 3 5 29 2,780 28 187 760 20,582


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Economics of Health and Mortality 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 32
Health and Labor Force Participation over the Life Cycle: Evidence from the Past 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 144
Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War 0 0 0 0 0 7 24 307
The Evolution of Retirement 0 0 0 0 1 2 16 95
The Evolution of Retirement: An American Economic History, 1880-1990 0 0 0 0 1 3 12 382
Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth: Geography, Institutions, and the Knowledge Economy 0 0 0 0 1 4 14 234
Total Books 0 0 0 0 3 19 79 1,194


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Appendix A: Union Army Pensions and Civil War Records 0 0 0 19 0 0 4 84
Building the Armies 0 0 0 0 1 3 10 48
Conclusion 0 0 0 5 0 1 5 47
Data Appendix 0 0 0 0 0 5 7 44
Demand for Private and State-Provided Health Insurance in the 1910s: Evidence from California 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 11
Displacing the Family 0 0 0 19 0 1 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 0 4 9 125
Income and Retirement 0 0 0 30 0 1 7 79
Introduction to "Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth: Geography, Institutions, and the Knowledge Economy 0 0 0 17 0 8 11 107
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 0 5 21 269
Looking to the Future 0 0 0 17 0 0 1 34
Loyalty and Sacrifice 0 0 0 0 0 3 10 126
POW Camp Survivors 0 0 0 0 0 4 11 74
Pensions and Politics 0 0 0 25 1 2 6 47
Preface 0 0 0 18 0 0 8 103
Preface 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 60
References 0 0 0 16 0 0 5 42
Slaves Become Freemen 0 0 0 0 1 4 10 65
The Evolution of Retirement 0 0 1 85 2 4 25 263
The Health of Older Men in the Past 0 0 0 6 0 2 8 47
The Homecoming of Heroes and Cowards 0 0 0 0 0 2 11 63
The Older Worker 0 0 0 24 0 1 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 1 6 91
Why the US Civil War 0 0 0 0 0 2 10 46
Work and Disease 0 0 0 22 0 0 6 49
Total Chapters 0 0 2 462 5 57 228 2,409


Statistics updated 2026-07-10