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List of works by Dora L. Costa

A House of Her Own: Old Age Assistance and the Living Arrangements of Older Nonmarried Women

scholarly article published June 1999

Agricultural Decline and the Secular Rise in Male Retirement Rates

scientific article published in April 1994

American Living Standards, 1888-1994: Evidence From Consumer Expenditures

scientific article published in April 2000

American Living Standards: Evidence from Recreational Expenditures

scientific article published in May 1999

Becoming Oldest-Old: Evidence from Historical U.S. Data

scientific article published in September 2003

Changes in the Value of Life: 1940-1980

scientific article published in December 2002

Changing chronic disease rates and long-term declines in functional limitation among older men.

scientific article published in February 2002

Cowards and Heroes: Group Loyalty in the American Civil War

article published in 2001

DEATH AND THE MEDIA: INFECTIOUS DISEASE REPORTING DURING THE HEALTH TRANSITION

article

Data set from the Union Army samples to study locational choice and social networks.

scientific article

Death and the Media: Asymmetries in Infectious Disease Reporting During the Health Transition

scholarly article published April 2015

Declining Mortality Inequality within Cities during the Health Transition.

scientific article published in May 2015

Displacing the Family: Union Army Pensions and Elderly Living Arrange- ments

Economics of health and mortality special feature: race, infection, and arteriosclerosis in the past

scholarly article

Electricity Consumption and Durable Housing: Understanding Cohort Effects

scientific article published in January 2011

Energy Conservation "Nudges" and Environmentalist Ideology: Evidence from a Randomized Residential Electricity Field Experiment

scientific article published in April 2010

Explaining the Changing Dynamics of Unemployment: Evidence from Civil War Records

scientific article published in December 1993

Forging a New Identity: The Costs and Benefits of Diversity in Civil War Combat Units for Black Slaves and Freemen

From Mill Town to Board Room: The Rise of Women's Paid Labor

scientific article published in March 2000

Health and Labor Force Participation of Older Men, 1900-1991

scientific article published in November 1994

Health and the Economy in the United States, from 1750 to the Present

scientific article

Health and the Economy in the United States, from 1750 to the Present

scientific article published in November 2013

Health, Education and Income in the United States, 1820-2000

scientific article published in June 2013

Health, Income, and Retirement: Evidence from Nineteenth Century America

scientific article published in November 1993

Health, Stress, and Social Networks: Evidence from Union Army Veterans

Health, Stress, and Social Networks: Evidence from Union Army Veterans

scientific article published in June 2008

Health, wartime stress, and unit cohesion: evidence from Union Army veterans

scientific article

Hours of Work and the Fair Labor Standards Act: A Study of Retail and Wholesale Trade, 1938-1950

scientific article published in December 1998

Intergenerational transmission of paternal trauma among US Civil War ex-POWs

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Leaders: Privilege, Sacrifice, Opportunity and Personnel Economics in the American Civil War

scientific article published in September 2011

Leaders: Privilege, Sacrifice, Opportunity, and Personnel Economics in the American Civil War.

scientific article

Less of a Luxury: The Rise of Recreation since 1888

scientific article published in June 1997

Long-Term Declines in Disability Among Older Men: Medical Care, Public Health, and Occupational Change

scientific article published in March 2000

Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States

scientific article published in November 1995

Pensions and Retirement Among Black Union Army Veterans

scientific article

Persistent Social Networks: Civil War Veterans Who Fought Together Co-Locate in Later Life

Persistent Social Networks: Civil War Veterans who Fought Together Co-Locate in Later Life

scientific article published in July 2016

Power Couples: Changes in the Locational Choice of the College Educated, 1940-1990

Race and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from Union Army Veterans

scientific article published in November 2004

Race and Pregnancy Outcomes in the Twentieth Century: A Long-Term Comparison

scientific article published in March 2003

Scarring and Mortality Selection Among Civil War POWs: A Long-Term Mortality, Morbidity and Socioeconomic Follow-Up

scientific article published in December 2010

Scarring and mortality selection among Civil War POWs: a long-term mortality, morbidity, and socioeconomic follow-up

scientific article

Shame and Ostracism: Union Army Deserters Leave Home

scientific article published in April 2004

Surviving Andersonville: The Benefits of Social Networks in POW Camps

Surviving Andersonville: The Benefits of Social Networks in POW Camps

The Measure of Man and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from the Gould Sample

scientific article published in March 2002

The Political Economy of State Provided Health Insurance in the Progressive Era: Evidence from California

scientific article published in October 1995

The Rise of Retirement Among African Americans: Wealth and Social Security Effects

scientific article published in November 2008

The Unequal Work Day: A Long-Term View

scientific article published in February 1998

The Wage and the Length of the Work Day: From the 1890s to 1991

scientific article published in April 1998

The economics and demography of aging.

scholarly article

Understanding Mid-Life and Older Age Mortality Declines: Evidence from Union Army Veterans

scientific article published in November 2000

Understanding the American Decline in Social Capital, 1952-1998

Understanding the Decline in Social Capital, 1952-1998

Understanding the Solar Home Price Premium: Electricity Generation and “Green” Social Status

scientific article published in July 2011

Understanding the Solar Home price premium: Electricity generation and “Green” social status

article published in 2012

Understanding the Twentieth Century Decline in Chronic Conditions Among Older Men

scientific article published in December 1998

Understanding the Twentieth-Century Decline in Chronic Conditions among Older Men

scientific article published on 01 February 2000

Unequal at Birth: A Long-Term Comparison of Income and Birth Weight

Union Army Veterans, All Grown Up

scientific article

Union Army Veterans, All Grown Up

scientific article published in August 2016

Wartime Health Shocks and the Postwar Socioeconomic Status and Mortality of Union Army Veterans and their Children

scientific article published in January 2019

Why Has California's Residential Electricity Consumption Been So Flat since the 1980s?: A Microeconometric Approach

scientific article published in May 2010