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Courses
- AEAApplied Economic Analysis
- TCLThe Competitive Landscape
- BIIIBusiness Intensive II
- EMEconomics for Managers
- QIQuantitative Intensive
Grants
- Doctoral Dissertation Research in Economics: The Price of Property: An Economic, Geographic and Institutional Analysis of American Indian Reservation Land Loss in the American Frontier, 1880-1915
Principal Investigator (PI)
2021
$25.0K
Active - Doctoral Dissertation Research in Economics: Modelling the Historical Consolidation of Family Farms Through Time
Principal Investigator (PI)
2021
$19.6K
Active - Doctoral Dissertation Research in Economics: The Diffusion of Automobiles and Motortrucks in the United States in the 20th Century
Principal Investigator (PI)
2021
$17.2K
Active - Economic History Association Funding for Executive Director
Principal Investigator (PI)
2012
$303.0K
Active - Graduate Assistantship for Ye Yuan, Department of Economics, Sponsored by the Industrial Commission of Arizona.
Principal Investigator (PI)
2018
$20.7K
- Doctoral Dissertation Research in Economics: Investigating the Economic Consequences of Atmospheric Nuclear Testing
Principal Investigator (PI)
2017
$9.7K
- Doctoral Dissertation Research in Economics: Investigating the Impact of the Civilian Conservation Corps Program on Health and Human Capital
Principal Investigator (PI)
2016
$14.3K
- Collaborative Research: The Great Depression, the New Deal, and the Origins of Modern State Government Fiscal Policies
Principal Investigator (PI)
2014
$355.6K
- Doctoral Dissertation Research in Economics: The Impact of Mechanization and Market Integration on Industry Location in Germany and the Pennsylvania..
Principal Investigator (PI)
2012
$10.8K
- Doctoral Dissertation Research in Economics: The Warring Forties: New Evidence on the Economic Consequences of World War II
Principal Investigator (PI)
2012
$9.3K
News
- UA Economists Focus on Oil Prices
2015
- Feast From Famine: New Study Examines U.S. Farm Productivity
2009
- New Book Explores America's Story Through Economist's Eye
2007
- Eller Faculty Recognized
2001
Publications (109)
- Quantifying the Monetary Impacts of Nonquantitative Changes in Liability and Procedural Rules: A Study of Workers’ Compensation, 1997-2016
2022
- “Race, Risk, and the Emergence of Federal Redlining.”
2022
- “Discrimination, Migration, and Economic Outcomes for the Discriminators and the Discriminated Against: Evidence from the Treatment of German-Americans Circa World War I.
2022
- “The Impact of Progressive Era Labor Regulations on Annual Earnings and Employment in Manufacturing in the United States, 1904-1919,”
2022
- The Effects of Workweek Restrictions in the Great Depression
2021
- The Rise of American Minimum Wages, 1912-1968.
2021
- Presidential Address. “Social Insurance and Public Assistance in the 20th Century.”
2020
- “The Rich Palette of the Economic History Curriculum”
2020
- “Local Economic Conditions and Fertility from the Great Depression Through the Great Recession.”
2020
- “Racial Differences in Access to New Deal Work Relief in 1940.”
2020
- “Collateral damage: Foreclosures and new mortgage lending in the 1930s
2020
- “Social Insurance and Public Assistance in America in the 20th Century: Presidential Address for the Economic History Association.”
2020
- “Effects of New Deal Spending and the Downturns of the 1930s on Private Labor Markets in 1939/1940.”
2019
- “Collateral damage: Foreclosures and new mortgage lending in the 1930s.”
2019
- The Impact of World War II on the Demand for Female Workers in Manufacturing
2018
- Economic Crisis and the Demise of a Popular Contractual Form: Building Loans in the 1930s
2018
- Racial Disparities in Access to New Deal Programs
2018
- “The Newest on the New Deal
2018
- Economic Crisis and the Demise of a Popular Contractual Form: Building and Loan Mortgage Contracts in the 1930s
2018
- “Rural Land Inequality and the Development of a New Credit System in the South after the Civil War, 1860-1930,” with Matthew Jaremski, 2013.
2018
- The Impact of World War II on Female Workers.
2018
- Rural Land Inequality and the Development of a New Credit System in the South after the Civil War, 1860-1900
2017
- Long Term Empirical Trends Related to the Grand Bargain of Workers’ Compensation: A Comment on Spieler
2017
- Summary by LuAnn Haley: The National Association of Workers’ Compensation Judiciary
2017
- How Successful Was the New Deal? The Microeconomic Impact of New Deal Spending and Lending Policies
2017
- How Successful Was the New Deal?
2016
- “Hedoninc Housing Indexes During the Great Depression.” With Trevor Kollmann. Trever has presented the paper at several universities and conferences in Australia.
2015
- “Flip the Switch: The Spatial Impact of the Rural Electrification Administration 1935-1940.” With Carl Kitchens, 2015.
2015
- “New Deal Funding: Estimates of Federal Grants and Loans Across States by Year, 1930-1940.” Research in Economic History.
2015
- “The Multiplier for the States in the Great Depression.’
2015
- “The Role of Southern Political Power in Ira Katznelson’s Fear Itself: What Can We Learn from Additional Sources? “
2015
- “Hard Times in the Land of Plenty: The Effect on Income and Disability Later in Life for People Born During the Great Depression.
2014
- Health on the Home Front: Infant Deaths and Industrial Accidents During Mobilization for World War II,”
2014
- “Saving the Neighborhood: Complementary Insights from Housing Markets in the 1920s and 1930s.”
2014
- Did the new deal solidify the 1932 Democratic realignment?
2013
- Second World War spending and local economic activity in US counties, 1939-58
2013
- “The Impact of the AAA on Farm Wages,” with Michael Haines and Paul Rhode. Presented at the NBER-Development of the American Economy Sessions at the Summer Institute. Cambridge, MA, July 23, 2012.
2013
- Comparisons of weekly hours over the past century and the importance of work-sharing policies in the 1930s
2013
- New deal or no deal in the Cotton South: The effect of the AAA on the agricultural labor structure
2013
- Comparisons of Weekly Hours Over the Past Century and the Importance of Work Sharing Policies in the 1930's
2013
- Agricultural policy, migration, and malaria in the United States in the 1930s
2012
- Relief during the great depression in australia and america
2012
- Banking crises and mortality during the Great Depression: Evidence from US urban populations, 1929-1937
2012
- Creating a Broader Context for Research on Coal Miners. Review Essay for three books. Reviews of Thomas G. Andrews. Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War. Cambridge, Massachussetts: Harvard University Press, 2008; Leighton S. James. The Politics of Identity and Civil Society in Britain and Germany: Miners in the Ruhr and south Wales, 1890-1926. Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 2008; and Ronald L. Lewis. Welsh Americans: A History of Assimilation in the Coalfields. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 2008
2011
- The influence of the Home Owners' loan corporation on housing markets during the 1930s
2011
- Editors' notes
2011
- The New Deal, race, and home ownership in the 1920s and 1930s
2011
- The dynamics of relief spending and the private urban labor market during the New Deal
2010
- US Monetary and Fiscal Policy in the 1930s
2010
- The effect of internal migration on local labor markets: American cities during the great depression
2010
- A patchwork safety net: A survey of cliometric studies of income maintenance programs in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century
2010
- Striking at the roots of crime: The impact of welfare spending on crime during the great depression
2010
- Welfare spending and mortality rates for the elderly before the Social Security era
2010
- Lifting the curse of dimensionality: measures of the states' labor legislation climate in the United States during the progressive era
2009
- The New Deal
2008
- The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression. By Amity Shlaes. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2007. Pp. x, 464. $26.95.
2008
- Measuring the Intensity of State Labor Regulation During the Progressive Era
2008
- Origins of American Health Insurance: A History of Industrial Sickness Funds. By John. E. Murray. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. xiv, 313. $40.
2008
- Government and the Economy
2007
- Births, deaths, and New Deal relief during the Great Depression
2007
- The impact of New Deal expenditures on mobility during the Great Depression
2006
- Did New Deal grant programs stimulate local economies? A study of Federal grants and retail sales during the Great Depression
2005
- Price V. FishbackReview of Werner Troesken's water, race and disease2004MIT PressCambridge, MA0-262-20148-8pp. xvii, 251
2005
- Looking for Work, Searching for Workers: American Labor Markets During Industrialization. By Joshua L. Rosenbloom. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xvi, 208. $20.00, paper.
2003
- Can the New Deal's three Rs be rehabilitated? A program-by-program, county-by-county analysis
2003
- The Evolution of Retirement: An American Economic History, 1880--1990. By Dora Costa. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 234. $40.00,\pounds 31.95, cloth; $19.00,\pounds 13.50, paper.
2001
- The Impact of the New Deal on Black and White Infant Mortality in the South
2001
- The impact of institutional change on compensating wage differentials for accident risk: South Korea, 1984--1990
1999
- The Impact of Institutional Change on Compensating Wage Differentials for Accident Risk: South Korea, 1984-1990
1999
- Review of Couch, Jim; II, William F. Shughart, The Political Economy of the New Deal
1999
- Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism Since the New Deal. By Sanford Jacoby. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 345. $35.00.
1999
- The Business of Benevolence: Industrial Paternalism in Progressive America. By Andrea Tone. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997. Pp. xxi, 264. $39.95.
1999
- Safety First: Technology, Labor, and Business in the Building of American Work Safety, 1870--1939. By Mark Aldrich. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. Pp. xx, 415. $49.95.
1998
- Operations of Unfettered Labor Markets: Exit and Voice in American Labor Markets at the Turn of the Century
1998
- The Adoption of Workers' Compensation in the United States, 1900-\`O1930
1998
- The adoption of workers' compensation in the United States, 1900-1930
1998
- The Political Economy of Workers' Compensation Benefit Levels, 1910--1930
1998
- How Minnesota adopted workers' compensation
1998
- The Durable Experiment: State Insurance of Workers' Compensation Risk in the Early Twentieth Century
1996
- Precautionary saving, insurance, and the origins of workers' compensation
1996
- Did workers pay for the passage of workers' compensation laws?
1995
- Nonfatal accident compensation and the common law at the turn of the century
1995
- An alternative view of violence in labor disputes in the early 1900s: the Bituminous Coal Industry, 1890--1930
1995
- The Political Economy of Workers' Compensation in the Early Twentieth Century
1994
- Institutional Change, Compensating Differentials, and Accident Risk in American Railroding, 1892--1945
1993
- The economics of company housing: Historical perspectives from the coal fields
1992
- “Square Deal” or Raw Deal? Market Compensation for Workplace Disamenities, 1884--1903
1992
- Coal Towns: Life, Work, and Culture in Company Towns of Southern Appalachia, 1880--1960. By Crandall A. Shifflett. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press, 1991. Pp. xx, 259. $34.95.
1992
- Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America's Bloody Coal Industry. By Priscilla Long. New York: Paragon House, 1989. Pp. xxv, 420. $24.95.
1991
- Narrowing the black-white gap in child literacy in 1910: the roles of school inputs and family inputs
1991
- SEPARATE-BUT-UNEQUAL SCHOOLS AND THE EDUCATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT OF BLACK AND WHITE CHILDREN, I900-I 940
1991
- Legacy of the Ludlow Massacre: A Chapter in American Industrial Relations. By Howard M. Gitelman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1988. Pp. xv, 355. $29.95.
1989
- Debt peonage in postbellum Georgia
1989
- The quality of services in company towns: Sanitation in coal towns during the 1920s
1989
- Can competition among employers reduce governmental discrimination? Coal companies and segregated schools in West Virginia in the early 1900s
1989
- Firm-specific evidence on racial wage differentials and workforce segregation in Hawaii's sugar industry
1989
- ARE ESTIMATES OF SEX DISCRIMINATION BY EMPLOYERS ROBUST? THE USE OF NEVER-MARRIEDS
1989
- Black Coal Miners in America: Race, Class, and Community Conflict, 1780-1980. By Ronald L. Lewis. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1987. Pp. xv, 239. $25.00.
1988
- Convicts, Coal, and the Banner Mine Tragedy. By Robert David Ward and William Warren Rogers. University: University of Alabama Press, 1987. Pp. x, 159. $19.95.
1988
- Out of the Crucible: Black Steelworkers in Western Pennsylvania, 1875--1980. By Dennis C. Dickerson. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986. Pp. xiv, 323. $39.50 cloth, $12.95 paper.
1987
- Liability rules and accident prevention in the workplace: empirical evidence from the early twentieth century
1987
- More Deadly than War: Pacific Coast Logging, 1827--1981. By Andrew Mason Prouty. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1985. Pp. xxvii, 252. $30.00.
1986
- Workplace safety during the progressive era: Fatal accidents in bituminous coal mining, 1912-1923
1986
- Did Coal Miners “Owe Their Souls to the Company Store”? Theory and Evidence from the Early 1900s
1986
- The Kingdom of Coal: Work, Enterprise and Ethnic Communities in the Mine Fields. By Donald L. Miller and Richard E. Sharpless. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985. Pp. xxii, 360. $35.00 cloth, $17.95 paper.
1986
- Discrimination on Nonwage Margins: Safety in the West Virginia Coal Industry, 1906--1925
1985
- Fire in the Hole: Miners and Managers in the American Coal Industry. By Curtis Seltzer. Lexington: The University of Kentucky Press, 1985. Pp. xii, 276. $28.00.
1985
- Segregation in job hierarchies: West Virginia coal mining, 1906--1932
1984
- The Distribution of the Income in the Great Depression: Preliminary State Estimates
1983