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Price Fishback is the Thomas R. Brown Professor of Economics at the University of Arizona, a Fellow of the TIAA-CREF Institute, and a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research. He and co-author Shawn Kantor were awarded a Paul Samuelson Certificate of Excellence by the TIAA-CREF Institute for their book A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers’ Compensation (2000). They also received the Lester Prize for Outstanding Book in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations by the Industrial Relation Sections at Princeton University. His other books include Well Worth Saving: How the New Deal Safeguarded Homeownership (2013); Government and the American Economy: A New History (2007) and Soft Coal, Hard Choices: The Economic Welfare of Bituminous Coal Miners, 1890-1930 (1992).
Price is the current Executive Director of the Economic History Association (EHA) and served as co-editor of The Journal of Economic History from 2008 to 2012. The EHA has twice awarded him the Arthur Cole Prize for Best Article in the Journal of Economic History (1997/98 and 2014/15). The EHA also awarded him the Jonathan Hughes Prize for Excellence in Teaching Economic History in 2015. Price is a Fellow of the Cliometrics Society and was one of the organizers of the Cliometrics Conference between 1996 and 2008. The term “cliometrics” was coined in the 1960’s and is a quantitative approach to economic history using economics and statistics. He has received funding from the National Science Foundation to pursue several current projects: studies of the boom, bust, and slow recovery in housing and mortgage markets in the 1920s and 1930s, the impact on the economy of New Deal programs, the impact of World War II, long run changes in climate and government policy and how they affect agriculture, and the response of state governments to the Great Depression and New Deal.
Fishback received his doctorate in economics at the University of Washington in 1983 after graduating from Butler University in Economics and Mathematics in 1977, where he is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Kappa Phi. He taught and performed research at the University of Georgia and the University of Texas in the 1980s, and then moved to the University of Arizona in 1990. Price has won a number of awards for teaching at the undergraduate, MBA, and PhD levels. He has supervised over 30 Ph.D. dissertations and served on committees for more than 60 other Ph.D. students.
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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)
Recent
- 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