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Working Papers

2009

1. Welfare Spending and Mortality Rates for the Elderly Before the Social Security Era
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2008

2. Lifting the Curse of Dimensionality: Measures of the Labor Legislation Climate in the States During the Progressive Era
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

2007

3. Migration Creation, Diversion, and Retention: New Deal Grants and Migration: 1935-1940
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
   Also in NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2007)
4. Striking at the Roots of Crime: The Impact of Social Welfare Spending on Crime During the Great Depression
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
5. The Dynamics of Relief Spending and the Private Urban Labor Market During the New Deal
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
6. The Effect of Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets: American Cities During the Great Depression
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2006

7. Did Big Government's Largesse Help the Locals? The Implications of WWII Spending for Local Economic Activity, 1939-1958
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

2005

8. Births, Deaths, and New Deal Relief during the Great Depression
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
   See also Journal Article in The Review of Economics and Statistics (2007)
9. Politics, Relief, and Reform: The Transformation of America's Social Welfare System during the New Deal
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
10. The Irony of Reform: Did Large Employers Subvert Workplace Safety Reform, 1869 to 1930?
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
    See also Chapter (2006)

2002

11. Can the New Deal's Three R's Be Rehabilitated? A Program-by-Program, County-by-County Analysis
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
    See also Journal Article in Explorations in Economic History (2003)
12. The Welfare of Children During the Great Depression
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

2001

13. Do Federal Programs Affect Internal Migration? The Impact of New Deal Expenditures on Mobility During the Great Depression
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations
14. The Impact of New Deal Expenditures on Local Economic Activity: An Examination of Retail Sales, 1929-1939
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

1997

15. Operations of "Unfettered" Labor Markets at the Turn of the Century
    NBER Historical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

1996

16. The Adoption of Workers' Compensation in the United States 1900-1930
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
    See also Journal Article in Journal of Law & Economics (1998)
17. The Political Economy of Workers' Compensation Benefit Levels, 1910-1930
    NBER Historical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
    See also Journal Article in Explorations in Economic History (1998)

1994

18. A Prelude to the Welfare State: Compulsory State Insurance and Workers' Compensation in Minnesota, Ohio, and Washington, 1911-1919
    NBER Historical Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
19. Did Workers Pay for the Passage of Workers' Compensation Laws?
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
    See also Journal Article in The Quarterly Journal of Economics (1995)
20. Insurance Rationing and the Origins of Workers' Compensation
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

1988

21. Firm-Specific Evidence on Racial Wage Differentials and Workforce Segregation in Hawaii's Sugar Industry
    Working Papers, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Department of Economics
    See also Journal Article in Explorations in Economic History (1989)

Journal Articles

2008

1. 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
   The Journal of Economic History, 2008, 68, (01), 313-315
2. The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression. By Amity Shlaes. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2007. Pp. x, 464. $26.95
   The Journal of Economic History, 2008, 68, (01), 325-328

2007

3. Births, Deaths, and New Deal Relief during the Great Depression
   The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2007, 89, (1), 1-14 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2005)

2006

4. The impact of New Deal expenditures on mobility during the Great Depression
   Explorations in Economic History, 2006, 43, (2), 179-222 View citations

2005

5. Did New Deal Grant Programs Stimulate Local Economies? A Study of Federal Grants and Retail Sales During the Great Depression
   The Journal of Economic History, 2005, 65, (01), 36-71
6. Price V. Fishback, Review of Werner Troesken's water, race and disease, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (2004) ISBN 0-262-20148-8 pp. xvii, 251
   Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2005, 35, (6), 883-884

2003

7. Can the New Deal's three Rs be rehabilitated? A program-by-program, county-by-county analysis
   Explorations in Economic History, 2003, 40, (3), 278-307 View citations
   See also Working Paper (2002)
8. 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
   The Journal of Economic History, 2003, 63, (01), 286-288

2001

9. 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
   The Journal of Economic History, 2001, 61, (01), 224-226
10. The Impact of the New Deal on Black and White Infant Mortality in the South
    Explorations in Economic History, 2001, 38, (1), 93-122 View citations

1999

11. Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism Since the New Deal. By Sanford Jacoby. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xii, 345. $35.00
    The Journal of Economic History, 1999, 59, (03), 836-838
12. The Business of Benevolence: Industrial Paternalism in Progressive America. By Andrea Tone. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997. Pp. xxi, 264. $39.95
    The Journal of Economic History, 1999, 59, (03), 833-835
13. The Impact of Institutional Change on Compensating Wage Differentials for Accident Risk: South Korea, 1984-1990
    Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 1999, 18, (3), 231-48 View citations

1998

14. Operations of "Unfettered" Labor Markets: Exit and Voice in American Labor Markets at the Turn of the Century
    Journal of Economic Literature, 1998, 36, (2), 722-765 View citations
15. 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
    The Journal of Economic History, 1998, 58, (01), 278-279
16. The Adoption of Workers' Compensation in the United States, 1900-1930
    Journal of Law & Economics, 1998, 41, (2), 305-41
    See also Working Paper (1996)
17. The Political Economy of Workers' Compensation Benefit Levels, 1910-1930
    Explorations in Economic History, 1998, 35, (2), 109-139
    See also Working Paper (1996)

1996

18. Precautionary Saving, Insurance, and the Origins of Workers' Compensation
    Journal of Political Economy, 1996, 104, (2), 419-42 View citations
19. The Durable Experiment: State Insurance of Workers' Compensation Risk in the Early Twentieth Century
    The Journal of Economic History, 1996, 56, (04), 809-836 View citations

1995

20. Did Workers Pay for the Passage of Workers' Compensation Laws?
    The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1995, 110, (3), 713-42 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1994)
21. Nonfatal Accident Compensation and the Common Law at the Turn of the Century
    Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 1995, 11, (2), 406-33

1993

22. Institutional Change, Compensating Differentials, and Accident Risk in American Railroding, 1892?1945
    The Journal of Economic History, 1993, 53, (04), 796-824

1992

23. ?Square Deal? or Raw Deal? Market Compensation for Workplace Disamenities, 1884?1903
    The Journal of Economic History, 1992, 52, (04), 826-848
24. 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
    The Journal of Economic History, 1992, 52, (03), 730-731
25. The Economics of Company Housing: Historical Perspectives from the Coal Fields
    Journal of Law, Economics and Organization, 1992, 8, (2), 346-65 View citations

1991

26. Narrowing the Black-White Gap in Child Literacy in 1910: The Roles of School Inputs and Family Inputs
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1991, 73, (4), 725-28
27. 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
    The Journal of Economic History, 1991, 51, (04), 991-992

1989

28. Are Estimates of Sex Discrimination by Employers Robust? The Use of Never-Marrieds
    Economic Inquiry, 1989, 27, (2), 271-85
29. Can Competition among Employers Reduce Governmental Discrimination? Coal Companies and Segregated Schools in West Virginia in the Early 1900s
    Journal of Law & Economics, 1989, 32, (2), 311-28 View citations
30. Debt peonage in postbellum Georgia
    Explorations in Economic History, 1989, 26, (2), 219-236 View citations
31. Firm-specific evidence on racial wage differentials and workforce segregation in Hawaii's sugar industry
    Explorations in Economic History, 1989, 26, (4), 403-423 View citations
    See also Working Paper (1988)
32. 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
    The Journal of Economic History, 1989, 49, (03), 781-783
33. The Quality of Services in Company Towns: Sanitation in Coal Towns During the 1920s
    The Journal of Economic History, 1989, 49, (01), 125-144

1988

34. 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
    The Journal of Economic History, 1988, 48, (02), 496-498
35. 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
    The Journal of Economic History, 1988, 48, (01), 219-220

1987

36. 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
    The Journal of Economic History, 1987, 47, (02), 573-574

1986

37. Did Coal Miners ?Owe Their Souls to the Company Store?? Theory and Evidence from the Early 1900s
    The Journal of Economic History, 1986, 46, (04), 1011-1029
38. More Deadly than War: Pacific Coast Logging, 1827?1981. By Andrew Mason Prouty. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1985. Pp. xxvii, 252. $30.00
    The Journal of Economic History, 1986, 46, (04), 1097-1098
39. 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
    The Journal of Economic History, 1986, 46, (03), 871-872
40. Workplace safety during the progressive era: Fatal accidents in bituminous coal mining, 1912-1923
    Explorations in Economic History, 1986, 23, (3), 269-298

1985

41. Discrimination on Nonwage Margins: Safety in the West Virginia Coal Industry, 1906-1925
    Economic Inquiry, 1985, 23, (4), 651-69
42. 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
    The Journal of Economic History, 1985, 45, (03), 755-756

1984

43. Employment Conditions of Blacks in the Coal Industry, 1900?1930
    The Journal of Economic History, 1984, 44, (02), 605-608
44. Segregation in Job Hierarchies: West Virginia Coal Mining, 1906?1932
    The Journal of Economic History, 1984, 44, (03), 755-774

1983

45. The Distribution of the Income in the Great Depression: Preliminary State Estimates
    The Journal of Economic History, 1983, 43, (01), 217-230 View citations

Books

2000

1. A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers' Compensation
   NBER Books, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations

Chapters

2006

1. Politics, Relief, and Reform. Roosevelt’s Efforts to Control Corruption and Political Manipulation during the New Deal
   A chapter in Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History, 2006, pp 343-372
2. The Irony of Reform. Did Large Employers Subvert Workplace Safety Reform, 1869 to 1930?
   A chapter in Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's Economic History, 2006, pp 285-318
   See also Working Paper (2005)

2000

3. Appendixes
   A chapter in A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers' Compensation, 2000, pp 205-286
4. Compensation for Accidents before Workers' Compensation
   A chapter in A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers' Compensation, 2000, pp 28-53
5. Epilogue. Lessons from the Origins of Workers' Compensation
   A chapter in A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers' Compensation, 2000, pp 197-204
6. Framing the Issues
   A chapter in A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers' Compensation, 2000, pp 8-27
7. Introduction. Why Study the Origins of Workers' Compensation?
   A chapter in A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers' Compensation, 2000, pp 1-7
8. References
   A chapter in A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers' Compensation, 2000, pp 287-302
9. The Battles over Benefit Levels, 1910-1930
   A chapter in A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers' Compensation, 2000, pp 172-196
10. The Economic Impact of the Switch to Workers' Compensation
    A chapter in A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers' Compensation, 2000, pp 54-87
11. The Fractious Disputes over State Insurance
    A chapter in A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers' Compensation, 2000, pp 148-171
12. The Political Process of Adopting Workers' Compensation
    A chapter in A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers' Compensation, 2000, pp 120-147
13. The Timing of Workers' Compensation's Enactment in the United
    A chapter in A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers' Compensation, 2000, pp 88-119

1994

14. Coalition Formation and the Adoption of Workers? Compensation: The Case of Missouri, 1911 to 1926
    A chapter in The Regulated Economy: A Historical Approach to Political Economy, 1994, pp 259-298