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Working Papers

2024

1. Adjusting Labor Along The Intensive Margins
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
   Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2024)

2022

2. Days of Work Over a Half Century: The Rise of the Four-day Week
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)
   Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2022) View citations (1)
3. Immigration Disruptions and the Wages of Unskilled Labor in the 1920s
   Research Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
4. Keynes’s Treatise, Statistical Inference, and Statistical Practice in Interwar Economics in the United States
   SocArXiv, Center for Open Science
   See also Journal Article KEYNES’S TREATISE, STATISTICAL INFERENCE, AND STATISTICAL PRACTICE IN INTERWAR ECONOMICS IN THE UNITED STATES, Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Cambridge University Press (2021) (2021)

2018

5. Taking Time Use Seriously: Income, Wages And Price Discrimination
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (7)
   Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2018) View citations (7)

2016

6. Theory and Measurement: Emergence, Consolidation and Erosion of a Consensus
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (1)

2014

7. The Genealogy of the Labor Hoarding Concept
   Center for the History of Political Economy Working Paper Series, Center for the History of Political Economy
   See also Chapter The Genealogy of the Labor Hoarding Concept, Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, Emerald Group Publishing Limited (2015) View citations (1) (2015)

2012

8. Wage Discrimination over the Business Cycle
   IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) View citations (8)
   See also Journal Article Wage discrimination over the business cycle, IZA Journal of Labor Policy, Springer (2013) View citations (43) (2013)

2011

9. Cycles of Wage Discrimination
   NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (3)
   Also in IZA Discussion Papers, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) (2011) View citations (3)

1997

10. Business Success and Businesses' Beauty Capital
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (5)
    See also Journal Article Business success and businesses' beauty capital, Economics Letters, Elsevier (2000) View citations (49) (2000)

1995

11. Beauty, Productivity and Discrimination: Lawyers' Looks and Lucre
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (53)
    See also Journal Article Beauty, Productivity, and Discrimination: Lawyers' Looks and Lucre, Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press (1998) View citations (206) (1998)

1993

12. Beauty and the Labor Market
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc View citations (17)
    See also Journal Article Beauty and the Labor Market, American Economic Review, American Economic Association (1994) View citations (462) (1994)
13. The Development and Diffusion of Innovation in Russian Industry
    Working Papers, Michigan State - Econometrics and Economic Theory

1989

14. CHOICE AMONG WAGE-HOURS PACKAGES: AN AMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF LABOUR SUPPLY
    Working Papers, Michigan State - Econometrics and Economic Theory View citations (2)
15. Sleep and the Allocation of Time
    NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc
    See also Journal Article Sleep and the Allocation of Time, Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press (1990) View citations (245) (1990)

Journal Articles

2025

1. Days of Work over a Half Century: The Rise of the Four-Day Workweek
   ILR Review, 2025, 78, (1), 37-61

2021

2. KEYNES’S TREATISE, STATISTICAL INFERENCE, AND STATISTICAL PRACTICE IN INTERWAR ECONOMICS IN THE UNITED STATES
   Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2021, 43, (4), 590-603
   See also Working Paper Keynes’s Treatise, Statistical Inference, and Statistical Practice in Interwar Economics in the United States, SocArXiv (2022) (2022)

2020

3. Income, wages and household production theory
   Economics Letters, 2020, 192, (C)

2017

4. 2016 HES PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS: STATISTICAL INFERENCE IN ECONOMICS, 1920–1965: CHANGES IN MEANING AND PRACTICE
   Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2017, 39, (2), 149-173 View citations (6)

2014

5. Retrospectives: The Cyclical Behavior of Labor Productivity and the Emergence of the Labor Hoarding Concept
   Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2014, 28, (2), 197-212 View citations (83)

2013

6. Wage discrimination over the business cycle
   IZA Journal of Labor Policy, 2013, 2, (1), 1-19 View citations (43)
   See also Working Paper Wage Discrimination over the Business Cycle, IZA Discussion Papers (2012) View citations (8) (2012)

2012

7. Retrospectives: The Introduction of the Cobb-Douglas Regression
   Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2012, 26, (2), 223-36 View citations (9)

2011

8. Making Consumers Comfortable: The Early Decades of Air Conditioning in the United States
   The Journal of Economic History, 2011, 71, (4), 1078-1094 View citations (1)
9. The Introduction of the Cobb-Douglas Regression and Its Adoption by Agricultural Economists
   History of Political Economy, 2011, 43, (5), 235-257 View citations (3)

2008

10. Explaining the spread of residential air conditioning, 1955-1980
    Explorations in Economic History, 2008, 45, (4), 402-423 View citations (10)

2003

11. Claiming Behavior in Workers' Compensation
    Journal of Risk & Insurance, 2003, 70, (4), 759-780 View citations (19)

2001

12. Roundtable on Jan Golinski's Making Natural Knowledge: Constructivism and the History of Science Comments on Jan Golinski's Making Natural Knowledge
    Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 2001, 23, (2), 253-259

2000

13. Business success and businesses' beauty capital
    Economics Letters, 2000, 67, (2), 201-207 View citations (49)
    See also Working Paper Business Success and Businesses' Beauty Capital, NBER Working Papers (1997) View citations (5) (1997)
14. The Concept of Applied Economics: A History of Ambiguity and Multiple Meanings
    History of Political Economy, 2000, 32, (5), 1-24 View citations (12)

1999

15. Statistical Economics, 1900-1950
    History of Political Economy, 1999, 31, (4), 607-651 View citations (2)

1998

16. Beauty, Productivity, and Discrimination: Lawyers' Looks and Lucre
    Journal of Labor Economics, 1998, 16, (1), 172-201 View citations (206)
    See also Working Paper Beauty, Productivity and Discrimination: Lawyers' Looks and Lucre, NBER Working Papers (1995) View citations (53) (1995)
17. Innovation in Russian Industry: A Case Study of R&D in Transition
    Economic Development and Cultural Change, 1998, 46, (2), 233-62 View citations (1)

1996

18. A Citation Analysis of the Sources and Extent of Wesley Mitchell's Reputation
    History of Political Economy, 1996, 28, (2), 137-169 View citations (4)

1994

19. Beauty and the Labor Market
    American Economic Review, 1994, 84, (5), 1174-94 View citations (462)
    See also Working Paper Beauty and the Labor Market, NBER Working Papers (1993) View citations (17) (1993)
20. Private Sector Scientists and Engineers and the Transition to Management
    Journal of Human Resources, 1994, 29, (1), 82-107 View citations (12)

1991

21. A Bandwagon Effect in Personalized License Plates?
    Economic Inquiry, 1991, 29, (2), 375-88 View citations (17)

1990

22. Purpose and Evolution in Commons's Institutionalism
    History of Political Economy, 1990, 22, (1), 19-47 View citations (3)
23. Sleep and the Allocation of Time
    Journal of Political Economy, 1990, 98, (5), 922-43 View citations (245)
    See also Working Paper Sleep and the Allocation of Time, NBER Working Papers (1989) (1989)

1989

24. Choice among Wage-Hours Packages: An Empirical Investigation of Male Labor Supply
    Journal of Labor Economics, 1989, 7, (4), 415-37 View citations (27)

1988

25. Intertemporal Substitution and Hours Restrictions
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1988, 70, (2), 347-51 View citations (16)
26. Worker Preferences and Market Compensation for Job Risk
    The Review of Economics and Statistics, 1988, 70, (4), 660-67 View citations (31)

1985

27. Veblen, Twain, and the Connecticut Yankee: A Note
    History of Political Economy, 1985, 17, (1), 97-107 View citations (1)

Books

2020

1. Progress through Regression
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (1)

1993

2. ECONOMIC THOUGHT AND DISCOURSE IN THE 20TH CENTURY
   Books, Edward Elgar Publishing View citations (3)

Chapters

2015

1. The Genealogy of the Labor Hoarding Concept
   A chapter in A Research Annual, 2015, vol. 33, pp 125-161 View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper The Genealogy of the Labor Hoarding Concept, Center for the History of Political Economy (2014) (2014)

2012

2. A Detailed and Accurate Picture of American Institutionalism
   A chapter in Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology: A Research Annual, 2012, pp 161-167
3. Air Conditioning, Migration, and Climate-Related Wage and Rent Differentials
   A chapter in Research in Economic History, 2012, pp 1-41

2010

4. Comment on "Emerging Labor Market Trends and Workplace Safety and Health"
   A chapter in Labor in the New Economy, 2010, pp 453-456
5. H. Gregg Lewis
   Chapter 9 in The Elgar Companion to the Chicago School of Economics, 2010

1998

6. John R. Commons and the compatibility of neoclassical and institutional economics
   Chapter 3 in Economics and its Discontents, 1998, pp 40-55

1992

7. On the Attribution of Causality and Responsibility in Macroeconomics
   Palgrave Macmillan