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87: Health, Height and Welfare: Britain 1700-1980

Roderick Floud and Bernard Harris

86: Strikebreaking and the Labor Market in the United States, 1881-1874

Joshua Rosenbloom

85: The Use of the Census to Estimate Childhood Mortality: Comparisons fromthe 1900 and 1910 United States Census Public Use Samples

Michael Haines and Samuel H. Preston

84: America's Only Peacetime Inflation: The 1970s

J. Bradford De Long

83: The Paradox of Planning: The Controlled Materials Plan of World War II

John Landon-Lane and Hugh Rockoff

82: Were Free Southern Farmers "Driven to Indolence" by Slavery? A Stochastic Production Frontier Approach

Elizabeth B. Field-Hendre and Lee Craig

81: Two Views of the British Industrial Revolution

Peter Temin

80: Long Term Marriage Patterns in the United States from Colonial Times tothe Present

Michael Haines

79: Financing the American Corporation: The Changing Menu of Financial Rela-tionships

Charles Calomiris and Carlos Ramirez

78: The Extent of the Labor Market in the United States, 1850-1914

Joshua Rosenbloom

77: From Plowshares to Swords: The American Economy in World War II

Hugh Rockoff

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

Dora Costa and Richard Steckel

75: Percentiles of Modern Height Standards for Use in Historical Research

Richard Steckel

74: Fixing the Facts: Editing of the 1880 U.S. Census of Occupations with Implications for Long-Term Trends and the Sociology of Official Statistics

Susan B. Carter and Richard Sutch

73: Myth of the Industrial Scrap Heap: A Revisionist View of Turn-of-the- Century American Retirement

Susan B. Carter and Richard Sutch

72: The Farm-Nonfarm Wage Gap in the Antebellum United States: Evidence fromthe 1850 and 1860 Censuses of Social Statistics

Robert Margo

71: A New Sample of Americans Linked from the 1850 Public Use Micro Sampleofthe Federal Census of Population to the1860 Federal Census Manuscript Sched

Joseph P. Ferrie

70: Fertility and Marriage in New York State in the Era of the Civil War

Michael Haines and Avery M. Guest

69: Irregular Production and Time-out-of-Work in American Manufacturing Industry in 1870 and 1880: Some Preliminary Estimates

Jeremy Atack and Fred Bateman

68: Peopling the Pampa: On the Impact of Mass Migration to the River Plate, 1870-1914

Alan Taylor

67: A Comparison of the Stability and Efficiency of the Canadian and American Banking Systems 1870-1925

Michael Bordo and Angela Redish

66: Factor Endowments: Institutions, and Differential Paths of Growth Among New World Economies: A View from Economic Historians of the United States

Stanley L. Engerman and Kenneth Sokoloff

65: Cliometrics and the Nobel

Claudia Goldin

64: A Prelude to the Welfare State: Compulsory State Insurance and Workers' Compensation in Minnesota, Ohio, and Washington, 1911-1919

Shawn Kantor

63: The Price of Housing in New York City, 1830-1860

Robert A. Mareo

62: The Great Depression

Peter Temin

61: Was There a National Labor Market at the End of the Nineteenth Century? Intercity and Interregional Variation in Male Earnings in Manufacturing

Joshua Rosenbloom

60: Three Phases of Argentine Economic Growth

Alan Taylor

59: Estimated Life Tables for the United States, 1850-1900

Michael Haines

58: Labor Markets in the Twentieth Century

Claudia Goldin

57: Appendix to: "How America Graduated from High School, 1910 to 1960", Construction of State-Level Secondary School Data

Claudia Goldin

56: The Population of the United States, 1790-1920

Michael Haines

55: Agricultural Decline and the Secular Rise in Male Retirement Rates

Dora Costa

54: The Relevance of Malthus for the Study of Mortality Today: Long-Run Influences on Health, Mortality, Labor Force Participation, and Population Growth

Robert Fogel

53: Employer Recruitment and the Integration of Industrial Labor Markets 1870-1914

Joshua Rosenbloom

52: The Meaning of Money in the Great Depression

Hugh Rockoff

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

Dora Costa

50: Price Wars and the Stability of Collusion: A Study of the Pre-World War I Bromine Industry

Margaret Levenstein

49: Vertical Restraints in the Bromine Cartel: The Role of Distributors in Facilitating Collusion

Margaret Levenstein

48: Mass Migration, Commodity Market Integration and Real Wage Convergence: The Late Nineteenth Century Atlantic Economy

Jeffrey Williamson, Kevin O'Rourke and Timothy Hatton

47: Late-Comers to Mass Emigration: The Latin Experience

Timothy Hatton and Jeffrey Williamson

46: Land, Labor and the Wage-Rental Ratio: Factor Price Convergence in the Late Nineteenth Century

Kevin O'Rourke, Alan Taylor and Jeffrey G. Williamsmn

45: Added and Discouraged Workers in the Late 1930s: A Re-Examination

T. Aldrich Finegan and Robert Margo

44: Explaining Black-White Wage Convergence, 1940-1950: The Role of the Great Compression

Robert Margo

43: What Drove the Mass Migrations from Europe in the Late Nineteenth Century?

Timothy Hatton and Jeffrey Williamson

42: 'Schemes of Practical Utility': Entrepreneurship and Innovation Among 'Great Inventors' in the United States, 1790-1865

B. Zorina Khan and Kenneth Sokoloff

41: International Migration and World Development: A Historical Perspective

Timothy Hatton and Jeffrey Williamson

40: The Labor Force in the Nineteenth Century

Robert Margo

39: Tall But Poor: Nutrition, Health, and Living Standards in Pre-Famine Ireland

S. Nicolas and Richard Steckel

38: Early Indicators of Later Work Levels, Disease, and Death

Robert Fogel and Larry T. Wimmer