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Dora L. Costa

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PhD Economics University of Chicago
Masters Economics University of Chicago

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According to Wikipedia, Dora L. Costa is an American economics professor at the University of California, Los Angeles where she is the Kenneth L. Sokoloff Professor of Economic History. She is also the department chair of the economics department. In addition to her teaching position, Costa is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research .

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Dora L. Costa's Published Works

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Energy Conservation "Nudges" and Environmentalist Ideology: Evidence from a Randomized Residential Electricity Field Experiment (2010) (640)
Civic Engagement and Community Heterogeneity: An Economist's Perspective (2002) (580)
Power Couples: Changes in the Locational Choice of the College Educated, 1940-1990 (1999) (553)
Understanding the American Decline in Social Capital, 1952-1998 (2003) (325)
Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States (1995) (264)
A theory of technophysio evolution, with some implications for forecasting population, health care costs, and pension costs (1997) (259)
Understanding the Solar Home Price Premium: Electricity Generation and "Green" Social Status (2011) (211)
Changes in the Value of Life, 1940–1980 (2002) (190)
Height, Weight, Wartime Stress, and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from the Union Army Records (1993) (169)
The Evolution of Retirement: An American Economic History, 1880-1990 (1999) (166)
Estimating Real Income in the United States from 1888 to 1994: Correcting CPI Bias Using Engel Curves (2001) (163)
The Evolution of Retirement: An American Economic History (1998) (160)
The Evolution of Retirement (1998) (153)
The Wage and the Length of the Work Day: From the 1890s to 1991 (1998) (144)
A House of Her Own: Old Age Assistance and the Living Arrangements of Older Nonmarried Women (1999) (141)
The Measure of Man and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from the Gould Sample (2002) (116)
Health and the Economy in the United States, from 1750 to the Present (2013) (103)
Displacing the Family: Union Army Pensions and Elderly Living Arrangements (1997) (98)
Health and Labor Force Participation of Older Men, 1900–1991 (1994) (91)
Height, Wealth, and Disease among the Native-born in the Rural, Antebellum North (1993) (90)
Pensions and Retirement: Evidence from Union Army Veterans (1995) (88)
Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War (2008) (82)
Understanding Mid-Life and Older Age Mortality Declines: Evidence from Union Army Veterans (2000) (67)
Changing chronic disease rates and longterm declines in functional limitation among older men (2002) (67)
The Rising Price of Nonmarket Goods (2003) (63)
Less of a Luxury: The Rise of Recreation Since 1888 (1997) (59)
Electricity Consumption and Durable Housing: Understanding Cohort Effects (2011) (59)
Why Has California&Apos;S Residential Electricity Consumption Been so Flat Since the 1980s?: A Microeconometric Approach (2010) (58)
Intergenerational transmission of paternal trauma among US Civil War ex-POWs (2018) (56)
Becoming Oldest-Old: Evidence from Historical U.S. Data (2003) (50)
Hours of Work and the Fair Labor Standards Act: A Study of Retail and Wholesale Trade, 1938–1950 (1998) (49)
Health and Labor Force Participation over the Life Cycle: Evidence from the Past (2003) (48)
Race and Pregnancy Outcomes in the Twentieth Century: A Long-Term Comparison (2003) (45)
Unequal at Birth: A Long-Term Comparison of Income and Birth Weight (1998) (42)
PREDICTING OLDER AGE MORTALITY TRENDS (2005) (41)
Health, wartime stress, and unit cohesion: Evidence from Union Army veterans (2008) (41)
The Evolution of Retirement: Summary of a Research Project (1998) (39)
Health, Education and Income in the United States, 1820-2000 (2013) (35)
Race, infection, and arteriosclerosis in the past (2007) (34)
Do liberal home owners consume less electricity? A test of the voluntary restraint hypothesis (2013) (32)
Scarring and Mortality Selection Among Civil War POWs: A Long-Term Mortality, Morbidity, and Socioeconomic Follow-Up (2010) (29)
Forging a New Identity: The Costs and Benefits of Diversity in Civil War Combat Units for Black Slaves and Freemen (2004) (28)
The Unequal Work Day: A Long-Term View (1998) (23)
Agricultural Decline and the Secular Rise in Male Retirement Rates (1994) (21)
Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth: Geography, Institutions, and the Knowledge Economy: Introduction to "Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth: Geography, Institutions, and the Knowledge Economy (2011) (19)
Declining Mortality Inequality within Cities during the Health Transition. (2015) (19)
Deserters, Social Norms, and Migration (2007) (18)
Displacing the Family: Union Army Pensions and Elderly Living Arrange- Ments (1996) (17)
The economics and demography of aging (2007) (17)
Persistent Social Networks: Civil War Veterans Who Fought Together Co-Locate in Later Life (2016) (15)
Union Army veterans, all grown up (2016) (14)
Heroes and Cowards (2008) (14)
The Political Economy of State Provided Health Insurance in the Progressive Era: Evidence from California (1995) (13)
Health, Stress, and Social Networks: Evidence from Union Army Veterans (2008) (11)
What is ‘Cliometrica’? (2007) (11)
Health, Income, and Retirement: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century America (1993) (10)
Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth (2011) (10)
Heroes & cowards : the social face of war (2008) (10)
The Rising Price of Non-Market Goods (2003) (9)
Displacing the Family (1998) (9)
Race and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from Union Army Veterans (2004) (8)
Shame and Ostracism: Union Army Deserters Leave Home (2004) (8)
Aggregation, rank, and some historical Engel curves (2001) (7)
Death and the Media: Infectious Disease Reporting During the Health Transition (2017) (7)
NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION: INPUT SUPPLIES AND DIRECTED TECHNICAL CHANGE BY W. WALKER HANLON1 (2015) (5)
Death and the Media: Asymmetries in Infectious Disease Reporting During the Health Transition (2015) (4)
Data set from the Union Army samples to study locational choice and social networks (2017) (4)
Wartime Health Shocks and the Postwar Socioeconomic Status and Mortality of Union Army Veterans and Their Children (2019) (3)
Pensions and Politics (1998) (3)
Leaders: Privilege, Sacrifice, Opportunity, and Personnel Economics in the American Civil War (2011) (3)
The Rise of the Leisured Class (1998) (3)
Pensions and Retirement Among Black Union Army Veterans (2010) (3)
The Health of Older Men in the Past (2009) (2)
Economics of health and mortality special feature: race, infection, and arteriosclerosis in the past. (2007) (2)
Explaining the Changing Dynamics of Unemployment: Evidence from Civil War Records (1993) (2)
Demand for Private and State-Provided Health Insurance in the 1910s: Evidence from California (2018) (2)
The Rise of Retirement Among African Americans: Evidence From Union Army Records (2008) (2)
The Homecoming of Heroes and Cowards (2008) (2)
Income and Retirement (1998) (1)
Appendix A: Union Army Pensions and Civil War Records (1998) (1)
The Problem of Old Age (1998) (1)
The Rise of Retirement Among African Americans: Wealth and Social Security Effects (2008) (1)
Race and Health in the Past : Infection and Arteriosclerosis (2006) (1)
Learning from the Past (2008) (1)
In Memorium: Robert W. Fogel (2013) (1)
PRELIMINARY—DO NOT CITE Birthing a Nation: The Effect of Fertility Control Access on the 19th Century Demographic Transition by (2009) (0)
States , 1820 – 2000 (2016) (0)
The Promise of Private Pensions: The First Hundred Years. By Steven A. Sass. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. Pp. viii, 332. $39.95 (1998) (0)
The Older Worker (1998) (0)
Why the U.S. Civil War (2008) (0)
Understanding social networks (2008) (0)
Health Shocks of the Father and Longevity of the Children's Children (2021) (0)
Erratum to: A theory of technophysio, with come implications for forecasting population, health care costs, and pension costs (1997) (0)
Handbook of Population and Family Economics. Two volumes. Edited by Mark R. Rosenzweig and Oded Stark. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1997. Volume 1A: Pp. xviii, 643; Volume 2A: Pp. xix, (1343–648). $110.00, each volume; $155.00, both volumes (1999) (0)
Front matter, Health and Labor Force Participation over the Life Cycle (2003) (0)
Chapter 3. Building the Armies (2009) (0)
Note from the editor (2010) (0)
PRELIMINARY—DO NOT CITE Birthing a Nation: The Effect of Abortion and Birth Control Access on the 19th Century Demographic Transition by (2009) (0)
Chapter 1. Loyalty and Sacrifice (2009) (0)
Appendix: Records and Collection Methods (2009) (0)
Chapter 5. POW Camp Survivors (2009) (0)
Participation of Civil War Veterans (2003) (0)
Introduction to "Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth: Geography, Institutions, and the Knowledge Economy (2008) (0)
Chapter 6. The Homecoming of Heroes and Cowards (2009) (0)
Facts of Life: The Social Construction of Vital Statistics, Ontario 1869–1952 . By George Emery. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993. Pp. xv, 243. $39.95. (1995) (0)
Work and Disease (1998) (0)
Economics of Health and Mortality (2007) (0)
In Memoriam: Ken Sokoloff (2007) (0)
Front Matter ("Table of Contents") (2021) (0)
Building the Armies (2008) (0)
Children and Grandchildren of Union Army Veterans: New Data Collections to Study the Persistence of Longevity and Socioeconomic Status Across Generations (2022) (0)
Overweight Grandsons and Grandfathers' Starvation Exposure (2022) (0)
5. The Older Worker (2019) (0)
Chapter 2. Why the U.S. Civil War (2009) (0)
The Evolution of Retirement: An American Economic History, 1880–1990. By Dora L. Costa. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. xiv, 234 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-226-11608-5.) (2001) (0)
Slaves Become Freemen (2008) (0)
Improving HIV/AIDS Care: Promoting HIV/AIDS Treatment Adherence Through Physician Peer Effects and Behavioral Incentives for Patients A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Economics by Chad (2017) (0)
Persistent Social Networks: Veterans Who Fought Together Co-Locate in Later Life (2016) (0)
POW Camp Survivors (2008) (0)
9. Looking to the Future (2019) (0)
Chapter 4. Heroes and Cowards (2009) (0)
Loyalty and Sacrifice (2008) (0)
Health, Education, and Welfare: Explaining Long-Term Trends in Health and LongevityRobert W. Fogel. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Pp. xvi, 174. $27.99, paper. ISBN 978-1-107-02791-6, cloth; 978-1-107-66581-1, pbk. JEL 2012–1316 (2013) (0)
Replication data for: Surviving Andersonville: The Benefits of Social Networks in POW Camps (2007) (0)
Chapter 7. Slaves Become Freemen (2009) (0)
Chapter 8. Learning from the Past (2009) (0)

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