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William J. Collins

Institution: Vanderbilt University

Primary Field: Economic History (weighted toward more recent publications)

First Publication: 1998

Most Recent: 2021

RePEc ID: pco315 ↗

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.02: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period S (4x) A (2x) B (1x) C (½x) Total Percentile
Last 5 Years 0.00 4.04 4.37 0.00 8.41 93%
Last 10 Years 0.00 4.04 6.39 0.50 10.93 90%
All Time 12.11 14.13 43.73 2.52 72.49 98%

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 40
Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 54.52

Publications (40)

Year Article Journal Tier Authors
2025 Introduction to special issue of explorations in economic history on the impacts of World War II on the U.S. economy Explorations in Economic History B 3
2025 World War II service and the GI Bill: New evidence on selection and veterans’ outcomes from linked census records Explorations in Economic History B 2
2024 Black Americans’ Landholdings and Economic Mobility after Emancipation: Evidence from the Census of Agriculture and Linked Records Journal of Economic History B 3
2023 Working Their Way Up? US Immigrants' Changing Labor Market Assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration American Economic Journal: Applied Economics A 2
2022 African American Intergenerational Economic Mobility since 1880 American Economic Journal: Applied Economics A 2
2021 The Great Migration of Black Americans from the US South: A guide and interpretation Explorations in Economic History B 1
2019 The economic assimilation of Irish Famine migrants to the United States Explorations in Economic History B 2
2019 Unions and the Great Compression of wage inequality in the US at mid‐century: evidence from local labour markets Economic History Review C 2
2018 Unions, workers, and wages at the peak of the American labor movement Explorations in Economic History B 2
2015 Looking Forward: Positive and Normative Views of Economic History's Future Journal of Economic History B 1
2015 The Great Migration in Black and White: New Evidence on the Selection and Sorting of Southern Migrants Journal of Economic History B 2
2014 Selection and Economic Gains in the Great Migration of African Americans: New Evidence from Linked Census Data American Economic Journal: Applied Economics A 2
2013 Slum Clearance and Urban Renewal in the United States American Economic Journal: Applied Economics A 2
2011 Did Improvements in Household Technology Cause the Baby Boom? Evidence from Electrification, Appliance Diffusion, and the Amish American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics A 2
2011 Race and Home Ownership from the End of the Civil War to the Present American Economic Review S 2
2011 Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South, 1865–1960. By Rebecca Sharpless. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010. Pp. xxix, 273. $35.00, cloth. Journal of Economic History B 1
2008 The Economics of the Great Depression: A Twenty-First Century Look Back at the Economics of the Interwar Era. By Randall E. Parker. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2007. Pp. xi, 257. £69.95, cloth; £29.95, paper. Journal of Economic History B 1
2007 Government and the American Economy: A New History. By Price Fishback, Robert Higgs, Gary D. Libecap, John Joseph Wallis, Stanley L. Engerman, Jeffrey Rogers Hummel, Sumner J. La Croix, Robert A. Margo, Robert A. McGuire, Richard Sylla, Lee J. Alston, Joseph P. Ferrie, Mark Guglielmo, E. C. PasourJr., Randal R. Rucker, and Werner Troesken. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. xix, 613. $85, cloth; $35, paper. Journal of Economic History B 1
2007 The Economic Aftermath of the 1960s Riots in American Cities: Evidence from Property Values Journal of Economic History B 2
2007 A neighborhood-level view of riots, property values, and population loss: Cleveland 1950-1980 Explorations in Economic History B 2
2006 The Wage Gains of African-American Women in the 1940s Journal of Economic History B 2
2006 Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition. Edited by Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch, and Gavin Wright. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. $990. Pricing varies for the online version. Journal of Economic History B 1
2005 Water, Race, and Disease. By Werner Troesken. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004. Pp. xvii, 251. $35.00. Journal of Economic History B 1
2004 The housing market impact of state-level anti-discrimination laws, 1960-1970 Journal of Urban Economics A 1
2004 The Declining Contribution of Socioeconomic Disparities to the Racial Gap in Infant Mortality Rates, 1920‐1970 Southern Economic Journal C 2
2003 The political economy of state-level fair employment laws, 1940-1964 Explorations in Economic History B 1
2003 Race and the value of owner-occupied housing, 1940-1990 Regional Science and Urban Economics B 2
2001 Race, Roosevelt, and Wartime Production: Fair Employment in World War II Labor Markets American Economic Review S 1
2001 The Impact of International Trade on Wages. Edited by Robert C. Feenstra. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. Pp. ix, 406. $62.00. Journal of Economic History B 1
2001 Capital-Goods Prices and Investment, 1870–1950 Journal of Economic History B 2
2001 Race and Home Ownership: A Century-Long View Explorations in Economic History B 2
2000 Still the Promised City? African-Americans and New Immigrants in Postindustrial New York. By Roger Waldinger. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996. Pp. x, 374. $18.95, paper. Journal of Economic History B 1
2000 African-American Economic Mobility in the 1940s: A Portrait from the Palmer Survey Journal of Economic History B 1
2000 Divided Arsenal: Race and the American Stare During World War II. By Daniel Kryder. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xv, 301. $29.95. Journal of Economic History B 1
2000 Residential segregation and socioeconomic outcomes: When did ghettos go bad? Economics Letters C 2
1999 Labor Mobility in American and Indian Economic History Journal of Economic History B 1
1999 A New South Rebellion: The Battle Against Convict Labor in the Tennessee Coalfields, 1871–1896. By Karin A. Shapiro, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. pp. xvi, 333. $55.00, cloth; $22.50, paper. Journal of Economic History B 1
1999 Labor Mobility, Market Integration, and Wage Convergence in Late 19th Century India Explorations in Economic History B 1
1999 Southern Paternalism and the American Welfare State: Economics, Politics, and Institutions in the South, 1865‐1965 By Lee J. Alston and Joseph P. Ferric Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 171. $49.95. Southern Economic Journal C 1
1998 Warhogs: A History of War Profits in America. By Stuart D. Brandes. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997. Pp. ix, 371. $34.95. Journal of Economic History B 1