Dora L. Costa

Institution: University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA)

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

Homepage: http://www.econ.ucla.edu/costa/

First Publication: 1993

Most Recent: 2023

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	0.00	2.02	0.00	2.02	57%
Last 10 Years	0.00	0.00	3.20	0.50	3.70	62%
All Time	64.58	12.11	30.95	2.52	110.16	99%

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 37

Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 58.23

Publications (37)

Year	Article	Journal	Tier	Authors
2023	Overweight grandsons and grandfathers’ starvation exposure	Journal of Health Economics	B	1
2020	Wartime health shocks and the postwar socioeconomic status and mortality of union army veterans and their children	Journal of Health Economics	B	3
2018	Persistent social networks: Civil war veterans who fought together co-locate in later life	Regional Science and Urban Economics	B	4
2017	Death and the Media: Infectious Disease Reporting During the Health Transition	Economica	C	2
2015	Declining Mortality Inequality within Cities during the Health Transition	American Economic Review	S	2
2013	Do liberal home owners consume less electricity? A test of the voluntary restraint hypothesis	Economics Letters	C	2
2012	Understanding the Solar Home price premium: Electricity generation and “Green” social status	European Economic Review	B	4
2011	Electricity Consumption and Durable Housing: Understanding Cohort Effects	American Economic Review	S	2
2010	Pensions and Retirement Among Black Union Army Veterans	Journal of Economic History	B	1
2007	Surviving Andersonville: The Benefits of Social Networks in POW Camps	American Economic Review	S	2
2007	Deserters, Social Norms, and Migration	Journal of Law and Economics	B	2
2006	Forging a New Identity: The Costs and Benefits of Diversity in Civil War Combat Units for Black Slaves and Freemen	Journal of Economic History	B	2
2004	The Measure of Man and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from the Gould Sample	Journal of Economic History	B	1
2004	Health and Labor Force Participation over the Life Cycle: Evidence from the Past. Edited by Dora L. Costa. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 343. $75.00	Journal of Economic History	B	1
2004	Race and Pregnancy Outcomes in the Twentieth Century: A Long-Term Comparison	Journal of Economic History	B	1
2004	Changes in the Value of Life, 1940--1980	Journal of Risk and Uncertainty	B	2
2003	The Rising Price of Nonmarket Goods	American Economic Review	S	2
2003	Understanding the American Decline in Social Capital, 1952–1998	Kyklos	C	2
2003	Understanding mid-life and older age mortality declines: evidence from Union Army veterans	Journal of Econometrics	A	1
2003	Cowards and Heroes: Group Loyalty in the American Civil War	Quarterly Journal of Economics	S	2
2001	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.	Journal of Economic History	B	1
2001	Aggregation, rank, and some historical Engel curves	Economics Letters	C	1
2001	Estimating Real Income in the United States from 1888 to 1994: Correcting CPI Bias Using Engel Curves	Journal of Political Economy	S	1
2000	Power Couples: Changes in the Locational Choice of the College Educated, 1940–1990	Quarterly Journal of Economics	S	2
2000	The Wage and the Length of the Work Day: From the 1890s to 1991.	Journal of Labor Economics	A	1
1999	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.	Journal of Economic History	B	1
1999	A house of her own: old age assistance and the living arrangements of older nonmarried women	Journal of Public Economics	A	1
1998	The Evolution of Retirement: Summary of a Research Project.	American Economic Review	S	1
1998	The Unequal Work Day: A Long-Term View.	American Economic Review	S	1
1998	Unequal at Birth: A Long-Term Comparison of Income and Birth Weight	Journal of Economic History	B	1
1997	Displacing the Family: Union Army Pensions and Elderly Living Arrangements.	Journal of Political Economy	S	1
1996	Health and Labor Force Participation of Older Men, 1900–1991	Journal of Economic History	B	1
1995	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.	Journal of Economic History	B	1
1995	Health, Income, and Retirement: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century America	Journal of Economic History	B	1
1995	Agricultural Decline and the Secular Rise in Male Retirement Rates	Explorations in Economic History	B	1
1995	Pensions and Retirement: Evidence from Union Army Veterans	Quarterly Journal of Economics	S	1
1993	Height, Weight, Wartime Stress, and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from the Union Army Records	Explorations in Economic History	B	1