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Robert Andrew Margo

Global rank #123 99%

Institution: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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

First Publication: 1982

Most Recent: 2024

RePEc ID: pma319 ↗

Publication Scores

Scores use coauthorship adjustment: α/n credit per paper, where n = number of authors. α = 2.01: calibrated so average adjusted count equals average raw count (a zero-sum adjustment).

Period S (4x) A (2x) B (1x) C (½x) Total
Last 5 Years 0.00 0.40 2.01 0.00 2.82
Last 10 Years 0.00 0.40 4.02 0.00 4.83
All Time 17.09 13.47 59.99 0.00 164.35

Publication Statistics

Raw Publications 67
Coauthorship-Adjusted Count 109.12

Publications (67)

Year Article Journal Tier Authors
2024 De-skilling: Evidence from late nineteenth century American manufacturing Explorations in Economic History B 3
2023 JUE Insight: Condominium development does not lead to gentrification Journal of Urban Economics A 5
2022 “Mechanization Takes Command?”: Powered Machinery and Production Times in Late Nineteenth-Century American Manufacturing Journal of Economic History B 3
2022 Industrialization and urbanization in nineteenth century America Regional Science and Urban Economics B 3
2016 Obama, Katrina, and the Persistence of Racial Inequality Journal of Economic History B 1
2013 A silver lining to white flight? White suburbanization and African–American homeownership, 1940–1980 Journal of Urban Economics A 2
2013 Sharing the Prize: The Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South. By Gavin Wright. Cambridge: Belknap Press. 2013. Pp. 368. $35.00, hardcover. Journal of Economic History B 1
2011 Race and Home Ownership from the End of the Civil War to the Present American Economic Review S 2
2011 The Economic History of the <em>American Economic Review</em>: A Century's Explosion of Economics Research American Economic Review S 1
2010 Natural Experiments in History. Edited by Jared Diamond and James A. Robinson. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010. Pp. 2, 278. $29.95. Journal of Economic History B 1
2008 Steam power, establishment size, and labor productivity growth in nineteenth century American manufacturing Explorations in Economic History B 3
2007 The Economic Aftermath of the 1960s Riots in American Cities: Evidence from Property Values Journal of Economic History B 2
2006 Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy. By Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. vii, 416. $35. Journal of Economic History B 1
2006 The impact of the Civil War on capital intensity and labor productivity in southern manufacturing Explorations in Economic History B 2
2005 Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom. By Heather Andrea Williams. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. Pp xii, 304. $29.95. Journal of Economic History B 1
2005 Understanding the Process of Economic Change. By Douglass C. North. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. Pp. vii, 187. $29.95. Journal of Economic History B 1
2005 Global Perspectives on Industrial Transformation in the American South. Edited by Susana Delfino and Michele Gillespie. New Currents in the History of Southern Economy and Society Series. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. Pp. vii, 240. $24.95, paper. Journal of Economic History B 1
2004 Skill Intensity and Rising Wage Dispersion in Nineteenth-Century American Manufacturing Journal of Economic History B 3
2003 Productivity in manufacturing and the length of the working day: evidence from the 1880 census of manufactures Explorations in Economic History B 3
2003 Race and the value of owner-occupied housing, 1940-1990 Regional Science and Urban Economics B 2
2002 PART-YEAR OPERATION IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN MANUFACTURING: EVIDENCE FROM THE 1870 AND 1880 CENSUSES Journal of Economic History B 3
2002 The Great Compression of the 1940s: The Public versus the Private Sector Explorations in Economic History B 2
2001 Race and Home Ownership: A Century-Long View Explorations in Economic History B 2
2001 A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers' Compensation By Price V. Fishback and Shawn Everett Kantor. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2000. Pp. xii, 316. $37.50. Southern Economic Journal C 1
2000 Residential segregation and socioeconomic outcomes: When did ghettos go bad? Economics Letters C 2
1999 Regional Wage Gaps and the Settlement of the Midwest Explorations in Economic History B 1
1999 Analytic Narratives By Robert H. Bates, Avner Grief, Margaret Levi, Jean‐Laurent Rosenthal, and Barry R. Weingast. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998; Pp. x, 249. $50.00 ($19.95, paper). Southern Economic Journal C 1
1998 Wages and Labor Markets before the Civil War. American Economic Review S 1
1998 Review of Lance E. Davis et al., <I>In Pursuit of Leviathan: Technology, Institutions, Productivity, and Profits in American Whaling, 1816-1906</I> Journal of Political Economy S 1
1998 The Origins of Intergenerational Inequality Southern Economic Journal C 1
1998 The Vanishing Irish: Households, Migration, and the Rural Economy in Ireland, 1850‐1914 By Timothy W. Guinnane. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xvii, 335. $49.50. Southern Economic Journal C 1
1997 General and Miscellaneous - The New Economics of Human Behavior. Edited by Mariano Tommasi and Kathryn Ierulli. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Pp. ix, 238. $17.95. Journal of Economic History B 1
1997 Resources, deprivation and poverty : by Brian Nolan and Christopher T. Whelan, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1996, 261 p, [UK pound]35.00 Journal of Development Economics A 1
1997 It Takes a Nation: A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty. By Rebecca M. Blank. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. Pp. xvi, 340. $29.95. Southern Economic Journal C 1
1996 The Rental Price of Housing in New York City, 1830–1860 Journal of Economic History B 1
1996 Compulsory schooling legislation and school attendance in turn-of-the century America: A 'natural experiment' approach Economics Letters C 2
1995 Labor Market Evolution: The Economic History of Market Integration, Wage Flexibility, and the Employment Relation. Edited by George Grantham and Mary MacKinnon. New York: Routledge. Pp. v, 322. $69.95. Journal of Economic History B 1
1994 Work Relief and the Labor Force Participation of Married Women in 1940 Journal of Economic History B 2
1994 Literacy in the United States: Readers and reading since 1880 : by Carl F. Kaestle, Helen Damon-Moore, Lawrence C. Stedman, Katherine Tinsley and William Vance Trollinger, Jr. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1991. pp vii, 338. ISBN 0-300-04946-3. Hardback $35.00 Economics of Education Review B 1
1994 Sources of Metropolitan Growth : Edwin S. Mills and John F. McDonald, eds. (Center for Urban Policy Research, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 1992) pp. ix, 307, $29.95 (cloth). Regional Science and Urban Economics B 1
1993 The Decline in Black Teenage Labor-Force Participation in the South, 1900-1970: The Role of Schooling. American Economic Review S 2
1993 The lever of riches: Technological creativity and economic progress : Joel Mokyr, (Oxford University Press, New York, 1990) pp. i + 349. ISBN 0-19- 506113-6. $24.95. Journal of Development Economics A 1
1993 Inequality, poverty, and history : Jeffrey G. Williamson, (Basil Blackwell, Cambridge, MA, 1991) ISBN 1-55786-118-8, pp. vii, 151. $19.50 Journal of Development Economics A 1
1993 The Labor Force Participation of Older Americans in 1900: Further Results Explorations in Economic History B 1
1992 The Great Compression: The Wage Structure in the United States at Mid-Century Quarterly Journal of Economics S 2
1992 Comments on Hanes, Kantor, and Owen Journal of Economic History B 1
1992 Explaining the postwar suburbanization of population in the United States: The role of income Journal of Urban Economics A 1
1991 The Microeconomics of Depression Unemployment Journal of Economic History B 1
1991 Asia's next giant: South Korea and late industrialization : Alice H. Amsden, (Oxford University Press, New York, 1989) ISBN 0-19-505852-6, $29.95 Journal of Development Economics A 1
1991 City-suburb socioeconomic differences: evidence from the 1940 and 1950 census public use samples Economics Letters C 1
1991 Segregated Schools and the Mobility Hypothesis: A Model of Local Government Discrimination Quarterly Journal of Economics S 1
1990 The incidence and duration of unemployment : Some long-term comparisons Economics Letters C 1
1989 The poor at birth: Birth weights and infant mortality at Philadelphia's almshouse hospital, 1848-1873 Explorations in Economic History B 2
1989 Work and Labor in Early America. Edited by Stephen Innes. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1988. Pp. vii, 297. $29.95, cloth; $9.95, paper. Journal of Economic History B 1
1989 The effect of migration on black incomes : Evidence from the 1940 census Economics Letters C 1
1987 Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America, 1750–1950. By Judith Walzer Leavitt. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. Pp. ix, 284. $21.95. Journal of Economic History B 1
1987 Gunnar Myrdal and Black-White Relations: The Use and Abuse of An American Dilemma, 1944–1969. By David W. Southern. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. Pp. xiii, 341. $35.00. Journal of Economic History B 1
1987 The Growth of Wages in Antebellum America: New Evidence Journal of Economic History B 2
1987 Accounting for Racial Differences in School Attendance in the American South, 1900: The Role of Separate-but-Equal. Review of Economics and Statistics A 1
1986 Educational Achievement in Segregated School Systems: The Effects of "Separate-but-Equal." American Economic Review S 1
1986 Race and Human Capital: Comment. American Economic Review S 1
1986 Race, Educational Attainment, and the 1940 Census Journal of Economic History B 1
1985 Racial Conflict and Economic Development. By W. Arthur Lewis. The W.E.B. Du Bois Lectures. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1985. Pp. 134. $12.50. Journal of Economic History B 1
1984 Accumulation of Property by Southern Blacks before World War I: Comment and Further Evidence. American Economic Review S 1
1984 Teacher salaries in black and white: The south in 1910 Explorations in Economic History B 1
1983 Heights of Native-Born Whites During the Antebellum Period Journal of Economic History B 2
1982 Discussion Journal of Economic History B 1