Robert A. Margo

Latest Institution: Boston University

All Institutions: National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Pennsylvania; Boston University; NA; University of Michigan; Vanderbilt University; Colgate University; Brookings Institution; Harvard University; University of Georgia


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Based on the Following Papers:

Changes in American and British Stature Since the Mideighteenth Century: A Preliminary Report on the Usefulness of Data on Height for the Analysis of Secular Trends in Nutrition, Labor Productivity and Labor Welfare

Year: 1982
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Robert W. Fogel; Stanley L. Engerman; Roderick Floud; Richard H. Steckel; T. James Trussell; Kenneth W. Wachter; Kenneth Sokoloff; Georgia Villaflor; Robert A. Margo; Gerald Friedman

Accumulation of Property by Southern Blacks Before World War I: Comment and Further Evidence

Year: 1983
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Robert A. Margo

Educational Achievement in Segregated School Systems: The Effects of Separate But Equal

Year: 1985
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Robert A. Margo

The Antebellum Surge in Skill Differentials One More Time: New Evidence

Year: 1985
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Robert A. Margo; Georgia C. Villaflor

Accounting for Racial Differences in School Attendance in the American South, 1900: The Role of Separate-but-Equal

Year: 1987
Journal: Review of Economics and Statistics
Authors: Robert A. Margo

The Poor at Birth: Infant Auxology and Mortality at Philadelphia's Almshouse Hospital, 1848-1873

Year: 1988
Journal: Explorations in Economic History
Authors: Claudia D. Goldin; Robert A. Margo

Schooling and the Great Migration

Year: 1988
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Robert A. Margo

Wages, Prices, and Labor Markets Before the Civil War

Year: 1989
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Claudia Goldin; Robert A. Margo

Race and Home Ownership, 1900 to 1990

Year: 1999
Journal: Explorations in Economic History
Authors: William J. Collins; Robert A. Margo

The North-South Wage Gap Before and After the Civil War

Year: 2002
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Robert A. Margo

Historical Perspectives on U.S. Economic Geography

Year: 2003
Journal: Economic Geography
Authors: Sukkoo Kim; Robert A. Margo

Historical Perspectives on Racial Differences in Schooling in the United States

Year: 2003
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: William J. Collins; Robert A. Margo

Capital Deepening in American Manufacturing, 1850-1880

Year: 2003
Journal: Economic History Review
Authors: Jeremy Atack; Fred Bateman; Robert A. Margo

The Impact of the Civil War on Capital Intensity and Labor Productivity in Southern Manufacturing

Year: 2004
Journal: Explorations in Economic History
Authors: William Hutchinson; Robert A. Margo

The Economic Aftermath of the 1960s Riots: Evidence from Property Values

Year: 2004
Journal: Journal of Economic History
Authors: William J. Collins; Robert A. Margo

The Labor Market Effects of the 1960s Riots

Year: 2004
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: William J. Collins; Robert A. Margo

Railroads and Local Economic Development: The United States in the 1850s

Year: 2006
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Michael R. Haines; Robert A. Margo

Race Segregation and Postal Employment: New Evidence on Spatial Mismatch

Year: 2007
Journal: Journal of Urban Economics
Authors: Leah Platt Boustan; Robert A. Margo

Railroads and the Rise of the Factory: Evidence for the United States, 1850-70

Year: 2008
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Jeremy Atack; Michael R. Haines; Robert A. Margo

Agricultural Improvements and Access to Rail Transportation: The American Midwest as a Test Case, 1850-1860

Year: 2009
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Jeremy Atack; Robert A. Margo

Did Railroads Induce or Follow Economic Growth, Urbanization, and Population Growth in the American Midwest, 1850-60?

Year: 2009
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Jeremy Atack; Fred Bateman; Michael Haines; Robert A. Margo

The Economic History of the American Economic Review: A Century's Explosion of Economics Research

Year: 2010
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: Robert A. Margo

Race and Home Ownership from the Civil War to the Present

Year: 2011
Journal: American Economic Review
Authors: William J. Collins; Robert A. Margo

White Suburbanization and African American Home Ownership, 1940-1980

Year: 2011
Journal: Journal of Urban Economics
Authors: Leah Platt Boustan; Robert A. Margo

Economies of Scale in Nineteenth Century American Manufacturing Revisited: A Resolution of the Entrepreneurial Labor Input Problem

Year: 2013
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Robert A. Margo

Technical Change and the Relative Demand for Skilled Labor: The United States in Historical Perspective

Year: 2013
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Lawrence F. Katz; Robert A. Margo

Racial Differences in Health in Longrun Perspective: A Brief Introduction

Year: 2014
Journal: Economics and Human Biology
Authors: Leah Boustan; Robert A. Margo

Obama, Katrina, and the Persistence of Racial Inequality

Year: 2016
Journal: Journal of Economic History
Authors: Robert A. Margo

The Integration of Economic History into Economics

Year: 2017
Journal: Cliometrica
Authors: Robert A. Margo

Gallman Revisited: Blacksmithing and American Manufacturing, 1850-1870

Year: 2017
Journal: Cliometrica
Authors: Jeremy Atack; Robert A. Margo

Does Condominium Development Lead to Gentrification?

Year: 2019
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Leah Platt Boustan; Robert A. Margo; Matthew M. Miller; James M. Reeves; Justin P. Steil

Mechanization Takes Command: Inanimate Power and Labor Productivity in Late Nineteenth Century American Manufacturing

Year: 2020
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Jeremy Atack; Robert A. Margo; Paul Rhode

Industrialization and Urbanization in Nineteenth Century America

Year: 2021
Journal: Regional Science and Urban Economics
Authors: Jeremy Atack; Robert A. Margo; Paul Rhode

Deskilling: Evidence from Late Nineteenth Century American Manufacturing

Year: 2023
Journal: Explorations in Economic History
Authors: Jeremy Atack; Robert A. Margo; Paul Rhode

Wage Inequality in American Manufacturing, 1820-1940: New Evidence

Year: 2023
Journal: No Journal Matched
Authors: Jeremy Atack; Robert A. Margo; Paul Rhode


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