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  • 1999 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Dora L. Costa is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences and medicine, with a focus on demographic trends, health, and intergenerational studies.

Recent publications by Costa include the following:

  • Overweight grandsons and grandfathers' starvation exposure, 2023, Journal of Health Economics
  • Grandchildren's Longevity and Their Grandfathers' POW Trauma in the U.S. Civil War, 2024, Demography
  • Nutri score e Descodificador de Rótulos da DGS: uma análise comparativa do perfil nutricional numa amostra de bolachas comercializada em Portugal, 2024, RevSALUS - Revista Científica da Rede Académica das Ciências da Saúde da Lusofonia
  • Children and grandchildren of Union Army veterans: New data collections to study the persistence of longevity and socioeconomic status across generations, 2023, Historical Methods A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History
  • Equality Before the Law in U.S. Civil War Courts-Martial, 2025, SSRN Electronic Journal

Their frequent co-authors include:

  • Maria Júlia Onofre
  • Ana Gonçalves
  • Érica Cardoso
  • Joana Edra
  • Carla Regina Ferreira Freire Guimarães

Costa publishes regularly in venues such as:

  • Journal of Health Economics
  • Demography
  • RevSALUS - Revista Científica da Rede Académica das Ciências da Saúde da Lusofonia
  • Historical Methods A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Their main fields of study include social sciences and medicine. Subfields researched cover gender studies, pediatrics, perinatology, child health, public health, environmental and occupational health, sociology and political science, and organizational behavior and human resource management.

Main topics addressed in their work encompass:

  • Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences
  • Birth, Development, and Health
  • Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Nutritional Studies and Diet
  • Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
  • Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies

In 1999, Costa was recognized as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

Best Publications

  • The evolution of retirement

    Dora L. Costa

  • Energy Conservation "Nudges" and Environmentalist Ideology: Evidence from a Randomized Residential Electricity Field Experiment

    Dora L. Costa;Matthew E. Kahn

  • Civic Engagement and Community Heterogeneity: An Economist's Perspective

    Dora L. Costa;Matthew E. Kahn

  • Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States

    Dora L. Costa;Richard H. Steckel

  • Power Couples: Changes in the Locational Choice of the College Educated, 1940–1990

    Dora L. Costa;Matthew E. Kahn

  • A theory of technophysio evolution, with some implications for forecasting population, health care costs, and pension costs

    Robert W. Fogel;Dora L. Costa

  • Understanding the American Decline in Social Capital, 1952–1998

    Dora L. Costa;Matthew E. Kahn

  • From Mill Town to Board Room: The Rise of Women's Paid Labor

    Dora Costa

  • The Evolution of Retirement: An American Economic History, 1880-1990

    Dora L Costa

  • Understanding the Solar Home price premium: Electricity generation and ''Green'' social status $

    Samuel R. Dastrup;Joshua Graff Zivin;Dora L. Costa;Matthew E. Kahn

  • Changes in the Value of Life, 1940-1980

    Dora L. Costa;Matthew E. Kahn

  • The Wage and the Length of the Work Day: From the 1890s to 1991

    Dora L. Costa

  • Understanding the twentieth-century decline in chronic conditions among older men.

    Dora L. Costa

  • Cowards and Heroes: Group Loyalty in the American Civil War

    Dora L. Costa;Matthew E. Kahn

  • Estimating Real Income in the United States from 1888 to 1994: Correcting CPI Bias Using Engel Curves

    Dora L. Costa

  • The cost of diabetes.

    K. Gerard;C. Donaldson;A. K. Maynard

  • Health and the Economy in the United States from 1750 to the Present

    Dora L. Costa

  • Height, Weight, Wartime Stress, and Older Age Mortality: Evidence from the Union Army Records

    Dora L. Costa

  • Changing chronic disease rates and long-term declines in functional limitation among older men.

    Dora L. Costa

  • A House of Her Own: Old Age Assistance and the Living Arrangements of Older Nonmarried Women

    Dora Costa

  • Civic Engagement and Community Heterogeneity: An Economist's Perspective

    Matthew E. Kahn;Matthew E. Kahn;Dora L. Costa;Dora L. Costa

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