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Discipline name D-index D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines. Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking
Social Sciences and Humanities D-index 30 Citations 8,183 124 World Ranking 5937 National Ranking 2941

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Awards & Achievements

1999 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

What is she best known for?

The fields of study she is best known for:

  • World War II
  • Law
  • Social science

Demography, Labour economics, Social security, Longevity and Politics are her primary areas of study. Her Demography research focuses on Mortality rate in particular. Her work in the fields of Labour economics, such as Wage, Earnings inequality and Labor relations, overlaps with other areas such as Split labor market theory.

She works mostly in the field of Social security, limiting it down to topics relating to Business history and, in certain cases, Demographic economics. Her Longevity research incorporates themes from Discount points, Income elasticity of demand and Per capita. Her work investigates the relationship between Politics and topics such as Economic growth that intersect with problems in Spanish Civil War, Ethnic group, Punishment and Social mobility.

Her most cited work include:

  • Civic Engagement and Community Heterogeneity: An Economist's Perspective (439 citations)
  • Power Couples: Changes in the Locational Choice of the College Educated, 1940–1990 (363 citations)
  • A theory of technophysio evolution, with some implications for forecasting population, health care costs, and pension costs (345 citations)

What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?

Her main research concerns Demography, Spanish Civil War, Demographic economics, Economic growth and Mortality rate. Dora L. Costa has researched Demography in several fields, including Young adult, Socioeconomic status and Race. Her studies deal with areas such as Public administration, Criminology, Social capital and Human capital as well as Spanish Civil War.

Her work in Demographic economics tackles topics such as Social security which are related to areas like Pension, Business history, Government and Politics. The various areas that Dora L. Costa examines in her Economic growth study include Sample and Census. Her studies in Mortality rate integrate themes in fields like Oldest old, Gerontology and Cohort.

She most often published in these fields:

  • Demography (41.10%)
  • Spanish Civil War (31.78%)
  • Demographic economics (21.61%)

What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2011-2020)?

  • Spanish Civil War (31.78%)
  • Economic growth (19.07%)
  • Socioeconomic status (16.95%)

In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:

Spanish Civil War, Economic growth, Socioeconomic status, Human capital and Demography are her primary areas of study. In Spanish Civil War, Dora L. Costa works on issues like Discrete choice, which are connected to Interpersonal ties. Her research integrates issues of Sample and Census in her study of Economic growth.

Her Socioeconomic status research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Prisoners of war and Mortality selection. Her studies examine the connections between Human capital and genetics, as well as such issues in Educational attainment, with regards to Demographic economics. Her work deals with themes such as Affect and Longevity, which intersect with Demography.

Between 2011 and 2020, her most popular works were:

  • Energy Conservation "Nudges" and Environmentalist Ideology: Evidence from a Randomized Residential Electricity Field Experiment (332 citations)
  • Understanding the Solar Home price premium: Electricity generation and ''Green'' social status $ (123 citations)
  • Health and the Economy in the United States from 1750 to the Present (48 citations)

In her most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • World War II
  • Law
  • Social science

Her main research concerns Socioeconomic status, Spanish Civil War, Demography, Economic growth and Human capital. Her Socioeconomic status research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Prisoners of war and Imprisonment. The Spanish Civil War study combines topics in areas such as Gerontology and Mortality selection.

Her Demography research includes themes of Affect and Longevity. The study incorporates disciplines such as Public health interventions and Mortality rate in addition to Economic growth. Dora L. Costa has included themes like Developing country, Development economics, Health education and Educational attainment in her Human capital study.

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Best Publications

Civic Engagement and Community Heterogeneity: An Economist's Perspective

Dora L. Costa;Matthew E. Kahn.
Perspectives on Politics (2003)

850 Citations

The Evolution of Retirement

Dora L. Costa.
Research Papers in Economics (1998)

823 Citations

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

Dora L. Costa;Matthew E. Kahn.
Journal of the European Economic Association (2013)

808 Citations

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

Dora L. Costa;Matthew E. Kahn.
Quarterly Journal of Economics (2000)

734 Citations

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

Robert W. Fogel;Dora L. Costa.
Demography (1997)

524 Citations

Understanding the American Decline in Social Capital, 1952–1998

Dora L. Costa;Matthew E. Kahn.
Kyklos (2003)

446 Citations

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

Dora L. Costa;Richard H. Steckel.
NBER Chapters (1997)

432 Citations

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

Dora Costa.
Journal of Economic Perspectives (2000)

371 Citations

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

Samuel R. Dastrup;Joshua Graff Zivin;Dora L. Costa;Matthew E. Kahn.
European Economic Review (2012)

245 Citations

Changes in the Value of Life, 1940-1980

Dora L. Costa;Matthew E. Kahn.
Journal of Risk and Uncertainty (2004)

225 Citations

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