2026 Robert A. Margo: Economics and Finance Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Economics and Finance	52	1257	1117	760	658	268	11874

Overview

Robert A. Margo is affiliated with Boston University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with a total of 13 publications in this area. Subfields of focus include Economics and Econometrics, Marketing, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Museology, and History and Philosophy of Science.

The main topics of Robert A. Margo's work encompass Historical Economic and Social Studies, Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis, American History and Culture, American Environmental and Regional History, Fashion and Cultural Textiles, Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis, and Transport and Economic Policies.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Robert A. Margo include:

Jeremy Atack
Paul W. Rhode
Michael R. Haines
Leah Platt Boustan
Matthew M. Miller

Publications by Robert A. Margo have appeared in the following venues:

SSRN Electronic Journal
Regional Science and Urban Economics
The Journal of Economic History
Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook
Journal of Urban Economics

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Robert A. Margo include:

Industrialization and Urbanization in Nineteenth Century America, 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal
Industrialization and urbanization in nineteenth century America, 2021, Regional Science and Urban Economics
"Mechanization Takes Command?": Powered Machinery and Production Times in Late Nineteenth-Century American Manufacturing, 2022, The Journal of Economic History
Digitizing Carroll D. Wright's "Hand and Machine Labor" Study, 2023, Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook
JUE Insight: Condominium development does not lead to gentrification, 2022, Journal of Urban Economics

Best Publications

The Great Compression: The Wage Structure in the United States at Mid-Century

Claudia Goldin;Robert A. Margo

1001
Citations
DID RAILROADS INDUCE OR FOLLOW ECONOMIC GROWTH? URBANIZATION AND POPULATION GROWTH IN THE AMERICAN MIDWEST, 1850-60

Jeremy Atack;Fred Bateman;Michael Haines;Robert A. Margo

808
Citations
Race and Schooling in the South, 1880-1950

Robert A. Margo

774
Citations
Race and Schooling in the South, 1880-1950: An Economic History

Robert Margo

754
Citations
Race and Schooling in the South, 1880-1950: An Economic History

Robert A. Margo

751
Citations
It Takes a Nation: A New Agenda for Fighting Poverty

Rebecca M. Blank

462
Citations
Technical Change and the Relative Demand for Skilled Labor: The United States in Historical Perspective

Lawrence Katz;Robert Margo

411
Citations
Women's Work?

Joel Perlmann;Robert Margo

381
Citations
DID RAILROADS INDUCE OR FOLLOW ECONOMIC GROWTH? URBANIZATION AND POPULATION GROWTH IN THE AMERICAN MIDWEST, 1850-60

Jeremy Atack;Fred Bateman;Michael Haines;Robert A. Margo

376
Citations
Wages and Labor Markets in the United States, 1820-1860

Robert A Margo

276
Citations
Explaining the postwar suburbanization of population in the United States: the role of income.

Robert A. Margo;Robert A. Margo

248
Citations
The heights of American slaves: new evidence on slave nutrition and health.

Robert A. Margo;Richard H. Steckel

245
Citations
The Economic Aftermath of the 1960s Riots in American Cities: Evidence from Property Values

William J. Collins;Robert A. Margo

243
Citations
Employment and Unemployment in the 1930s

Robert A. Margo

235
Citations
Heights of native-born whites during the antebellum period.

Robert A. Margo;Richard H. Steckel

223
Citations
Historical Perspectives on Racial Differences in Schooling in the United States

William J. Collins;Robert A. Margo

208
Citations
Compulsory Schooling Legislation and School Attendance in Turn-of-the-Century America: A "Natural Experiment" Approach

Robert A. Margo;T. Aldrich Finegan

195
Citations
RESIDENTIAL SEGREGATION AND SOCIOECONOMIC OUTCOMES: WHEN DID GHETTOS GO BAD?

William J Collins;Robert A Margo

171
Citations
Women's Work?: American Schoolteachers, 1650-1920

Joel Perlmann;Robert A. Margo

156
Citations
The Growth of Wages in Antebellum America: New Evidence

Robert A. Margo;Georgia C. Villaflor

153
Citations
Technical Change and the Relative Demand for Skilled Labor: The United States in Historical Perspective

Lawrence F Katz;Lawrence F Katz;Robert A Margo;Robert A Margo

152
Citations
Did Railroads Induce or Follow Economic Growth

Jeremy Atack;Fred Bateman;Michael Haines;Robert A. Margo

96
Citations
Resources, deprivation and poverty

Robert A. Margo

2
Citations
Understanding the Process of Economic Change

Robert A. Margo

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Claudia Goldin Harvard University

Lawrence F. Katz Harvard University

John J. Siegfried Vanderbilt University

Dora L. Costa University of California, Los Angeles

Richard H. Steckel The Ohio State University

Stanley L. Engerman University of Rochester

Gary Solon University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Jennifer F. Reinganum Vanderbilt University

Randall P. Ellis Boston University

Theodore J. Joyce Baruch College

External Links

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