Research

Data 

Working Papers

1.  J. David Hacker, Jonas Helgertz, Richard H. Steckel, and Nicolas L. Ziebarth. 2024. “Explaining Racial Differences in Childhood Mortality in the Rural South After Emancipation.” Draft coming soon!

2. J. David Hacker, Jonas Helgertz, Richard H. Steckel, and Nicolas L. Ziebarth. 2024. “Life Tables for the Black Population of the United States, 1850-1940.” Draft coming soon!

3. Nicolas L. Ziebarth. 2022. "The Distribution of Establishment-Level Productivity in Manufacturing During the Great Depression." New draft coming soon!

   • This supersedes the paper "Misallocation and Productivity During the Great Depression."

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4. Erik Loualiche, Chris Vickers, and Nicolas L. Ziebarth. 2024. "Firm Networks in the Great Depression."

5. Chris Vickers and Nicolas L. Ziebarth. 2024. "The Effects of the National War Labor Board on Labor Income Inequality." 

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Refereed  Articles and Chapters

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1.  Price Fishback, Chris Vickers, and Nicolas L. Ziebarth. 2023. "Labor Market Effects of Workweek Restrictions: Evidence from the Great Depression." American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, forthcoming.

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2. Felipe Benguria, Chris Vickers, and Nicolas L. Ziebarth. 2020. "Labor Earnings Inequality in Manufacturing during the Great Depression." Journal of Economic History 80:531-563.  

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3. Sarada, Michael J. Andrews, and Nicolas L. Ziebarth. 2019. "Changes  in the Demographics  of American  Inventors, 1870-1940." Explorations in Economic History 74:101275. 

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4. Alexandre Poirier and Nicolas L. Ziebarth. 2019. "Estimation of Models with Multiple-Valued Explanatory Variables." Journal of Economics and Business Statistics 37:586-597.  

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5. Chris Vickers and Nicolas L. Ziebarth. 2019. "The Census of Manufactures: An Overview." Handbook of Cliometrics, Vol. 2, Claude Diebolt and Michael J. Haupert, Eds. 

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6. Martin Gervais and Nicolas L. Ziebarth. 2019.  "Life After Debt: Post-Graduation Consequences of Federal Student Loans." Economic Inquiry 57:1342-1366.

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7. Emek Basker, Chris Vickers, and Nicolas L. Ziebarth. 2018. "Competition, Productivity, and the Survival of Grocery Stores in the Great Depression." International Journal of Industrial Organization 59:282-315 . 

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8.  Mary Eschelbach Hansen and Nicolas L. Ziebarth. 2017.  "Credit Relationships and Business Bankruptcy during the Great Depression." American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 9:228-255. 

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9. Matthias Kehrig and Nicolas L. Ziebarth. 2017. "The Effects of the Real Oil Price on Regional Wage Dispersion." American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics  9:115-148.  

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10. Gabriel Mathy and Nicolas L. Ziebarth. 2017. "Does Political Uncertainty Matter? The Case of Louisiana under Huey Long." Journal of Economic History 77:90-127. 

11.  Chris Vickers and Nicolas L. Ziebarth. 2016. "Economic Development and the Demographics of Criminals in Victorian England." Journal of Law and Economics, 59:191-223.

12. Richard Steckel and Nicolas L. Ziebarth. 2016. "Selectivity and Measured Catch-Up Growth of American Slaves."  Journal of Economic History 76:109-138.

13. Joel Mokyr, Chris Vickers, and Nicolas L. Ziebarth. 2015. "The History of Technological Anxiety and the Future of Economic Growth: Is This Time Different?,"  Journal of Economic Perspectives 29:31-50. 

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14. Peter Scott and Nicolas L. Ziebarth. 2015. "The Determinants of Plant Survival in the U.S. Radio Equipment Industry during the Great Depression," Journal of Economic History 75:1097-1127.

15. Nicolas L. Ziebarth. 2015. "The Great Depression through the Eyes of the Census of Manufactures," Historical Methods 48:185-194. 

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16. Paul L.E. Grieco and Nicolas L. Ziebarth. 2015. "Unigeniture in an Uncertain World," Cliometrica 9:36-66.

17. Chris Vickers and Nicolas L. Ziebarth. 2014. "Did the NRA Facilitate Collusion? Evidence from the Macaroni Industry," Journal of Economic History 74: 831-862.

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18. Mark Chicu and Nicolas L. Ziebarth. 2013. "Multi-Market Contact and Competition: Evidence from the Cement Industry during the Depression," International Journal of Industrial Organization 31:603-611.

19. Mark Chicu, Chris Vickers, and Nicolas L. Ziebarth. 2013. "Cementing the Case for Collusion under the NRA," Explorations in Economic History 50:487-507. 

20. Richard Steckel and Nicolas L. Ziebarth. 2013. "A Troublesome Statistic: Traders and the Westward Movement of Slaves," Journal of Economic History 73:792-809.

21. Nicolas L. Ziebarth. 2013. "Identifying the Effects of Bank Failures from a Natural Experiment in Mississippi during the Great Depression," American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics  5:81-101.

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22. Nicolas L. Ziebarth. 2013. "Are China and India Backward? Evidence from the 19th Century U.S. Census of Manufactures," Review of Economic Dynamics 16:86-99.

Resting Papers

1. "The Radio and Bank Distress in the Great Depression."

2. "Welfare Effects of Gas Price Fluctuations" with Matthias Kehrig and Florian Kuhn. 

3. "Women's Bargaining Power and the Pill" with Duha Altindag.

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Other Writing

1. Nicolas L. Ziebarth. 2023. ``Review of The Journey of Humanity: The Origins of Wealth and Inequality by Oded Galor. (Dutton, 2022)." EH.net

2. Nicolas L. Ziebarth. 2023. ``Review of Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the 20th Century by J. Bradford DeLong (Basic Books, 2022)." Journal of Economic History 83:642-644.

3. Nicolas L. Ziebarth. 2023. ``Review of Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson (PublicAffairs, 2023)." Business Economics 58:187-189. 

4. Nicolas L. Ziebarth. 2022. “Review of Gold, the Real Bills Doctrine and the Fed: Sources of Monetary Disorder, 1922-1938 by Thomas M. Humphrey and Richard H. Timberlake. (Cato Institute, 2019).” EH.net.

5. Nicolas L. Ziebarth. 2019. "Review of Deconstructing the Monolith: The Microeconomics of the National Industrial Recovery Act by Jason E. Taylor (University of Chicago Press, 2019).” Journal of Economic History 79:1195-1196.

6. Chris Vickers and Nicolas L. Ziebarth. 2018. "Lessons for Today from Past Periods of Rapid Technological Change."  UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs Working Paper #158. 

7. Emek Basker, Chris Vickers, and Nicolas L. Ziebarth. 2018. “A Picture of the Retail Grocery Industry During the Great Depression.” LSE Business Review.

8. Joel Mokyr, Chris Vickers, and Nicolas L. Ziebarth. 2016. “The History of Technological Anxiety and the Future of Economic Growth: Is This Time Different?” LSE Business Review.

9. Nicolas L. Ziebarth. 2014. "Review of Taylor Jaworski's The Warring Forties." Dissertation Reviews.

10. Nicolas L. Ziebarth. 2013. "Dissertation Summary of 'Essays on the Great Depression from a Micro-Perspective'." Journal of Economic History 73:556-559.

Refereed Articles in Ecology

1. Anthony R. Ives, Paul Glaum, Nicolas L. Ziebarth and Dave A. Andow. 2011. "The Evolution of Resistance to Two-toxin Pyramid Transgenic Crops." Ecological Applications 21:503-515.

2. Anthony R. Ives, Karen C. Abbott, and Nicolas L. Ziebarth. 2010. "Analysis of Ecological Time Series with ARMA(p, q) Models." Ecology 91:858-871.

3. Nicolas L. Ziebarth, Karen C. Abbott, and Anthony R. Ives. 2010. "Weak Population Regulation in Ecological Time Series." Ecology Letters 13:21-31.

4. Nicolas Lehmann-Ziebarth and Anthony R. Ives. 2006. "The Structure and Stability of Model Ecosystems Assembled in a Variable Environment." Oikos 114:451-464.

5. Nicolas Lehmann-Ziebarth, Paul Heideman, Rebecca A. Shapiro, Sonia L. Stoddart, Chien Ching Lilian Hsiao, Gordon R. Stephenson, Paul A. Milewski, and Anthony R. Ives. 2005. "The Evolution of Periodicity in Periodical Cicadas." Ecology 86:3200-3211.