| The great compression: The wage structure in the United States at mid-century C Goldin, RA Margo The Quarterly Journal of Economics 107 (1), 1-34, 1992 | 996 | 1992 |
| Race and schooling in the South, 1880-1950: An economic history RA Margo University of Chicago Press, 1990 | 857 | 1990 |
| Did railroads induce or follow economic growth?: Urbanization and population growth in the American Midwest, 1850–1860 J Atack, F Bateman, M Haines, RA Margo Social Science History 34 (2), 171-197, 2010 | 506 | 2010 |
| Technical change and the relative demand for skilled labor: The united states in historical perspective LF Katz, RA Margo Human capital in history: The American record, 15-57, 2014 | 360 | 2014 |
| Wages and labor markets in the United States, 1820-1860 RA Margo University of Chicago Press, 2009 | 272 | 2009 |
| Secular changes in American and British stature and nutrition RW Fogel, SL Engerman, R Floud, G Friedman, RA Margo, K Sokoloff, ... The Journal of interdisciplinary history 14 (2), 445-481, 1983 | 269 | 1983 |
| The heights of American slaves: New evidence on slave nutrition and health RA Margo, RH Steckel Social Science History 6 (4), 516-538, 1982 | 263 | 1982 |
| Employment and Unemployment in the 1930s RA Margo Journal of Economic Perspectives 7 (2), 41-59, 1993 | 248 | 1993 |
| Explaining the postwar suburbanization of population in the United States: The role of income RA Margo Journal of urban economics 31 (3), 301-310, 1992 | 238 | 1992 |
| Heights of native-born whites during the antebellum period RA Margo, RH Steckel The Journal of Economic History 43 (1), 167-174, 1983 | 234 | 1983 |
| The economic aftermath of the 1960s riots in American cities: Evidence from property values WJ Collins, RA Margo The Journal of Economic History 67 (4), 849-883, 2007 | 229 | 2007 |
| Historical perspectives on racial differences in schooling in the United States WJ Collins, RA Margo Handbook of the Economics of Education 1, 107-154, 2006 | 178 | 2006 |
| Residential segregation and socioeconomic outcomes: When did ghettos go bad? WJ Collins, RA Margo Economics Letters 69 (2), 239-243, 2000 | 178 | 2000 |
| Women's work?: American schoolteachers, 1650-1920 J Perlmann, RA Margo University of Chicago Press, 2001 | 176 | 2001 |
| Historical perspectives on US economic geography S Kim, RA Margo Handbook of regional and urban economics 4, 2981-3019, 2004 | 156 | 2004 |
| Railroads and the Rise of the Factory: Evidence for the United States, 1850-1870 J Atack, MR Haines, RA Margo National Bureau of Economic Research, 2008 | 150 | 2008 |
| “Location, location, location!” The price gradient for vacant urban land: New York, 1835 to 1900 J Atack, RA Margo The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics 16 (2), 151-172, 1998 | 148 | 1998 |
| Explaining black-white wage convergence, 1940–1950 RA Margo ILR Review 48 (3), 470-481, 1995 | 132 | 1995 |
| Compulsory schooling legislation and school attendance in turn-of-the century America: A ‘natural experiment’approach RA Margo, TA Finegan Economics Letters 53 (1), 103-110, 1996 | 130 | 1996 |
| Race and Home Ownership from the End of the Civil War to the Present WJ Collins, RA Margo American Economic Review 101 (3), 355-359, 2011 | 128 | 2011 |
Leah BoustanProfessor of Economics, Princeton UniversityVerified email at princeton.edu
