| The evolution of retirement DL Costa The Evolution of Retirement: An American Economic History, 1880-1990, 6-31, 1998 | 878 | 1998 |
| Civic engagement and community heterogeneity: An economist's perspective DL Costa, ME Kahn Perspectives on politics 1 (1), 103-111, 2003 | 870 | 2003 |
| Energy conservation “nudges” and environmentalist ideology: Evidence from a randomized residential electricity field experiment DL Costa, ME Kahn Journal of the European Economic Association 11 (3), 680-702, 2013 | 858 | 2013 |
| Power couples: changes in the locational choice of the college educated, 1940–1990 DL Costa, ME Kahn The Quarterly Journal of Economics 115 (4), 1287-1315, 2000 | 752 | 2000 |
| A theory of technophysio evolution, with some implications for forecasting population, health care costs, and pension costs RW Fogel, DL Costa Demography 34 (1), 49-66, 1997 | 549 | 1997 |
| A theory of technophysio evolution, with some implications for forecasting population, health care costs, and pension costs RW Fogel, DL Costa Demography 34 (1), 49-66, 1997 | 544 | 1997 |
| Understanding the American decline in social capital, 1952–1998 DL Costa, ME Kahn Kyklos 56 (1), 17-46, 2003 | 451 | 2003 |
| Long-term trends in health, welfare, and economic growth in the United States D Costa, RH Steckel Health and welfare during industrialization, 47-90, 1997 | 436 | 1997 |
| From mill town to board room: The rise of women's paid labor DL Costa Journal of Economic Perspectives 14 (4), 101-122, 2000 | 417 | 2000 |
| Stature, living standards, and economic development: Essays in anthropometric history J Komlos University of Chicago Press, 1994 | 379 | 1994 |
| Understanding the Solar Home price premium: Electricity generation and “Green” social status SR Dastrup, JG Zivin, DL Costa, ME Kahn European Economic Review 56 (5), 961-973, 2012 | 276 | 2012 |
| The Wage and the Length of the Work Day: From the 1890s to 1991 DL Costa Journal of Labor Economics 18 (1), 156-181, 2000 | 241 | 2000 |
| Changes in the Value of Life, 1940–1980 DL Costa, ME Kahn Journal of risk and Uncertainty 29, 159-180, 2004 | 240 | 2004 |
| Understanding the twentieth-century decline in chronic conditions among older men DL Costa Demography 37 (1), 53-72, 2000 | 227 | 2000 |
| Cowards and heroes: Group loyalty in the American Civil War DL Costa, ME Kahn The Quarterly Journal of Economics 118 (2), 519-548, 2003 | 218 | 2003 |
| Cowards and heroes: Group loyalty in the American Civil War DL Costa, ME Kahn The Quarterly Journal of Economics 118 (2), 519-548, 2003 | 218 | 2003 |
| Estimating real income in the United States from 1888 to 1994: Correcting CPI bias using Engel curves DL Costa Journal of political economy 109 (6), 1288-1310, 2001 | 212 | 2001 |
| A house of her own: old age assistance and the living arrangements of older nonmarried women DL Costa Journal of Public Economics 72 (1), 39-59, 1999 | 197 | 1999 |
| Height, weight, wartime stress, and older age mortality: evidence from the Union Army records DL Costa Explorations in economic history 30 (4), 424-449, 1993 | 180 | 1993 |
| Heroes and cowards: The social face of war DL Costa, ME Kahn Princeton University Press, 2009 | 166 | 2009 |
