Lee A. Craig

Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor of Economics

Ph.D., Indiana University, 1989

Graduate Faculty

Office Location: 4160 Nelson (Economics Wing)
Telephone Number: 919.513.2870
Fax Number: 919.515.5613
Email

Research Specialties

Economic History and Population Studies

Selected Recent Publications

"Mechanical Refrigeration, Seasonality, and the Hog-Corn Cycle in the United States, 1870-1940," with Matthew T. Holt, Explorations in Economic History, Forthcoming.

"Malthus Redux," Journal of Macroeconomics, Forthcoming.

"Nonlinear Dynamics and Structural Change in the U.S. Hog-Corn Cycle: A Time-Varying STAR Approach," with Matthew T. Holt, American Journal of Agricultural Economics 88 (February 2006): 215-233.

"The Effect of Mechanical Refrigeration on Nutrition in the United States," with Barry Goodwin and Thomas Grennes, Social Science History 28 (Summer 2004): 325-336.

A History of Public Sector Pensions, with Robert L. Clark and Jack Wilson, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003).

"The Short and the Dead: Nutrition, Mortality, and the 'Antebellum Puzzle' in the United States," with Michael Haines and Thomas Weiss, Journal of Economic History, 63 (June 2003): 385-416.

"Mechanical Refrigeration and the Integration of Perishable Commodity Markets," with Barry Goodwin and Tom Grennes, Explorations in Economic History, 39 (April 2002): 154-182.

The Growth and Integration of the European Economy, 1500-1910, with Douglas Fisher, (London: Edward Elgar, 2000).

"Transportation Improvements and Land Values in the Antebellum United States: A Hedonic Approach," with Thomas Weiss and Raymond B. Palmquist, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, 16 (March 1998): 173-189.