Jeff Biddle

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• Workers' compensation (especially in Michigan), and issues related to workplace risks and injuries generally
• Financial behavior of religious congregations
• History of economic thought

• Making Consumers Comfortable: The Early Decades of Commercial Air Conditioning in the US. Journal of Economic History 71, no. 4 (Dec. 2011), pp. 1078-1094.

• The Introduction of the Cobb-Douglas Regression, Journal of Economic Perspectives 26, no. 2 (Spring 2012), pp. 223-36

• Claiming Behavior in Workers' Compensation, Journal of Risk and Insurance, vol. 70, December 2003 (paper coauthored with Karen Roberts).

• Statistical Economics, 1900-1950, History of Political Economy, December 1999.

• Beauty and the Labor Market. American Economic Review, December 1994. (paper coauthored with Dan Hamermesh).

• The Introduction of Human Capital Theory into Education Policy

• Theory and Measurement: Emergence, Consolidation, and Erosion of a Consensus

• Statistical Inference in Economics, 1920-1965: Changes in Meaning and Practice

• The Cobb-Douglas Regression and the Measurement of Economic Growth and its Causes

• The Introduction of the Cobb-Douglas Regression and its Adoption by Agricultural Economists