James J. Feigenbaum

James J. Feigenbaum

Boston University

H-index: 19

North America-United States

About James J. Feigenbaum

James J. Feigenbaum, With an exceptional h-index of 19 and a recent h-index of 18 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Boston University, specializes in the field of Economics, Economic History, Labor Economics, Political Economy.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Organizational and Economic Obstacles to Automation: A Cautionary Tale from AT&T in the Twentieth Century

Answering the Call of Automation: How the Labor Market Adjusted to Mechanizing Telephone Operation

How the other half died: Immigration and mortality in US cities

Racial inequality in the prime of life: infectious disease mortality in US cities, 1906–1933

Examining the Role of Training Data for Supervised Methods of Automated Record Linkage: Lessons for Best Practice in Economic History

“Descended from Immigrants and Revolutionists:” How Family History Shapes Immigration Policymaking

Racial disparities in mortality during the 1918 influenza pandemic in United States cities

Capital Destruction and Economic Growth: The Effects of Sherman's March, 1850-1920

James J. Feigenbaum Information

University

Position

Assistant Professor

Citations(all)

1691

Citations(since 2020)

1447

Cited By

789

hIndex(all)

19

hIndex(since 2020)

18

i10Index(all)

25

i10Index(since 2020)

23

Email

University Profile Page

Boston University

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James J. Feigenbaum Skills & Research Interests

Economics

Economic History

Labor Economics

Political Economy

Top articles of James J. Feigenbaum

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Organizational and Economic Obstacles to Automation: A Cautionary Tale from AT&T in the Twentieth Century

Management Science

James Feigenbaum

Daniel P Gross

2024/2/27

Answering the Call of Automation: How the Labor Market Adjusted to Mechanizing Telephone Operation

James Feigenbaum

Daniel P Gross

2020/11/9

How the other half died: Immigration and mortality in US cities

Review of Economic Studies

Philipp Ager

James J Feigenbaum

Casper W Hansen

Hui Ren Tan

2024/1

Racial inequality in the prime of life: infectious disease mortality in US cities, 1906–1933

Social Science History

Aja Antoine-Jones

James J Feigenbaum

Lauren Hoehn-Velasco

Christopher Muller

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field

2023/8

Examining the Role of Training Data for Supervised Methods of Automated Record Linkage: Lessons for Best Practice in Economic History

Available at SSRN 4669534

James Feigenbaum

Jonas Helgertz

Joseph Price

2023/11

“Descended from Immigrants and Revolutionists:” How Family History Shapes Immigration Policymaking

How Family History Shapes Immigration Policymaking (March 23, 2022). HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-028

James Feigenbaum

Maxwell Palmer

Benjamin Schneer

2022/3

Racial disparities in mortality during the 1918 influenza pandemic in United States cities

Demography

Martin Eiermann

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field

James J Feigenbaum

Jonas Helgertz

Elaine Hernandez

...

2022/10/1

Capital Destruction and Economic Growth: The Effects of Sherman's March, 1850-1920

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

James Feigenbaum

James Lee

Filippo Mezzanotti

2022/10/1

Health in Historical Political Economy

James J Feigenbaum

2022/8/18

1918 every year: racial inequality in infectious mortality, 1906–1942

AEA Papers and Proceedings

James J Feigenbaum

Lauren Hoehn-Velasco

Christopher Muller

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field

2022/5/1

Why does education increase voting? Evidence from Boston’s charter schools

Sarah Cohodes

James J Feigenbaum

2021/9/27

Automated linking of historical data

Journal of Economic Literature

Ran Abramitzky

Leah Boustan

Katherine Eriksson

James Feigenbaum

Santiago Pérez

2021/9/1

After the burning: The economic effects of the 1921 tulsa race massacre

Alex Albright

Jeremy A Cook

James J Feigenbaum

Laura Kincaide

Jason Long

...

2021/7/5

Childhood cross-ethnic exposure predicts political behavior seven decades later: Evidence from linked administrative data

Science Advances

Jacob R Brown

Ryan D Enos

James Feigenbaum

Soumyajit Mazumder

2021/6/11

Did the Urban Mortality Penalty Disappear? Revisiting the Early Twentieth Century’s Urban-Rural Mortality Convergence

James Feigenbaum

Lauren Hoehn-Velasco

Elizabeth Wrigley-Field

2020/12

The return to education in the mid-twentieth century: Evidence from twins

The Journal of Economic History

James J Feigenbaum

Hui Ren Tan

2020/12

Inequality and the Safety Net in American Cities throughout the Income Distribution, 1929–1940

Measuring Distribution and Mobility of Income and Wealth

James Feigenbaum

Price Fishback

Keoka Grayson

2020/7/15

Regulating Child Labor: Evidence from the US Progressive Era

James J Feigenbaum

Gianluca Russo

2020/6/15

When Coercive Economies Fail: The Political Economy of the US South After the Boll Weevil

James J Feigenbaum

Soumyajit Mazumder

Cory B Smith

2020/5/18

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Co-Authors

H-index: 41
Nathan Nunn

Nathan Nunn

Harvard University

H-index: 30
Leah Boustan

Leah Boustan

Princeton University

H-index: 26
Andrew B. Hall

Andrew B. Hall

Stanford University

H-index: 23
Ryan Enos

Ryan Enos

Harvard University

H-index: 21
Alexander Hertel-Fernandez

Alexander Hertel-Fernandez

Columbia University in the City of New York

H-index: 20
Katherine Eriksson

Katherine Eriksson

University of California, Davis

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