Carolyn Moehling

Associate Professor and  Director of Undergraduate Studies

Economic History and Labor Economics

New Jersey Hall 209B

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Carolyn M. Moehling is an associate professor of Economics at Rutgers and a faculty research fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research.  Her research focuses on the interactions between households, markets and governments in the past.  Her current research projects include studies of the fertility of the Irish both at home and after immigration to the United States, the connections between immigration and crime in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the evolution and impact of Progressive Era social programs on American families.  Professor Moehling currently serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Economic History and Explorations in Economic History.

Selected Publications

• "Immigration, Crime, and Incarceration in Early 20th Century  America," with Anne Morrison Piehl.  Demography (forthcoming).

• "The American Welfare System and Family Structure: An Historical  Perspective," Journal of Human Resources, (Winter 2007).

• "The Fertility of the Irish in the United States in 1910," with  Timothy Guinnane and Cormac Ó Gráda,   Explorations in Economic History, 43 (July 2006).

• " 'She has suddenly become powerful': Youth Employment and  Household Decision-Making in the Early Twentieth Century," Journal  of Economic History, 65 (June 2005).