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J. David Hacker
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., 1999, University of Minnesota
U.S. Demographic and Social History, American Civil War

Office: LT 802

  

Phone: (607) 777-4210

 E-mail: hacker@binghamton.edu

Current Project: The Decline of American Fertility, 1790-2000 (click here for article describing project in Inside BU ) Recent Articles:

  • "Economic, Demographic, and Anthropometric Correlates of First Marriage in the Mid Nineteenth-Century United States," Center for Population Economics Working Paper Series, University of Chicago (2006).
  • "American Indian Mortality in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Impact of Federal Assimilation Policies on a Vulnerable Population," Annales de Demographie Historique, 2 (2005), 17-45.
  • “Rethinking the ‘Early’ Decline of Marital Fertility in the United States,” Demography, 40:4 (November 2003), 605-620.
  • “Public Use Microdata Samples of the 1860 Census of Slave Inhabitants,” with J. Trent Alexander, Sean Condon, and Jason Carl Digman, Historical Methods, 36:1 (Winter 2003), 21-26.
  • “The Human Cost of War: White Population in the United States, 1850-1880,” The Journal of Economic History, 61:2 (June 2001), 486-489.
  • "Child Naming, Religion, and the Decline of Marital Fertility in Nineteenth-Century America," The History of the Family: An International Quarterly, 4:3 (1999), 339-365.
  • "Public Use Microdata Samples of the 1860 and 1870 U.S. Censuses of Population," with Steven Ruggles, Andrea R. Foroughi, Brad D. Jarvis, and Walter L. Sargent, Historical Methods, 32:3 (Summer 1999), 125-133.
  • "Trends and Determinants of Adult Mortality in Early New England: Reconciling Old and New Evidence From the Long Eighteenth Century," Social Science History, 21:4 (Winter 1997), 481-519.
  • "Cultural Demography: New England Deaths and the Puritan Perception of Risk," with Daniel Scott Smith, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 26:3 (Winter 1996), 367-392.
  • "Order Out of Chaos: General Design of the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series," with Steven Ruggles and Matthew Sobek, Historical Methods, 28:1 (Winter 1995), 33-39. Encyclopedia Articles and Book Reviews

Awards and Fellowships:

  • NICHD Career Development Award, "The Decline of Fertility in the United States, 1790-2000," 1 K01-HD052617-01 ($667,237), June 2006-May 2011.
  • Arthur H. Cole Grant-in-Aid Award, "New Life Tables for the Nineteenth-Century United States," Economic History Association, 2006.
  • Dean’s Research Semester Award, Harpur College, Binghamton University, Spring 2003.
  • Research Grant, “Marriage Selection and Marriage Protection: Evidence from a Longitudinal Sample of Union Army Recruits,” Early Indicators Program Project, the Center for Population Economics at the University of Chicago and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NIH P01 AG10102), 2002-03.
  • Principal Investigator (with Russell R. Menard, J. Trent Alexander, and Jason Carl Digman), “Public Use Microdata Samples of the 1850 Slave Population,” National Science Foundation (SES-0214300), 2002-04.
  • Dorothy S. Thomas Award for best paper on the interrelationships among social, economic and demographic variables, Population Association of America, 2001.
  • Finalist, Allan Nevins Prize for best dissertation in U.S. Economic History, Economic History Association, 2000.
  • Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship, University of Minnesota, 1998-99. McMillan Research Travel Grant, 1998.
  • Dissertation Research Grant, Early American History Workshop, Department of History, University of Minnesota, 1997.
  • Alumni Merit Scholarship, Miami University, 1980-84.