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Robert William Fogel (born July 1, 1926) is an American economic
historian and scientist, and winner (with Douglass North) of the
1993 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. He is now the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions and director of the Center for Population Economics ( at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. He is best known as a leading advocate of New economic history or cliometrics—the use of quantitative methods in history.
the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, where he graduated
from the Stuyvesant High School in 1944. He received a PhD from Johns Hopkins University in 1964
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In 1993, Robert Fogel received, jointly with and
Douglass C. North, the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic
Sciences " for having renewed research in economic history by applying economic theory and quantitative methods in order to explain economic and institutional change ".
Douglass C. North
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Fogel has taught at Johns Hopkins (1958–1959), the
University of Rochester (1960–1965 and 1968–1975), the University of
Chicago (1964–1975 and 1981-), the University of Cambridge , where he was visiting Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions in 1975 and Harvard University (1975–1981). Fogel married Enid Cassandra Morgan in 1949 and has two children
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Fogel is currently the director of the Center
for Population Economics at the University of Chicago and
the principal investigator of the National Institutes of Health-funded Early Indicators of Later Work Levels, Disease and Death project, which draws on observations from military pension records of over 35,000 Union Army veterans.