Robert W. Fogel, who won the Nobel prize for economics in 1993, died Tuesday. Mr. Fogel, an economic historian and demographic scholar, was the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of American Institutions at the University of Chicago Booth School of Businessand director of the school’s Center for Population Economics.

Mr. Fogel, who taught until recently despite declining health, spent part of his career at the University of Rochester and moved to the University of Chicago in the late 1960s.