Fishback Price V.; Taylor, Jaworski - In: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History … 55 (2014) 2, pp. 16-16
The view that the US economy and living standards benefited from mobilization for World War II is commonplace. The main source of evidence is aggregate comparisons of standard macroeconomic variables over the Great Depression and war years. In this paper, we use newly collected data on infant...