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A Patchwork Safety Net: A Survey of Cliometric Studies of Income Maintenance Programs in the United States in the First Half of the Twentieth Century

Fishback, Price Vanmeter; Allen, Samuel; Fox, Jonathan; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

Social welfare programs in the United States are designed to serve as safety nets for people in hard times, in contrast with the universal approach found in many other developed western nations. In a survey of Cliometric studies of social welfare programs in the U.S., we examine the variation in...

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Striking at the Roots of Crime: The Impact of Social Welfare Spending on Crime During the Great Depression

Kantor, Shawn; Fishback, Price Vanmeter; Johnson, Ryan S. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2007

The Great Depression of the 1930s led contemporaries to worry that people hit by hard times would turn to crime in their efforts to survive. Franklin Roosevelt argued that the unprecedented and massive expansion in relief efforts "struck at the roots of crime" by providing subsistence income to...

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Do Federal Programs Affect Internal Migration? The Impact of New Deal Expenditures on Mobility During the Great Depression

Fishback, Price Vanmeter; Horrace, William C.; Kantor, Shawn - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001

** Revised version 2005** <p> Using a recently-uncovered data set that describes over 30 federal New Deal spending, loan, and mortgage insurance programs across all U.S. counties from 1933 to 1939, this paper empirically examines the New Deal's impact on inter-county migration from 1930 to 1940. We...</p>

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Welfare Spending and Mortality Rates for the Elderly Before the Social Security Era

Fishback, Price Vanmeter; Stoian, Adrian - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

We analyze the impact of the original means-tested Old Age Assistance (OAA) programs on the health of the elderly prior to the first Social Security pension payments. Before 1935 a number of states had enacted their own OAA laws. After 1935 the federal government began offering matching grants...

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The Impact of New Deal Expenditures on Local Economic Activity: An Examination of Retail Sales, 1929-1939

Fishback, Price Vanmeter; Horrace, William C.; Kantor, Shawn - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001

**Revised version 2005** <p>This paper empirically examines the New Deal's impact on local economic activity, as measured by retail sales, during the 1930s. Using a recently-uncovered data set that describes over 30 federal New Deal spending, loan, and mortgage insurance programs across all U.S....</p>

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Social Welfare Expenditures in the United States and the Nordic Countries: 1900-2003

Fishback, Price Vanmeter - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

The extent of social expenditures in the U.S. and the Nordic Countries is compared in the early 1900s and again in the early 2000s. The common view that America spends much less on social welfare than the Nordic countries does not survive closer inspection when we consider the differences in the...

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Births, Deaths, and New Deal Relief during the Great Depression

Fishback, Price Vanmeter; Haines, Michael Robert; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005

This paper examines the impact of New Deal relief programs on infant mortality, noninfant mortality and general fertility rates in major U.S. cities between 1929 and 1940. We estimate the effects using a variety of specifications and techniques for a panel of 114 cities for which data on relief...

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The Welfare of Children During the Great Depression

Fishback, Price Vanmeter; Haines, Michael Robert; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2002

This paper examines the impact of New Deal relief programs on demographic outcomes in major U.S. cities during the 1930s. A five-equation structural model is estimated that tests the effect of the relief spending on infant mortality, non-infant mortality, and fertility. For 111 cities for which...

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The Child Care Industry: Cost Functions, Efficiency, and Quality

Mocan, Naci H. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1995

. First, there is no difference in average quality of the services produced between nonprofit and for-profit centers. This … indicates that nonprofit status cannot be taken as a signal of higher quality. Second, the hypothesis of relative inefficiency … for workers. There are economies of scale in production. Controlling for the level of quality of services, a 10 percent …

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Empowering Women Through Education: Evidence from Sierra Leone

Mocan, Naci H.; Cannonier, Colin - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

We use data from Sierra Leone where a substantial education program provided increased access to education for primary-school age children but did not benefit children who were older. We exploit the variation in access to the program generated by date of birth and the variation in resources...

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