During World War II Americans were called upon repeatedly to salvage raw materials for the war effort, often during …

fight and endure war, the government elites began to provide public goods, reduced rent extraction and adopted policies to …

defense production played in reducing this gap. Exploiting variation across labor markets in the allocation of war contracts … to private firms, we find that war production contracts resulted in significant increases in the earnings of Black … upgrading and half of the estimated wage gains associated with the war production effort. Additionally, the war production …

a higher fraction of women working not only for the generation directly affected by the war, but also for the next …

The process by which the US economy was mobilized during World War I was the subject of considerable criticism both at … of active US involvement was remarkable. The United States entered the war in 1917 having made only limited preparations … force in the 15 to 44 age bracket. Overall in 1918, one fifth or more of the nation's resources was devoted to the war …

mobilization for World War II to test the big push hypothesis in the context of postwar industrialization in the American South … of wartime investment. Despite a boom in manufacturing activity during the war, the evidence is not consistent with …

locations outside of major urban centers for security reasons during the United States' industrial mobilization for World War II …