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

This paper attempts to provide a more complete reckoning of the costs of the Iraq War, using standard economic and … underestimate the War's true costs. We estimate a range of present and future costs, by including expenditures not in the $500bn CBO … the war on the overall performance of the economy. Even taking a conservative approach and assuming all US troops return …

for World War II in colonial India influenced its subsequent development. From 1939 to 1945, the British colonial … government purchased massive amounts of war materiel within India. We study long-run impacts on structural transformation … takes a shift-share approach, exploiting variation across industries in war-related government orders, and variation across …

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 …

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

belligerents: Britain, France, Italy, Germany, and Austria-Hungary. At the outbreak of the war, these nations suspended … convertibility of their currencies into gold with the promise that after the war each would restore convertibility at the old par …. However, once convertibility was suspended, the value of each currency depended on the outcome of the war. I decompose …

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 …