Fishback, Price V.; Haines, Michael R.; Kantor, Shawn - 2021
-infant mortality, and fertility. For 111 cities for which data on relief spending during the 1930s were available, we collected annual …s. A five-equation structural model is estimated that tests the effect of the relief spending on infant mortality, non … sales, which serve as a proxy for the level of economic activity. Relief spending directly lowered infant mortality rates to …