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 …

the implications of the war costs themselves. Besides the unanticipated length and breadth of the military conflicts … motivations associated with war cost forecasts by comparing them with other types of aggregate forecasts, which are prone to … similar types of errors. The history of war cost forecasts suggests that increasing their frequency and transparency may …

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 …

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 …

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 …

interaction between the scarcity of resources and the incentives for war in the presence of limited commitment is at the center of … our theory. We show that a key parameter determining the incentives for war is the elasticity of demand. Our first result … identifies a novel externality that can precipitate war: price-taking firms fail to internalize the impact of their extraction on …

shortly after the war seem to have dissipated by 2000. While these are important outcomes to economists, by focusing on them …