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World war 403 Weltkrieg 402 Kriegswirtschaft 134 War economy 131 Krieg 106 War 103 Geschichte 80 History 78 Economic history 64 Wirtschaftsgeschichte 64 USA 62 United States 60 Deutschland (bis 1945) 54 Germany (until 1945) 54 Consequences of war 47 Kriegsfolgen 47 Großbritannien 42 Welt 41 World 41 United Kingdom 39 World War II 39 Military expenditure 36 Militärausgaben 36 Deutschland 35 Germany 35 Impact assessment 33 Wirkungsanalyse 33 Nachkriegszeit 27 Postwar period 27 Soldaten 27 Soldiers 27 Italien 24 Italy 24 Erster Weltkrieg 23 World War I 23 1914-1918 19 Frankreich 19 France 17 Vereinigte Staaten 16 World War 16
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Graue Literatur 111 Non-commercial literature 111 Working Paper 108 Arbeitspapier 104 Article in journal 71 Aufsatz in Zeitschrift 71 Aufsatz im Buch 41 Book section 41 Aufsatzsammlung 9 Collection of articles of several authors 9 Sammelwerk 9 Konferenzschrift 6 Conference paper 4 Conference proceedings 4 Hochschulschrift 4 Konferenzbeitrag 4 Festschrift 2 Quelle 2 Amtsdruckschrift 1 Article 1 Bibliografie 1 Biografie 1 Biography 1 Fallstudiensammlung 1 Government document 1 Thesis 1
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English 387 French 14 German 9 Undetermined 6 Russian 3 Polish 2 Dutch 1 Spanish 1
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Gross, Daniel P. 18 Sampat, Bhaven N. 14 Harrison, Mark 11 Voth, Hans-Joachim 9 Ferrara, Andreas 8 Gagliarducci, Stefano 8 Sobbrio, Francesco 8 Tabellini, Guido Enrico 8 Fishback, Price 7 Onorato, Massimiliano Gaetano 7 Broadberry, Stephen N. 6 Kolchin, Vladimir 6 Lokshin, Michael 6 Pencavel, John H. 6 Ravallion, Martin 6 Ager, Philipp 5 Becker, Sascha O. 5 Bursztyn, Leonardo 5 Grosjean, Pauline 5 Hilt, Eric 5 Kholodilin, Konstantin 5 López, José A. 5 Mitchener, Kris 5 Russo, Gianluca 5 Acemoglu, Daron 4 Battistin, Erich 4 Carozzi, Felipe 4 De Feo, Giuseppe 4 De Luca, Giacomo 4 Nunziata, Luca 4 Pinchbeck, Edward 4 Repetto, Luca 4 Rockoff, Hugh 4 Blum, Matthias 3 Eder, Christoph 3 Garin, Andrew 3 Gay, Victor 3 Goel, Rajeev K. 3 Golson, Eric 3 Hall, George J. 3
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National Bureau of Economic Research 32 Frankreich / Comité pour l'Histoire Économique et Financière de la France 3 Birmingham Small Arms Co. 2 Princeton University Press 2 Vereinigte Staaten / Chamber of Commerce 2 de Nederlandsche Bank 2 "Economia nazionale" 1 American Council on Public Affairs 1 Böhlau-Verlag 1 Canada / Dept. of Labour 1 Centro Argentino de Estudios Internacionales (CAEI) 1 DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) 1 Der Aufstieg des Südens - Umbruch in der Globalen Machtverteilung? <Veranstaltung> <2015, München> 1 Erich Schmidt Verlag 1 Frankreich / Cour des comptes / Comité d'histoire 1 Frankreich / Ministère de l'économie, de l'industrie et du numérique 1 Frankreich / Ministère des finances et des comptes publics 1 ISW Sozial-Ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung München e.V. 1 Institut de la Gestion Publique et du Développement Economique 1 Institut für Sozial-Ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung 1 Institut za Uporedno Pravo 1 Journées d'études "Les finances, un ministère en guerre, un ministère dans la guerre" <2015, Paris> 1 Juventa Verlag 1 L' industrie française dans la Grande Guerre <Veranstaltung> <2016, Paris> 1 La mobilisation financière pendant la Grande Guerre <Veranstaltung> <2014, Paris> 1 Les banques françaises et la Grande Guerre <Veranstaltung> <2015, Paris> 1 Muzeum Historii Polskiego Ruchu Ludowego <Warschau> 1 Petroleum Industry Research Foundation 1 Russian Information Bureau in U.S., New York 1 Schwabe AG 1 Sōka-Gakkai / Seinenbu 1 United States / Women's Bureau 1 Universität Rostock 1 Vereinte Nationen 1 Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 1
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NBER working paper series 32 The economics of the Great War : a centennial perspective 16 The economics of the Second World War : seventy-five years on 13 Working paper / National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. 13 NBER Working Paper 12 Discussion papers / CEPR 9 Discussion paper series / IZA 6 Discussion paper / Centre for Economic Policy Research 5 Financial markets of neutral countries in World War II 5 Working papers / Centre for Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy 5 CESifo working papers 4 European review of economic history : EREH 4 The economics of World War I 4 East European monographs 3 Histoire économique et financière de la France / Animation de la recherche 3 IZA Discussion Paper 3 Warwick economic research papers 3 A VoxEU.org eBook 2 Anvil books 2 Business history 2 CEB working paper / Université Libre de Bruxelles, Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management, Centre Emile Bernheim 2 CESifo Working Paper 2 CESifo Working Paper Series 2 Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America, Referendum 2 Defence and peace economics 2 Discussion paper 2 Discussion paper series 2 Discussion papers / Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung 2 Discussion papers in economic and social history 2 Economic and social history of the world war / Netherlands series 2 Economic and social history of the world war / Russian series 2 Economica 2 Enterprise & society : the international journal of business history 2 Ethics in the global South 2 European review of economic history 2 Explorations in economic history : EEH 2 Harvard Business School Strategy Unit Working Paper 2 IBF paper series 2 IZA Discussion Papers 2 Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte 2
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American workers' experience with socialism during the World Wars
Pencavel, John H. - 2025
The operation of American labor markets during the two World Wars is described and the well-being of civilian workers during those years is assessed. These were periods when decentralized capitalism was replaced with a system of centralized direction and control that some would call socialism....
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American Workers' Experience with Socialism During the World Wars
Pencavel, John H. - 2025
The operation of American labor markets during the two World Wars is described and the well-being of civilian workers during those years is assessed. These were periods when decentralized capitalism was replaced with a system of centralized direction and control that some would call socialism....
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The long-run impacts of public industrial investment on local development and economic mobility : evidence from World War II
Garin, Andrew; Rothbaum, Jonathan - 2025
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Blockading Britain and Germany during World War 1 : preparations, conduct and consequence of economic warfare
Broadberry, Stephen N.; Vonyó, Tamás - 2025
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H1N1 and WW1 : the Spanish flu and the great war
Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2024
World War 1 exacerbated the cost of the influenza epidemic of 1918-19 in two ways. First, it facilitated the spread the flu virus through the movement of clusters of infected soldiers and sailors. Second, it constrained public health measures that would have reduced mortality (as during the...
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Political trenches: war, partisanship, and polarization
Grosjean, Pauline; Jha, Saumitra; Vlassopoulos, Michael; … - 2024
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The long-run impacts of public industrial investment on local development and economic mobility : evidence from World War II
Garin, Andrew; Rothbaum, Jonathan - 2024
This paper studies the long-run effects of government-led construction of manufacturing plants on the regions where they were built and on individuals from those regions. Specifically, we examine publicly financed plants built in dispersed locations outside of major urban centers for security...
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Scars of War: The Legacy of WW1 Deaths on Civic Capital and Combat Motivation
Carozzi, Felipe; Pinchbeck, Edward; Repetto, Luca - 2023
How does the memory of lives lost in past wars shape communities and the next generation of soldiers? We use newly collected geolocated data on British servicemen to study the legacy of the Great War mortality shock on local communities and the behaviour of soldiers in WW2. We find that...
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Exposure to war and its labor market consequences over the life cycle
Braun, Sebastian; Stuhler, Jan - 2023
With 70 million dead, World War II remains the most devastating conflict in history. Of the survivors, millions were displaced, returned maimed from the battlefield, or spent years in captivity. We examine the impact of such wartime experiences on labor market careers and show that they often...
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Early-Life Income Shocks and Old-Age Mortality : Evidence from World War I Veterans’ Bonus
NoghaniBehambari, Hamid; Fletcher, Jason M. - 2023
In 1936, the US government enacted the later-known Bonus Act, which triggered cash transfers to about 3 million veterans who had served in World War I. This paper studies the long-run benefits of veterans’ bonus receipt on their children’s old-age longevity. We employ data from Social...
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Wars and the labor market outcomes of minorities in the U.S.
Ferrara, Andreas - 2023
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When missions fail : lessons in "high technology" from post-war Britain
Kelsey, Tom - 2023
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Economic warfare : lessons from two world wars
Harrison, Mark - 2023 - First draft: 5 May 2023. This version 8 September 2023.
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All against Hollywood : policies in defence of national cinematography in European countries after World War I
Manetti, Daniela - In: The journal of European economic history 52 (2023) 1, pp. 139-172
During the First World War, the film industry of the major European countries experienced a lasting crisis, which necessitated significant restructuring and prompted appeals for state intervention to counterbalance the invasion of American films. As the extent of this crisis did not affect all...
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Scars of war: the legacy of WW1 deaths on civic capital and combat motivation
Carozzi, Felipe; Pinchbeck, Edward; Repetto, Luca - 2023
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Loose cannons : war veterans and the erosion of democracy in Weimar Germany
Koenig, Christoph - In: The journal of economic history 83 (2023) 1, pp. 167-202
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The last free traders? : interwar trade policy in the Netherlands and Netherlands East Indies
O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj; Zwart, Pim de; Lampe, Markus - 2023
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Scars of war : the legacy of WW1 deaths on civic capital and combat motivation
Carozzi, Felipe; Pinchbeck, Edward; Repetto, Luca - 2023
How does the memory of lives lost in past wars shape communities and the next generation of soldiers? We use newly collected data on geolocated British servicemen to study the legacy of the Great War mortality shock on local communities and the behaviour of soldiers in WW2. We find that...
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The Impact of World War II Army Service on Income and Mobility in the 1960s by Ethnoracial Group
Barrera, Sergio E.; Ferrara, Andreas; Fishback, Price; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025
We analyze the impact of World War II service on income and mobility among male Army and Army Airforce veterans from various racial and ethnic groups, using linked 1940 Census, WWII enlistment, and 1969 administrative tax return data. The dataset includes non-Hispanic White, Black, Hispanic,...
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Vanguard : Black Veterans and Civil Rights after World War I
Ang, Desmond; Chinoy, Sahil - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025
Nearly 400,000 Black men were drafted into the National Army during World War I, where they toiled in segregated units and received little formal training. Leveraging novel variation from the WWI draft lottery and millions of digitized military and NAACP records, we document the pioneering role...
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The impacts of the gender imbalance on the marriage market : evidence from World War II in Japan
Ogasawara, Kota; Igarashi, Erika - In: Labour economics : an international journal 92 (2025), pp. 1-15
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‘Invest!' : Liberty Bonds and Stock Ownership over the Twentieth Century
Brunet, Gillian; Hilt, Eric; Jaremski, Matthew S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025
The Liberty Bond drives of World War I were nation-wide interventions aimed at increasing financial literacy and associating bond ownership with patriotism. Using data from the first year of the Survey of Consumer Finances, 1947, through 1971, we investigate whether exposure to the drives shaped...
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The Therapeutic Consequences of the War : World War II and the 20th-Century Expansion of Biomedicine
Gross, Daniel P.; Sampat, Bhaven N. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025
During World War II, the U.S. Committee on Medical Research (CMR) undertook an integrated, cross-sectoral effort to develop medical science and technology for war, representing the U.S. government's first substantial investment in medical research. Using data on all CMR research contracts, we...
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Did War Mobilization Cause Aggregate and Regional Growth?
Jaworski, Taylor; Yang, Dongkyu - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025
The participation of the United States in World War II led to a substantial mobilization of domestic resources to produce the materiel used on the battlefields of Europe and in the Pacific. We produce new estimates for the impact of war mobilization on long-run economic growth and regional...
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Rethinking waste within business history : a transnational perspective on waste recycling in World War II
Denton, Chad; Weber, Heike - In: Business history 64 (2022) 5, pp. 855-881
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America, Jump-started : World War II R&D and the Takeoff of the U.S. Innovation System
Gross, Daniel P.; Sampat, Bhaven N. - 2022
During World War II, the U.S. government's Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) undertook one of the largest public investments in applied R&D in U.S. history, entering into thousands of contracts with firms and universities to perform research essential to the war effort. Using...
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The Economics of Civilian Victimization : Evidence from World War II Italy
Bertazzini, Mattia; Giorcelli, Michela - 2022
Does variation in soldiers’ accountability explain civilian victimization in armed conflicts? We answerthis question by studying the Italian Campaign inWorldWar II (July 1943 - May 1945). We leverageplausibly exogenous variation in the movement of 32 front lines that negatively shocked the...
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Pecuniary Incentives to Work in the U.S. During World War Ii
Mulligan, Casey B. - 2022
It is argued that changes in workers' budget sets cannot explain the dramatic increases in" civilian work in the U.S. during World War II. Although money wages grew during the period wartime after-tax real wages were lower than either before or after the war. Evidence from the" 1940's also...
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The Second World War, Inequality and the Social Contract in England
Heldring, Leander; Robinson, James Alan; Whitfill, Parker J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
What is the impact of warfare on inequality and the social contract? Using local data on bombing, the evolution of wealth inequality and vote shares for the Labour Party in England around World War II we establish two results. First, on average, we find no impact of bombing on inequality....
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Victims' state : war and welfare in Austria, 1868-1925
Hsia, Ke-Chin - 2022
Government Poverty and Incentive Pensions in the Nineteenth Century -- The Emergence of the War Welfare Field from Peace to War -- A Social Offensive on the Home Front -- The Last-Ditch Effort to Save the Monarchy -- War Victims, a New Power Factor -- A Republic with "the Correct National and...
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Inventing the Endless Frontier : The Effects of the World War Ii Research Effort on Post-War Innovation
Gross, Daniel P.; Sampat, Bhaven N. - 2022
During World War II, the U.S. government launched an unprecedented effort to mobilize science for war: the newly-established Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) entered thousands of R&D contracts with industrial and academic contractors, spending one to two orders of magnitude...
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War, Socialism and the Rise of Fascism : An Empirical Exploration
Acemoglu, Daron; De Feo, Giuseppe; De Luca, Giacomo; … - 2022
The recent ascent of right-wing populist movements in many countries has rekindled interest in understanding the causes of the rise of Fascism in inter-war years. In this paper, we argue that there was a strong link between the surge of support for the Socialist Party after World War I (WWI) and...
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Organizing Crisis Innovation : Lessons from World War Ii
Gross, Daniel P.; Sampat, Bhaven N. - 2022
World War II was one of the most acute emergencies in U.S. history, and the first where mobilizing science and technology was a major part of the government response. The U.S. Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD) led a major research effort to develop technologies and medical...
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War : The World Is in Its Most Military Period since the World War II
Pashov, Radoslav - 2022
The article presents an analysis of the amount of defence and security spending that different regions and countries around the world spend from their gross domestic product with accompanying comments on the reasons for their respective level
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Discrimination, Migration, and Economic Outcomes : Evidence from World War I
Ferrara, Andreas; Fishback, Price - 2022
Are the costs of discrimination mainly borne by the targeted group or by society? This paper examines both individual and aggregate costs of ethnic discrimination. Studying Germans living in the U.S. during World War I, an event that abruptly downgraded their previously high social standing, we...
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More choice for men? : marriage patterns after World War II in Italy
Battistin, Erich; Becker, Sascha O.; Nunziata, Luca - In: Journal of demographic economics : JODE 88 (2022) 3, pp. 447-472
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Income tax progressivity and inflation during the world wars
Torregrosa Hetland, Sara; Sabaté, Oriol - In: European review of economic history : EREH 26 (2022) 3, pp. 311-339
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The Second World War, Inequality and the Social Contract in England
Heldring, Leander; Robinson, James Alan; Whitfill, Parker - 2022
What is the impact of warfare on inequality and the social contract? Using local data on bombing, the evolution of wealth inequality and vote shares for the Labour Party in England around World War II we establish two results. First, on average, we find no impact of bombing on inequality....
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Crisis innovation policy from World War II to COVID-19
Gross, Daniel P.; Sampat, Bhaven N. - In: Entrepreneurship and innovation policy and the economy … 1 (2022), pp. 135-181
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Surviving the deluge : British servicemen in World War I
Bailey, Roy E.; Hatton, Timothy J.; Inwood, Kris E. - 2022
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Elite murder and popular resistance : evidence from post-World War II Poland
Krakowski, Krzysztof; Schaub, Max - 2022
Does repression of opposition elites prevent resistance against foreign-imposed regimes? On the one hand, elimination of elites can undermine the opposition's capacity for antiregime resistance. Yet killing opposition elites deprives the new regime of useful human capital. Co-optation of elites...
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Forced Displacement and Migrants' Location Choices : Evidence from the Japanese-Canadian Experience during World War II
Chan, Jeff - 2022
This paper examines whether a forced displacement of an ethnic group can lead to long-run changes to their spatial distribution and whether this shock can also lead to changes in where new migrants settle. I use the Canadian government's internment of Japanese Canadians during World War II, as...
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Geschichte der Betrieblichen Sozialen Arbeit : Fabrikpflege im Ersten Weltkrieg
Klein, Martin - 2024 - 1. Auflage
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To plan or not to plan? : the debate in Italy from world war I to world war II
Bientinesi, Fabrizio; Martini, Alice - In: Il pensiero economico italiano : rivista semestrale 32 (2024) 2, pp. 15-43
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War Mobilization and Economic Development : World War II and Structural Transformation in India
Parvathaneni, Aneesha; Yang, Dean - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Can temporary wartime mobilization change the long-run development trajectory of an economy? We study how mobilization 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...
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The hidden victims : civilian casualties of the two world wars
Ó Gráda, Cormac - 2024
"The two world wars were undoubtedly two of the most catastrophic events in human history, not just for those who actually fought in them, but for untold millions of civilians. And even though the wars' superlativeness is unquestioned, our understanding of exactly how bad the civilian costs were...
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Did World War II deaths help prevent deaths from COVID-19?
Lokshin, Michael; Ravallion, Martin; Kolchin, Vladimir - In: Eastern European economics : EEE 62 (2024) 2, pp. 109-135
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The Long-Run Impacts of Public Industrial Investment on Local Development and Economic Mobility : Evidence from World War II
Garin, Andrew; Rothbaum, Jonathan L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper studies the long-run effects of government-led construction of manufacturing plants on the regions where they were built and on individuals from those regions. Specifically, we examine publicly financed plants built in dispersed locations outside of major urban centers for security...
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Neighborhood Effects : Evidence from Wartime Destruction in London
Redding, Stephen; Sturm, Daniel - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We use the German bombing of London during the Second World War as an exogenous source of variation to provide evidence on neighborhood effects. We construct a newly-digitized dataset at the level of individual buildings on wartime destruction, property values, and socioeconomic composition in...
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Who Benefited from World War II Service and the GI Bill? New Evidence on Heterogeneous Effects for US Veterans
Collins, William J.; Zimran, Ariell - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We study the impacts of WWII service and access to GI Bill benefits on the educational and labor market outcomes of individuals of various ethnic and racial groups. We address selection into military service directly by linking veterans and nonveterans from 1950's census records to the...
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