"During the New Deal the Roosevelt Administration dramatically expanded relief spending to combat extraordinarily high rates of unemployment. We examine the dynamic relationships between relief spending and local private labor markets using a new panel data set of monthly relief, private...

Introduction -- The underpinnings, precursors, and development of the NIRA -- The NIRA code negotiation process -- The president's reemployment agreement of August 1933 -- Codes of fair competition: industrial planning and collusion under the NIRA -- The NIRA compliance mechanism in theory and...

Most of the literature on the evaluation of training programs focuses on the effect of participation on a particular outcome (e.g. earnings). The treatment is generally represented by a binary variable equal to one if participation in the program occurs, and equal to zero if no participation...