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The Dust Bowl, The New Deal, and Long-Run Effects on Health and Education: Vallore Arthi Over the last decade, new directions in economic history have been enabled and invigorated by the increasing availability of digitized historical records containing microeconomic data.[...]economists have employ...

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Published in:The Journal of economic history 2018-06, Vol.78 (2), p.575-610
Main Authors: Cook, Lisa D., Geloso, Vincent, Hernández, Carlos Eduardo, Arthi, Vellore, Diebolt, Claude, Giorcelli, Michela, Jackson, Trevor, Palsson, Craig
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
19th century
20th century
Author productivity
Breweries
Brewing
Capital formation
Dissertations & theses
Diversification
Dust
Economic development
Economic history
Economic integration
Economic models
Economists
Education
Endogenous
GDP
Gross Domestic Product
Health status
Human capital
Infant mortality
Infants
Innovations
Peace
Relocation
Standard of living
Technology adoption
Transport costs
Transportation
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Summary:The Dust Bowl, The New Deal, and Long-Run Effects on Health and Education: Vallore Arthi Over the last decade, new directions in economic history have been enabled and invigorated by the increasing availability of digitized historical records containing microeconomic data.[...]economists have employed these data to systematically evaluate the effects of the New Deal, the largest expansion of federal spending during peace time in U.S. history.1 Vallore Arthi’s dissertation entitled, “Human Capital Formation and the American Dust Bowl,” fits squarely in this new direction in economic history, and she uses these data to examine outcomes related to the Dust Bowl and the New Deal.Price Fishback, Michael Haines, and Shawn Kantor (2007) estimated the short-run effects of Dust Bowl-era income and climate shocks on infant health, mortality, and demographic outcomes.Using the firm-level data from breweries with data on railroad transportation costs from Robert Fogel (1964), Jeremy Atack (2013), and Dave Donaldson and Richard Hornbeck (2016), he provides evidence that the endogenous adoption of bottling augmented the effect of market integration on the relocation of the brewing industry, which primarily occurred through the growth of intra-regional trade in beer within the Midwest.
ISSN:0022-0507
1471-6372
DOI:10.1017/S002205071800030X