The Political Economy of New Deal Spending Revisited, Again: With and without Nevada

Wallis, John

doi:10.1006/exeh.1998.0695

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“…10 Previous research has considered a number of other measures of congressional influence. Our results are robust to including other measures of congressional influence, such as those used by Wallis (1998) and Anderson and Tollison (1991). However, most other measures are weak in the first stage, or are significant and correctly signed but driven by very little variation.…”

Section: Instrumental Variables Strategymentioning

confidence: 51%

Faith-Based Charity and Crowd Out during the Great Depression

Gruber¹,

Hungerman²

2005

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Interest in religious organizations as providers of social services has increased dramatically in recent years. Churches in the U.S. were a crucial provider of social services through the early part of the twentieth century, but their role shrank dramatically with the expansion in government spending under the New Deal. In this paper, we investigate the extent to which the New Deal crowded-out church charitable spending in the 1930s. We do so using a new nationwide data set of charitable spending for six large Christian denominations, matched to data on local New Deal spending. We instrument for New Deal spending using measures of the political strength of a state's congressional delegation, and confirm our findings using a different instrument based on institutional constraints on state relief spending. With both instruments we find that higher government spending leads to lower church charitable activity. Crowd-out was small as a share of total New Deal spending (3%), but large as a share of church spending: our estimates suggest that benevolent church spending fell by 30% in response to the New Deal, and that

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confidence: 51%

Faith-Based Charity and Crowd Out during the Great Depression

Gruber¹,

Hungerman²

2005

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“…The above set of variables is substantially larger than that used in earlier studies of the federal-to-state allocation of New Deal money; see Arrington (1969), Wright (1974), Anderson and Tollison (1991), and Wallis (1984Wallis ( , 1991Wallis ( , and 1998. Still, two potentially important variables are not included because county-level data has not been found: the share of federal land in the state, and the fall in income 1929-1933 (Reading, 1973).…”

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Radio's Impact on Public Spending

Strömberg

2004

The Quarterly Journal of Economics

616

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If informed voters receive favorable policies, then the invention of a new mass medium may affect government policies since it affects who is informed and who is not. These ideas are developed in a voting model. The model forms the basis for an empirical investigation of a major New Deal relief program implemented in the middle of the expansion period of the radio. The main empirical finding is that US counties with many radio listeners received more relief funds. More funds were allocated to poor counties with high unemployment, but controlling for these and other variables, the effects of the radio are large and highly significant. If other government funds were distributed in a similar fashion, then the introduction of the radio led to a major shift in government policies.

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“…Therefore, we developed three variables describing each county's access to ''major'' rivers because the size of dredging and port projects was likely to increase as the rivers increase in size. Our first definition of a major river is one that passes through 50 or 15 For discussions of the determinants of New Deal spending, see Reading (1973), Wright (1974), Wallis (1987Wallis ( , 1998Wallis ( , 2001), Anderson and Tollison (1991), Couch and Shughart (1998), , Fleck (1999aFleck ( ,b, 2001a, Couch and Williams (1999), and Fishback et al (2003b). The last paper summarizes the results of all of the studies and provides new estimates.…”

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The impact of New Deal expenditures on mobility during the Great Depression

Fishback

Horrace

Kantor

2006

Explorations in Economic History

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Using county-level data on federal New Deal expenditures on public works and relief and Agricultural Adjustment Administration payments to farmers, this paper empirically examines the New Deals impact on inter-county migration from 1930 to 1940. We construct a net-migration measure for each county as the difference between the Censuss reported population change from 1930 to 1940 and the natural increase in population (births minus infant deaths minus non-infant deaths) over the same period. Our empirical approach accounts for both the simultaneity between New Deal allocations and migration and the geographic spillovers that likely resulted when economic activity in one county may have affected the migration decisions of people in neighboring counties. We find that greater spending on relief and public works was associated with significant migration into counties where such money was allocated. The introduction of our modern farm programs under the aegis of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration appears to have contributed to a net out-migration that sped the transition of people out of farming.

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The Political Economy of New Deal Spending Revisited, Again: With and without Nevada

Cited by 103 publications

References 9 publications

Faith-Based Charity and Crowd Out during the Great Depression

Faith-Based Charity and Crowd Out during the Great Depression

Radio's Impact on Public Spending

The impact of New Deal expenditures on mobility during the Great Depression

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