| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w24158 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 24158 |
| The Arsenal of Democracy: Production and Politics During WWII | |
| Paul W. Rhode; James M. Snyder, Jr.; Koleman Strumpf | |
| 发表日期 | 2018 |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | We study the geographic distribution of military supply contracts during World War II. This is a unique case, since over $3 trillion current day dollars was spent, and there were concerns that the country's future hinged on the war outcome. We find robust evidence consistent with the hypothesis that economic factors dominated the allocation of supply contracts, and that political factors---or at least winning the 1944 presidential election---were at best of secondary importance. General industrial capacity in 1939, as well as specialized industrial capacity for aircraft production, are strong predictors of contract spending across states. On the other hand, electoral college pivot probabilities are at best weak predictors of contract spending, and under the most plausible assumptions they are essentially unrelated to spending. This is true not only for total contract spending over the entire period 1940-1944, but also for shorter periods leading up to the election in November 1944, as well as for new facilities spending. That is, we find no evidence of an electoral cycle in the distribution of funds. |
| 主题 | Microeconomics ; Welfare and Collective Choice ; Public Economics ; Public Goods ; National Fiscal Issues ; History ; Other History |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w24158 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/581832 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Paul W. Rhode,James M. Snyder, Jr.,Koleman Strumpf. The Arsenal of Democracy: Production and Politics During WWII. 2018. |
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