Doctoral Dissertation Research in Economics: The Warring Forties: New Evidence on the Economic Consequences of World War II

经济学博士论文研究：战时四十年代：二战经济后果的新证据

• 批准号: 1155957
• 负责人: Price Fishback
• 金额: $ 0.99万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-05-01 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1155957&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Economics; Warring

World War II was a significant event for the US economy, particularly for postwar economic and social policy. The war years saw dramatic changes in the economy; some fueled by previous trends and others a creation of the war years. Following World War II, leading economics and law journals took up the question of whether the glut of resources left over from the war years would be an obstacle to recovery and growth. More recently, Field (2011) has suggested revisions that place the 1920s and 30s ahead of World War II in terms of technological progress and total factor productivity growth. This research project addresses hitherto unanswered questions about the war years and subsequent allocation (or misallocation) of resources that resulted from mobilization.The first part of the project considers the war's effect on the educational attainment of the school age cohort in the early 1940s and their subsequent labor market outcomes. Earlier research highlighted the GI Bill's positive effect on the educational attainment of veterans, while mobilization's effect on the school age cohort was potentially negative. The second part focuses on the connection between wartime labor market institutions, the surge in postwar internal migration, and the Great Compression. The final part studies the causes of postwar productivity growth in industries that were, in different ways, caught up in the mobilization effort. By studying some of the inputs into the process of economic change and growth, each chapter pushes us toward a better understanding of a bigger question: How did mobilization for World War II affect postwar economic growth?

第二次世界大战是美国经济的重要事件，特别是战后经济和社会政策。战争时代发生了巨大的经济变化。一些人以先前的趋势和其他趋势促进了战争年代的创造。第二次世界大战之后，领先的经济学和法律期刊提出了一个问题，即战争年代剩下的资源是否会成为恢复和成长的障碍。最近，Field（2011）提出了在技术进步和全因素生产率增长方面，将1920年代和30年代的修订置于第二次世界大战之前。该研究项目涉及迄今未解决有关战争年份的问题，以及随后由动员产生的资源分配（或分配）。该项目的第一部分考虑了战争对1940年代初期学院时代的教育程度的影响，及其随后的劳动劳动劳动力市场的成果。较早的研究强调了GI法案对退伍军人的教育成就的积极影响，而动员对学院时代队列的影响可能是负面的。第二部分侧重于战时劳动力市场机构，战后内部移民的激增和巨大的压缩之间的联系。最后一部分研究了战后生产率增长的原因，这些行业以不同的方式陷入了动员工作。通过研究一些投入到经济变化和增长过程中，每一章都促使我们更好地理解一个更大的问题：第二次世界大战的动员如何影响战后的经济增长？