Doctoral Dissertation Research in Economics: Investigating the Impact of the Civilian Conservation Corps Program on Health and Human Capital

经济学博士论文研究：调查民间保护团计划对健康和人力资本的影响

• 批准号: 1629321
• 负责人: Price Fishback
• 金额: $ 1.58万
• 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: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-07-01 至 2018-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1629321&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Economics; Investigating

This project aims at investigating the impacts of one of the New Deal employment programs during the Great Depression, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), which employed young adults from impoverished families as conservation workers in national and state parks. Due to the remote location of the CCC jobs, participants had to move away from their homes in cities and into camps run by military officers. Narrative evidence suggests that living in these camps led to long-run health and career changes for participants. Though a large literature in labor economics has examined various work programs and subsequent impacts on employment, few studies have examined a program that was implemented on such a large scale. This research is the first to analyze long-run impacts of a large-scale unemployment relief program. This project will provide greater insight into the impact of work training programs and mobility during the Great Depression. Moreover, the project will inform policies regarding national work programs, particularly for periods of economic downturns.The investigator will examine the effect of CCC participation on human capital attainment, migration, and health by analyzing a novel dataset. This dataset will be composed of personnel records from the Civilian Conservation Corps and individual records from both the 1930 and 1940 US censuses. The 20% sample of the 1930 census will provide a control group to provide counterfactual outcomes for CCC enrollees. Both CCC enrollees and this control group from 1930 will be matched to the 1940 census so that post-CCC outcomes can be observed. Using this dataset, the investigator will estimate treatment effects of CCC participation to examine the following questions: Did the CCC influence migration across the country? Did participation in the CCC improve participant's subsequent careers? Were participants able to achieve more than they would have without the CCC?

该项目旨在调查大萧条期间的一项新交易就业计划的影响，即平民保护团（CCC），该计划雇用了来自贫困家庭的年轻人作为国家和州公园的保护工作者。由于CCC工作的偏僻地点，参与者不得不离开城市的家中，进入由军官经营的营地。 叙事证据表明，在这些营地中生活导致参与者的长期健康和职业变化。尽管劳动经济学的大量文献研究了各种工作计划，并随后对就业产生了影响，但很少有研究检查了一项大规模实施的计划。这项研究是第一个分析大规模失业计划的长期影响的一项。该项目将对大萧条期间的工作培训计划和流动性的影响提供更深入的了解。此外，该项目将为有关国家工作计划的政策提供信息，尤其是在经济低迷时期。该数据集将由平民保护团的人员记录和1930年和1940年美国人口普查的个人记录组成。 1930年人口普查的20％样本将提供一个对照组，为CCC参与者提供反事实。 从1930年开始的CCC参与者和该对照组都将与1940年的人口普查相匹配，以便可以观察到后CCC的结果。使用此数据集，研究人员将估计CCC参与的治疗效果来检查以下问题：CCC是否影响了全国范围内的迁移？参与CCC是否改善了参与者后来的职业？没有CCC，参与者能够取得比他们更能取得的成就吗？