The Marginal Effect of New Deal Relief Work on County-Level Unemployment Statistics

Robert K. Fleck

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Historical Economic and Social Studies Labor market dynamics and wage inequality Unemployment and Economic Growth

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This article uses 1937 and 1940 Census data to estimate the effect that hiring an additional relief worker in a county had on unemployment statistics for that county. The fundamental estimation problem arises because one cannot easily control for economic conditions that influenced both the number of individuals holding relief jobs and the number counted as jobless.

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