Price Fishback
Department of Economics
Email: pfishback@eller.arizona.edu
This webpage contains datasets from papers and projects with which I have been involved. It is currently under construction.
New Deal Data
Data Set for Geographic Distribution of New
Deal Spending by Counties. Price Fishback,
This
is the dataset for the paper “Can the New Deal’s Three R’s Be
Rehabilitated? A
Program-by-Program, County-by-County Analysis,” with Shawn Kantor and John
Wallis. Explorations in Economic
History (October 2003):
278-307. Extra material is
located in National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 8903 of the same
title by the same authors. We have
included a copy of the working paper and information on the variable names and
their sources in the following link New Deal data
description and working paper 8903.
The data for the study are in an excel file at the following link: New Deal Distribution
Paper Data. Direct questions to
Price Fishback at email address pfishback@eller.arizona.edu. Financial
support has been provided by National Science Foundation Grants SBR-9708098,
SES-0080324, and SES-0214395, the Earhart Foundation, the
The New Deal and
Retail Sales:
Working Paper, Data
Set, Variable Definitions, and Source Notes
The
material here is related to the publication Price Fishback, William Horrace,
and Shawn Kantor. "The Impact of New Deal Expenditures on Local
Economic Activity: An Examination of
Retail Sales, 1929-1939." Journal
of Economic History 65(1) (March 2005):36-71. When citing the data sets, please cite the
published paper as well as the material from the website. For example, “the data source was compiled
for (the paper listed above)” and copies of the data set can be obtained at the
following website. ”We include a longer version of the paper in working paper
form that includes more tables, details on data, and robustness tests than
appear in the published version of the paper.
It is in the following WORD File Retail Sales Final Working
Paper. The data set for the
paper is in the excel file Retail
Sales Data Set. Descriptions
of the Variable Names with abbreviated source information is in the excel file Variable
Names and Sources and Details.
More discussion of the sources and references for the sources are
located in the WORD file Retail Sales
Sources.
The New Deal and Net-Migration at the
Working Paper, Data Set,
Variable Definitions, and Source Notes
The
material here is related to the forthcoming paper by Price Fishback, William Horrace, and Shawn
Kantor, "The Impact of New Deal Expenditures on Mobility During the Great
Depression." Explorations in Economic History
(forthcoming). When citing the data
sets, please cite the published paper as well as the material from the
website. For example, “the data source
was compiled for (the paper listed above)” and copies of the data set can be
obtained at the following website. ” We include a longer version of the paper
in working paper form that includes more tables, details on data, and
robustness tests than appear in the published version of the paper. It is in the following WORD File County
Net-Migration Final Working Paper.doc.
The data set for the paper is in the excel file County
Net-Migration Data Set. Descriptions of the Variable Names with
abbreviated source information is in the excel file Net-Migration
Variable Names and Sources and Details.
More discussion of the sources and references for the sources are
located in the WORD file County Net-Migration
Sources.
Data Set for Births,
Deaths, and New Deal Relief During the Great Depression” by Price Fishback,
University of Arizona, Michael Haines, Colgate University, and Shawn Kantor,
University of California, Merced, forthcoming in the Review
of Economics and Statistics.
This is the sample for the paper “Births, Deaths, and New Deal
Relief During the Great Depression” by Price Fishback, Michael Haines, and
Shawn Kantor, forthcoming in the Review of Economics and Statistic. When
citing the data sets, please cite the published paper as well as the material
from the website. Extra material
is located in National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 11246 of the
same title by the same authors. We have included a copy of the
working paper and information on the variable names and their sources in the
following .pdf file: New Deal data description and working paper 11246. The data
for all of the variables used for 1929-1940 are in the excel file “restat.xls” and a dataset with dummies for cities and
year is in “restatdm.xls.” Variable names and descriptions of the
variables and the source are in the excel file “restat.paper.variable.descriptions.xls”. The data used to determine the prior trends
for infant mortality, non-infant death rates, and general fertility rates are
in “ndmt2128.xls”.
The data for all death causes at a lower level of aggregation are in “dtcausal.xls” Financial support has been provided by National
Science Foundation Grants SBR-9708098, SES-0080324, and SES-0214395, the
Earhart Foundation, the University of Arizona Foundation, and the University of
Arizona Office of the Vice President for Research. The findings in the original
article and the working paper should not be seen as representing the views of
any of these funding agencies.
Workers’ Compensation
Project Data
We
are offering public access to data sets collected while working on a study of the
origins of workers’ compensation. The
study has culminated in a volume by Price V. Fishback
and Shawn Everett Kantor: A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of
Workers’ Compensation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. The study received funding from National
Science Foundation Grant No. SBR-9223058, the Earhart Foundation, the
University of Arizona Foundation, and the Spanish Ministry of Education and
Culture. There are several data sets in
excel files.
The
first dataset contains information for 48 states for the period 1900 to 1930 on
workers’ compensation laws, labor markets, the party composition of the state
government, presidential votes, labor laws, manufacturing, mining, and
progressive legislation. The data are
in an EXCEL file ‘wcdata.xls’ with a variable
listing on an EXCEL file ‘wcdata.lst.xls’
and a text document on a WORD file ‘wcsources.doc’.
The
second data set has detailed descriptions of the parameters that determined
workers’ compensation benefits in each state for the families of workplace
accident victims. The data are located
in and EXCEL file ‘wclaws30.xls’. Descriptions of the variables, sources for
the data, an intuitive description of how to calculated expected benefits, and
a SAS program used to calculate expected benefits appear in a WORD file ‘wclaws30.source.doc’.
The
third data set is the data on savings and insurance purchases of over 12,000
households during the period 1917-1919.
This is the basic data for a study we performed on the impact of
workers’ compensation on savings and insurance purchases. The study appeared as “Precautionary Saving,
Insurance, and the Origins of Workers’ Compensation,” Journal of Political
Economy 104 (1996): 419-442 and is
summarized in the book above. The
majority of the data come from the Bureau of Labor Statistics 1917-1919 Cost of
Living Survey, which can be obtained from the Inter-University Consortium for
Political and Social Research as Data Set No. 8299. Claudia Goldin had earlier created
occupational codes for the data. This data
can be matched with data from the Cost of Living Survey collected by Martha
Olney, which is discussed more fully at www.eh.net. We used a subset of the data and added our
own industry codes and information on job risk associated with those industry
codes. This data is included in the
EXCEL file ‘indcod19.xls’. The definitions of the variable names are
found in EXCEL file ‘indlist.xls’. Descriptions of how we matched up the
industry codes and the job risk information can be found in the WORD file ‘INDCOD19.doc’.
The earnings information can then be used to calculate workers’
compensation benefits. We have provided
the SAS code we used to calculate the benefits and run the statistical
analysis, as well as descriptions of the methods for calculating benefits in
the WORD file ‘jpefinal.doc’.
Book Project: Government and the American Economy from
Colonial Times to the Present.
I had to take the book chapters down because the book will
be published by the
|
Number |
Chapter Title |
Author(s) |
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Preface |
Douglass North |
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One |
Introduction |
Price Fishback |
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Two |
Colonial |
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Three |
The Constitution |
Robert McGuire |
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Four |
Property Rights and |
Gary Libecap |
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Five |
Reversing Financial
Reversals: Government and the
Financial System Since 1789 |
Richard Sylla |
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Six |
The National Era |
John Wallis |
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Seven |
The Civil War and
Reconstruction |
Jeffrey Hummel |
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Eight |
Government and the American
Dilemma |
Robert Margo |
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Nine |
The Gilded Age |
Mark Guglielmo and Werner
Troesken |
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Ten |
The Progressive Era |
Price Fishback |
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Eleven |
Government and the
People: Labor, Education and Health |
Sumner LaCroix |
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Twelve |
The Development of the
Federal Bureaucracy |
Gary Libecap |
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Thirteen |
The New Deal |
Price Fishback |
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Fourteen |
The World Wars |
Robert Higgs |
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Fifteen |
The Growth of |
Randal Rucker and E.C.
Pasour |
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Sixteen |
Shaping Welfare Policy: the
Role of the South |
Lee Alston and Joseph
Ferrie |
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Seventeen |
The Post-War Era |
Price Fishback |
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Appendix One |
Data Appendix |
John Wallis and Price
Fishback |
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Appendix Two |
Document Appendix |
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