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Essays on Income Inequality and Health During the Great Depression

The Great Recession has brought income inequality to the forefront of the American psyche. Parallels have been made between the Great Depression and the Great Recession, and as such, economic history can act as a powerful analytical tool in directing policy. The first essay in Income Inequality during the Great Depression is a qualitative analysis of income transitions from 1929 to 1933 using 33 representative cities as surveyed by the Civil Works Administration. The second essay investigates the welfare effects of income inequality on infant mortality during the Depression. And the third essay on noninfant mortality gives context to the analysis of infant mortality and stillbirths.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:arizona.edu/oai:arizona.openrepository.com:10150/242473
Date January 2012
CreatorsGrayson, Keoka Yonette
ContributorsFishback, Price, Oaxaca, Ronald, Stegeman, Mark, Fishback, Price
PublisherThe University of Arizona.
Source SetsUniversity of Arizona
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typetext, Electronic Dissertation
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