Search openICPSR


Find and share social, behavioral, and health sciences research data.

  • Search terms can be anywhere in the study: title, description, variables, etc.
  • Because our holdings are large, we recommend using at least two query terms:
    rural economy
    home ownership
    higher education
    ghana adolescents
  • Keywords help delimit the breadth of results. Therefore, use as many as required to achieve your desired results:
    elementary education federal funding
  • Our search will find studies with derivative expressions of your query terms: A search for "nation" will find results containing "national"
  • Use quotes to search for an exact expression:
    "social mobility"
  • You can combine exact expressions with loose terms:
    "united states" inmates
  • Exclude results by using a MINUS sign:
    elections -sweden -germany
    elections -sweden -germany
  • On the results page, you will be able to sort and filter to further refine results.
  • Please note that your search queries only openICPSR data holdings.
CLOSE

New Deal Studies

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Price Fishback, University of Arizona; Shawn Kantor, Florida State University; William Horrace, Syracuse University

Version:  View help for Version V1

Name File Type Size Last Modified
1st.readme.first.New.Deal.Retail-Sales-Overview.doc application/msword 23 KB 11/17/2018 12:06:PM
Retail-Sales-final-working-paper.doc application/msword 792.5 KB 11/29/2017 10:06:AM
Retail-Sales-sources.doc application/msword 104 KB 11/20/2008 07:39:AM
retailsales_data.xls application/vnd.ms-excel 4.1 MB 06/05/2007 08:43:AM
retailsales_variablenames.xls application/vnd.ms-excel 41 KB 11/14/2017 09:00:AM

Project Citation: 

Fishback, Price, and Kantor, Shawn\. New Deal Studies. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2018-11-18. https://doi.org/10.3886/E101199V1

Folder Description

Summary:  View help for Summary These are county level data used in a study of the impact of New Deal spending on retail sales activity.

Price Fishback, William C. 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 (March 2005):  36-71
Funding Sources:  View help for Funding Sources National Science Foundation. Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (Grants SBR-9708098, SES-0080324, and SES-0214395,); Earhart Foundation; University of Arizona

Scope of Folder

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms New Deal; Great Depression; Economic Activity
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage United States
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 1929 – 1940


Related Publications

Download this folder

Published Versions

V1 [2018-11-18]

Export Metadata

Dublin Core

DDI 2.5

Report a Problem

Found a serious problem with the data, such as disclosure risk or copyrighted content? Let us know.

This material is distributed exactly as it arrived from the data depositor. ICPSR has not checked or processed this material. Users should consult the investigator(s) if further information is desired.