Data and Code for: Loans for the "Little Fellow:" Credit, Crisis, and Recovery in the Great Depression
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Sarah Quincy, Vanderbilt University
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Project Citation:
Quincy, Sarah. Data and Code for: Loans for the “Little Fellow:” Credit, Crisis, and Recovery in the Great Depression. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2024. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-11-07. https://doi.org/10.3886/E199265V1
Project Description
Summary:
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This paper identifies how bank branching benefited local economies during the Great Depression. Using archival data and narrative evidence, I show how Bank of America’s branch network in 1930s California created an internal capital market that diversified away local liquidity shortfalls, allowing the bank to maintain 49 percent higher credit growth from 1929 to 1933 than competing banks. The bank’s presence mitigated cites' property value contractions and strengthened their recovery through 1940. Linked individual data show that the bank’s proximity to workers hastened the transition from agricultural employment to human-capital-intensive sectors in the 1930s, generating structural change and higher wages.
Scope of Project
Subject Terms:
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Great Depression (1929);
credit supply;
branch banking;
structural transformation
JEL Classification:
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E44 Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
G01 Financial Crises
G21 Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
N22 Economic History: Financial Markets and Institutions: U.S.; Canada: 1913-
E44 Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
G01 Financial Crises
G21 Banks; Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
N22 Economic History: Financial Markets and Institutions: U.S.; Canada: 1913-
Geographic Coverage:
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California
Time Period(s):
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1920 – 1940
Universe:
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These data constitute a longitudinal panel on cities, firms, banking offices, and households in California during the 1920s and 1930s.
Data Type(s):
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aggregate data;
census/enumeration data;
geographic information system (GIS) data;
observational data
Methodology
Unit(s) of Observation:
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bank,
city,
establishment
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