The American Manufacturing Economy in the time of the Great Depression

大萧条时期的美国制造业经济

• 批准号: 9023021
• 负责人: Timothy Bresnahan
• 金额: $ 14.07万
• 依托单位: National Bureau of Economic Research Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-03-15 至 1996-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9023021&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: American; Manufacturing; Economy; time; Great

The purpose of this research is to analyze the economic behavior of the American industrial economy during the period 1929-1935. This period spans the largest decline in demand ever to strike the manufacturing sector of the economy. Understanding the response of the economy to this dramatic decline in demand, both in output markets and the labor markets is of enormous analytic importance and central to understanding the Great Depression. A new data set will be assembled which consists of individual- plant data form the Census of Manufacturing for 1929, 1931, 1933, and 1935. These data are far finer than any extant data set for the period, and establishment-level micro-data such as these will be used to analyze the response of the output and labor markets to the severe down turn in aggregate demand experienced during that period. The project will create establishment panel data sets for a variety of important industries. In addition, the rich information on the Census schedules will link in extra- Censal information about the firms owning the establishments and about the technology employed by the firms. This project is important because it will provide new information and insights about the contraction of the economy during the Great Depression.

本研究的目的是分析1929-1935年期间美国工业经济的经济行为。 这一时期的需求下降幅度最大，对经济中的制造业造成了冲击。 了解经济对产出市场和劳动力市场需求急剧下降的反应具有巨大的分析重要性，对于理解大萧条至关重要。 将汇集一个新的数据集，其中包括来自 1929 年、1931 年、1933 年和 1935 年制造业普查的单个工厂数据。这些数据比该时期任何现有数据集都要精细，并且诸如此类的企业级微观数据将用于分析产出和劳动力市场对该时期经历的总需求严重下滑的反应。 该项目将为各种重要行业创建企业面板数据集。 此外，普查时间表上的丰富信息将链接到有关拥有这些场所的公司以及公司所采用的技术的普查外信息。 该项目很重要，因为它将提供有关大萧条期间经济收缩的新信息和见解。