We demonstrate an important complementarity between patriotism and public-good
provision. After 1933, the New Deal led to an unprecedented expansion of the US federal …

This paper investigates the empirical relationship between inclusion and state capacity, as
theorized by Besley and Persson (2009). We examine the impact of racial discrimination on …

The study participants were co-research partners and engaged in a Project Based Learning
six-week summer project in an urban northeastern metropolis community-based non-profit …

Most aspects of the New Deal directly hurt members of numerous vulnerable populations,
including American Indians, immigrants, minors, people of color, and women. James …

FDR's New Deal not only failed to make America socialist or even collectivist, it failed on its
own terms. The US economy not only failed to return to anything close to full employment …

We demonstrate an important complementarity between patriotism and public good
provision. After 1933, the New Deal led to an unprecedented expansion of the US federal …

This paper studies the unemployment rate racial divergence that started after 1930. We
show that labor force participation can be used as a proxy to circumvent data constraints and …

This paper investigates the effect of discrimination on volunteer military enlistment rates,
which we interpret as a component of state capacity. We use weekly enlistment data to …