The New Deal and the Diffusion of Tractors in the 1930s

摘要: Price Fishback University of Arizona and NBER Shawn Kantor California Merced Todd Sorensen For Presentation at the NBER-DAE Summer Institute in Cambridge, MA, July 11, 2005. June 30, 2005 Please Do Not Quote Without Authors’ Permission. is Frank Clara Kramer Professor, Department Economics, Arizona, Tucson, 85721, phone 520-621-4421, fax 520-621-8450, email pfishback@eller.arizona.edu. a PhD candidate with same address fax. His sorensen@email.arizona.edu. School Social Sciences California-Merced, P.O. Box 2039, Merced, CA 95344, 209-724-2956, 209-724-4356, skantor@ucmerced.edu. We would like to thank Lee Alston, Zeynep Hansen, Gary Libecap, Paul Rhode, Nancy Virts for helpful suggestions provision data. Work on this paper has been funded by National Science Foundation Grant SES 0214483. The NSF bears no responsibility opinions expressed paper.