TY  - JOUR
AU  - Fishback,Price V.
AU  - Kantor,Shawn
AU  - Wallis,John Joseph
TI  - Can the New Deal's Three R's Be Rehabilitated? A Program-by-Program, County-by-County Analysis
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 8903
PY  - 2002
Y2  - April 2002
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w8903
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w8903.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Price V. Fishback
Department of Economics
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ  85721
Tel: 520/621-4421
Fax: 520/621-8450
E-Mail: pfishback@eller.arizona.edu

Shawn E. Kantor
School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts
University of California, Merced
5200 N. Lake Road
Merced, CA 95343
Tel: 209-228-2956
Fax: 209-228-4007
E-Mail: skantor@ucmerced.edu

John J. Wallis
Department of Economics
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Tel: 301/405-3552
Fax: 301/405-3542
E-Mail: wallis@econ.umd.edu
AB  - We examine the importance of Roosevelt's 'relief, recovery, and reform' motives to the distribution of New Deal funds across over 3,000 U.S. counties, program by program.  The major relief programs most closely followed Roosevelt's three R's.  Other programs were tilted more in favor of areas with higher incomes. For all programs spending for political advantage in upcoming elections was a significant factor.  Roosevelt's successful reelections were based on developing specific programs for a broad range of constituents, delivering on his stated goals, but also spending more at the margin for political purposes.
ER  -