Flip the Switch: The Impact of the Rural Electrification Administration 1935-1940

Journal of Economic History

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1161-1195

  Kitchens, Carl ^a   Fishback, Price ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC HISTORY; PRODUCTIVITY; RURAL ECONOMY; RURAL ELECTRIFICATION; RURAL HISTORY;

EID: 84950325609     PISSN: 00220507     EISSN: 14716372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022050715001540     Document Type: Review

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