The Distribution of Income in the Great Depression: Preliminary State Estimates

The Journal of Economic History

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 1983, Pages 217-230

  Schmitz, Mark ^a   Fishback, Price V ^a  

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EID: 84971957495     PISSN: 00220507     EISSN: 14716372     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S002205070002920X     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. For an overview of state per capita income, see Daniel Creamer and Charles Merwin, “State Distribution of Income Payments, 1929-1946,” Survey of Current Business (July 1942), pp. 18-26
2. Frank Hanna, State Income Differentials, 1919–1954 (Durham, North Carolina, 1959).
3. Simon Kuznets, Shares of Upper Income Groups in Income and Savings (New York, 1954).
4. Horst Mendershausen, Changes in Income Distribution During the Great Depression (New York, 1946), pp. 114–15.
5. A summary of the evidence can be found in Williamson and Lindert, American Inequality: A Macroeconomic History (New York, 1981), pp. 75–80, 315-18.
6. The distribution of income within the top groups is also examined by Rufus Tucker, “The Distribution of Income Among Income Taxpayers in the United States, 1863-1935,” Quarterly Journal of Economics, 52 (Aug. 1938), 547–87.
7. See also, Selma Goldsmith, et al.“Size Distributions of Income Since the Mid-Thirties,” Review of Economics and Statistics, 36 (Feb. 1954), 1–32.
8. For a provocative study using this approach with the Gini coefficient see John Fei, Gustav Ranis, and Shirley Kuo, Growth with Equity: The Taiwan Case (New York, 1979). Chapters 8–12
9. Kuznets, Shares, pp. 63–92.
10. Geoffrey H. Moore, “Secular Changes in the Distribution of Income,” American Economic Review, 42 (May 1952), 524–44.
11. See Simon Kuznets, “Economic Growth and Income Inequality,” American Economic Review, 45 (March 1955), 1-28.
12. Mendershausen, Changes, pp. 73–77, 116.
13. Williamson and Lindert, American Inequality, pp. 285–90.
14. Daniel Creamer, Personal Incomes During Business Cycles (Princeton, 1956), pp. 34–59
15. For examples, see Ahmad Al-Samarrie and H. P. Miller, “State Differentials in Income Concentration,” American Economic Review, 57 (March 1967) 59-72
16. Kuznets, “Quantitative Aspects,” pp. 36–44, 74–79 also examines state distributions estimated by Seymour Goodman for the 1950
17. Creamer and Merwin, “State Income Payments,” pp. 23–26.
18. Mendershausen, Changes, pp. 54–56.
19. See also Creamer, Personal Income, pp. 60–76.