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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

Why Did Productivity Fall So Much during the Great Depression?

  • Lee E. Ohanian
American Economic Review
vol. 91, no. 2, May 2001
(pp. 34–38)
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Citation

Ohanian, Lee, E. 2001. "Why Did Productivity Fall So Much during the Great Depression?" American Economic Review, 91 (2): 34–38. DOI: 10.1257/aer.91.2.34

JEL Classification

  • O47 Measurement of Economic Growth; Aggregate Productivity; Cross-Country Output Convergence
  • N12 Economic History: Macroeconomics; Growth and Fluctuations: U.S.; Canada: 1913-
  • E32 Business Fluctuations; Cycles