Social Insurance and Public Assistance in the Twentieth-Century United States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5753358 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Price Fishback (National Bureau of Economic Research, corresponding author), Price V Fishback |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 80 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 311-350 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Economic History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-0507 • E-ISSN: 1471-6372 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0022050720000200 |
| OpenAlex | W3015236591 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 23 |
The growth of American governments in the twentieth century included large increases in funds for social insurance and public assistance. Social insurance has increased far more than public assistance, so "rise in the social insurance state" is a far better description of the century than "rise in the welfare state." The United States has increased total spending in these areas as much or more as have European countries, but the U.S. spending has relied less heavily on government programs. In the U.S. states largely determine the benefits for many of the public assistance and social insurance programs, leading to large variation in the benefits across the country. I develop estimates of these benefits across time and place and compare them to the poverty line, manufacturing earnings and benefits, state per capita incomes in the US, as well as GDP per capita in countries throughout the world
Business · Development economics · Earnings · Economic growth · Economics · Government (linguistics) · Per capita · Political science · Politics · Poverty · Public assistance · Social insurance · Social security · Social Welfare · State (computer science) · Welfare · Welfare state · Finance · Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Income, Poverty, and Inequality
From poor law to welfare state
The undeserving poor
In the shadow of the poorhouse
The Deserving Poor, the Family, and the U.S. Welfare System
Growing public – social spending and economic growth since the eighteenth century
Protecting Soldiers and Mothers
Distributional National Accounts
Top Incomes in the Long Run of History
Welfare spending and mortality rates for the elderly before the Social Security era
The Rise of Social Spending, 1880-1930
From Sickness to Health
Entitlements
The Evolution of the Institution of Mothers' Pensions in the United States
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| Citations per year | 0,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |