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Price V. Fishback is affiliated with the University of Arizona in the United States, with a research profile focused primarily on economics and social sciences. Their work extensively covers urban, neighborhood, and segregation studies, housing market and economics, labor movements and unions, financial literacy and retirement analysis, global health care issues, economic theory and institutions, and employment and welfare studies.

Their recent scholarly output includes the following papers:

  • New Evidence on Redlining by Federal Housing Programs in the 1930s (2022), Journal of Urban Economics
  • Local Economic Conditions and Fertility from the Great Depression through the Great Recession (2020), AEA Papers and Proceedings
  • New Evidence on Redlining by Federal Housing Programs in the 1930s (2021), SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Discrimination, Migration, and Economic Outcomes: Evidence from World War I (2022), The Review of Economics and Statistics
  • The HOLC Maps: How Race and Poverty Influenced Real Estate Professionals' Evaluation of Lending Risk in the 1930s (2023), The Journal of Economic History

Frequent coauthors in their research include:

  • Andreas Ferrara
  • Kenneth Snowden
  • Thomas Storrs
  • Andrew Seltzer
  • Sergio Barrera

The scientist's publications appear most frequently in the following venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • The Journal of Economic History
  • Explorations in Economic History
  • Journal of Urban Economics
  • AEA Papers and Proceedings

Their research falls mainly within the fields of economics, econometrics, and finance, as well as social sciences. Subfields addressed in their work consist of economics and econometrics, sociology and political science, general health professions, public administration, and accounting.

The topics that dominate their academic contributions encompass:

  • Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
  • Housing Market and Economics
  • Labor Movements and Unions
  • Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis
  • Global Health Care Issues
  • Economic Theory and Institutions
  • Employment and Welfare Studies

Best Publications

  • The Effect of Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets: American Cities during the Great Depression

    Leah Platt Boustan;Price V. Fishback;Shawn E. Kantor

  • Births, Deaths, and New Deal Relief during the Great Depression

    Price V. Fishback;Michael R. Haines;Shawn Kantor

  • Did New Deal Grant Programs Stimulate Local Economies? A Study of Federal Grants and Retail Sales During the Great Depression

    Price V. Fishback;William C. Horrace;Shawn Kantor

  • Can the New Deal’s three Rs be rehabilitated? A program-by-program, county-by-county analysis

    Price V. Fishback;Shawn Kantor;John Joseph Wallis

  • The Impact of New Deal Expenditures on Mobility During the Great Depression

    Price V. Fishback;William C. Horrace;Shawn Kantor

  • Banking crises and mortality during the Great Depression: evidence from US urban populations, 1929–1937

    David Stuckler;Christopher Meissner;Price V. Fishback;Sanjay Basu

  • Soft Coal, Hard Choices: The Economic Welfare of Bituminous Coal Miners, 1890-1930

    Price Van Meter Fishback

  • Operations of "Unfettered" Labor Markets: Exit and Voice in American Labor Markets at the Turn of the Century

    Price V. Fishback

  • The Adoption of Workers' Compensation in the United States, 1900–1930*

    Price V. Fishback;Shawn Everett Kantor

  • Precautionary saving, insurance, and the origins of workers' compensation

    Shawn Everett Kantor;Price V. Fishback

  • A Prelude to the Welfare State: The Origins of Workers' Compensation

    Price Van Meter Fishback;Shawn Everett Kantor

  • Striking at the Roots of Crime: The Impact of Welfare Spending on Crime during the Great Depression

    Price V. Fishback;Ryan S. Johnson;Shawn Kantor

  • Did Workers Pay for the Passage of Workers' Compensation Laws?

    Price V. Fishback;Shawn Everett Kantor

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

    Carl Kitchens;Price V Fishback

  • Socializing Security: Progressive-Era Economists and the Origins of American Social Policy.

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  • The Influence of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation on Housing Markets During the 1930s

    Price V. Fishback;Alfonso Flores-Lagunes;William C. Horrace;Shawn Kantor

  • In Search of the Multiplier for Federal Spending in the States During the Great Depression

    Price V. Fishback;Valentina Kachanovskaya

  • US monetary and fiscal policy in the 1930s

    Price V. Fishback

  • How Successful Was the New Deal? The Microeconomic Impact of New Deal Spending and Lending Policies in the 1930s

    Price V. Fishback

  • Front matter, A Prelude to the Welfare State. The Origins of Workers' Compensation

    Price Fishback;Shawn Everett Kantor

  • Can the New Deal's Three R's Be Rehabilitated? A Program-by-Program, County-by-County Analysis

    Price Fishback;Shawn Kantor;John Joseph Wallis

  • Did Coal Miners “Owe Their Souls to the Company Store”? Theory and Evidence from the Early 1900s

    Price V. Fishback

Frequent Co-Authors

Eugene N. White
Eugene N. White Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Sanjay Basu
Sanjay Basu Stanford University
David Stuckler
David Stuckler Bocconi University
Gary D. Libecap
Gary D. Libecap University of California, Santa Barbara
Michael McKee
Michael McKee Appalachian State University

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