New Deal, New Patriots: How 1930s Government Spending Boosted Patriotism During World War II
研究发现1933年后受益于新政社会支出的美国人在二战期间表现出更强的爱国主义行为，如购买战争债券、志愿服务和获得勋章，通过匹配服役记录与1940年人口普查数据及工具变量法支持因果推断。
Abstract We demonstrate an important complementarity between patriotism and public-good provision. After 1933, the New Deal led to an unprecedented expansion of the U.S. federal government’s role. Those who benefited from social spending were markedly more patriotic during World War II: they bought more war bonds, volunteered more, and, as soldiers, won more medals. This pattern was new—World War I volunteering did not show the same geography of patriotism. We match military service records with the 1940 census to show that this pattern holds at the individual level. Using geographical variation, we exploit two instruments to suggest that the effect is causal: droughts and congressional committee representation predict more New Deal agricultural support, as well as bond buying, volunteering, and medals.