Turning Citizens into Investors: Promoting Savings with Liberty Bonds During World War I

Eric Hilt; Wendy M. Rahn

doi:10.7758/RSF.2016.2.6.05

Article Information

vol. 2 no. 6 86-108

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2016.2.6.05

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online October 1, 2016.

Copyright © 2016 by Russell Sage Foundation. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Reproduction by the United States Government in whole or in part is permitted for any purpose. We would like to thank Price Fishback and Paul Rhode for sharing their data on early taxpayers, and Richard Sutch and two anonymous referees for helpful comments. Christina Ferlauto, Polina Soshnin, Ryan Halen, and Lauren Carr provided research assistance. Direct correspondence to: Eric Hilt at ehilt@wellesley.edu, Department of Economics, Wellesley College, Wellesley MA 02481; and Wendy M. Rahn at rahnx003@umn.edu, University of Minnesota, 1414 Social Sciences Building, 267 19th Ave S., Minneapolis MN 55455. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

Eric Hilt^a and
Wendy M. Rahn^b

^aAssociate professor of economics at Wellesley College and research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research
^bProfessor of political science at the University of Minnesota