Comprising establishment-level data from the U.S. Census of Manufactures, used to study how multi-plant firms allocated resources in response to local economic shocks during the Great Depression. It was authored by Nicolas Ziebarth and last updated in February 2026.
Use Cases
- Analyze establishment employment responses to local credit supply shocks affecting other establishments within the same firm.
- Study the geographic propagation of local economic shocks through the network of establishments comprising multi-plant firms.
- Examine resource allocation patterns across a firm's constituent establishments during the Great Depression period.
Strengths
- Data is derived from the authoritative U.S. Census of Manufactures.
- Focuses on the historically significant period of the Great Depression.
- Enables analysis of firm networks and multi-establishment operations.
Limitations
- Specific column definitions, row counts, and file formats are unknown.
- The dataset's scope is limited to the manufacturing industry.
- Temporal and geographic coverage details are not specified.
Provenance
- Source
- U.S. Census of Manufactures
- Collection Method
- null
- Time Range
- Great Depression era
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- United States (implied)