The Dynamics and Spillovers of Management Interventions: Evidence from the Training Within Industry Program

We thank Philipp Ager, John Asker, Andy Atkenson, Simon Board, Ryan Boone, Bruno Caprettini, Dora Costa, Alessandra Fenizia, Mitch Hoffman, Taylor Jaworski, Giampaolo Lecce, Adriana Lleras-Muney, Claudia Martinez, Niko Matouschek, Joel Mokyr, Giuseppe Nicoletti, Jagadeesh Sivadasan, Nico Voigtlaender, Melanie Wasserman, as well as seminar and conference participants at U. Bocconi, U. of Bologna, Chicago Booth, Columbia GSB, Empirical Management Conference, Erasmus University Rotterdam, HBS, KU Leuven, MIT, Monash U., Mountain West Economic History Conference, NBER Summer Institute, NYU Stern, OECD Productivity Forum, PUC-Rio de Janeiro, PUC-Santiago, Queen’s Smith School of Business, UBC, UCLA, UCSD, U. Torcuato Di Tella, U. of New South Wales, U. of Queensland, U. of Sydney, and Yale U. We are grateful to Dmitri Koustas and James Lee for kindly sharing with us the war contracts data and the 1939 census data, respectively. Juan Rojas and Zhihao Xu provided outstanding research assistance. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.