Gregory Hooks, Leonard E. Bloomquist, The Legacy of World War II for Regional Growth and Decline: The Cumulative Effects of Wartime Investments on U.S. Manufacturing, 1947-1972, Social Forces, Vol. 71, No. 2 (Dec., 1992), pp. 303-337
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Hooks et al. (1992) studied this question.