ArticleRegional science and urban economics2018
Persistent Social Networks: Civil War Veterans Who Fought Together Co-Locate in Later Life.
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- Children and Grandchildren of Union Army Veterans: New Data Collections to Study the Persistence of Longevity and Socioeconomic Status Across Generations.Historical methods · 2023Article
- Data set from the Union Army samples to study locational choice and social networks.Data in brief · 2018Article
- Union Army Veterans, All Grown Up.Historical methodsArticle
- The Demography of Mortality Disadvantage Among Male U.S. Veterans in Later Life: New Evidence From the Health and Retirement Study.American journal of men's healthArticle
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Abstract
We demonstrate the long reach of early social ties in the location decision of individuals and in their older age mortality risk using data on Union Army veterans of the US Civil War (1861-5). We estimate discrete choice migration models to quantify the trade-offs across locations faced by veterans. Veterans were more likely to move to a neighborhood or county where men from their same war company lived and were more likely to move to such areas than to areas where other veterans were located. Veterans also were less likely to move far from their origin and avoided urban immigrant areas and high mortality risk areas. They also avoided areas that opposed the Civil War. This co-location evidence highlights the existence of persistent social networks. Such social networks had long-term consequences: veterans living close to war-time comrades had a 6% lower probability of dying.
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