Wartime health shocks and the postwar socioeconomic status and mortality of union army veterans and their children
| Autor: | Dora L. Costa, Heather DeSomer, Noelle Yetter |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Employment Male Warfare Databases Factual Health Status Social class Human capital Article 03 medical and health sciences Child of Impaired Parents Political science 0502 economics and business Humans 050207 economics Socioeconomic status health care economics and organizations Veterans Extramural 030503 health policy & services Health Policy 05 social sciences Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Paternal age humanities United States Spanish Civil War Military Personnel Social Class American Civil War Wounds and Injuries Female 0305 other medical science Demography |
| Zdroj: | J Health Econ |
| ISSN: | 1879-1646 |
| Popis: | We investigate when and how health shocks reverberate across the life cycle and down to descendants in a manual labor economy by examining the association of war wounds with the socioeconomic status and older age mortality of US Civil War (1861-5) veterans and of their adult children. Younger veterans who had been severely wounded in the war left the farm sector, becoming laborers. Consistent with human capital and job matching models, older severely wounded men were unlikely to switch sectors and their wealth declined by 37-46%. War wounds were correlated with children's socioeconomic and mortality outcomes in ways dependent on sex and paternal age group. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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