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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

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  • Dora L. Costa
  • Coralee Lewis
  • Noelle Yetter

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This paper introduces four new intergenerational and multigenerational datasets which follow both sons and daughters and which can be used to study the persistence of longevity, socioeconomic status, family structure, and geographic mobility across generations. The data follow the children of Black and White Union Army (US Civil War, 1861-5) veterans from birth to death, linking them to the available censuses. The White samples include an over-sample of children of ex-POWs. A separate collection links grandchildren of White Union Army veterans to their death records. The data were created with high quality manual linkage procedures utilizing a wide variety of records to establish links.

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  • Dora L. Costa & Coralee Lewis & Noelle Yetter, 2023. "Children and grandchildren of Union Army veterans: New data collections to study the persistence of longevity and socioeconomic status across generations," Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 56(4), pages 223-239, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:vhimxx:v:56:y:2023:i:4:p:223-239
    DOI: 10.1080/01615440.2023.2301578
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    • I14 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health and Inequality
    • J01 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics: General
    • J10 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - General
    • N01 - Economic History - - General - - - Development of the Discipline: Historiographical; Sources and Methods

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