Health, Information, and Migration: Geographic Mobility of Union Army Veterans, 1860-1880
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- Lee, Chulhee, 2008. "Health, Information, and Migration: Geographic Mobility of Union Army Veterans, 1860–1880," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 68(3), pages 862-899, September.
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