Wartime Health Shocks and the Postwar Socioeconomic Status and Mortality of Union Army Veterans and their Children
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- I12 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - Health Behavior
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- N12 - Economic History - - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics; Industrial Structure; Growth; Fluctuations - - - U.S.; Canada: 1913-
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGE-2019-02-04 (Economics of Ageing)
- NEP-HEA-2019-02-04 (Health Economics)
- NEP-HIS-2019-02-04 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-LMA-2019-02-04 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
- NEP-LTV-2019-02-04 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
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