Children and Grandchildren of Union Army Veterans: New Data Collections to Study the Persistence of Longevity and Socioeconomic Status Across Generations

Dora Costa, CoraLee Lewis and Noelle Yetter

No 30747, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: 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 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.

JEL-codes: I14 J01 J10 N01 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-12
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Published as 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, vol 56(4), pages 223-239.

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