cam a22 2 4500 555253511 CHVBK 20200325071234.0 cr ||||||||||| 190204s2019 xxu||||||---- 00 |eng-d (OCoLC)1085673306 (IDSSG)001032140 SzZuIDS HSG ger rda Costa Dora Verfasser aut The Impact of a Wartime Health Shock on the Postwar Socioeconomic Status and Mortality of Union Army Veterans and their Children Dora Costa, Noelle Yetter, Heather DeSomer Cambridge, MA National Bureau of Economic Research 2019 1 Online-Ressource Text txt rdacontent/ger Computermedien c rdamedia/ger Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier/ger NBER working paper series 25480 25480 (IDSSG)000043070 523018967 We investigate when and how health shocks reverberate across the life cycle and down to descendants by examining the impact of war wounds on the socioeconomic status and older age mortality of US Civil War (1861-5) veterans and of their adult children. Younger veterans who had been wounded in the war left the farm sector, becoming laborers. Consistent with human capital and job matching models, older wounded men were unlikely to switch sectors and experienced wealth declines. Fathers' severe wartime wounds affected daughters', but not sons', socioeconomic status. Daughters were shorter-lived if their fathers were older at the end of the war and had been severely wounded compared to daughters of fathers not severely wounded or younger when severely wounded. We suspect that early life conditions disproportionately affected daughters. Our findings illuminate the long reach of disability in a manual labor economy. Yetter Noelle Verfasser aut DeSomer Heather Verfasser aut http://www.nber.org/papers/w25480 Full text for the University of St. Gallen noalma ids I IDSSG 100 1- Costa Dora Verfasser aut IDSSG 490 0- NBER working paper series 25480 25480 (IDSSG)000043070 523018967 IDSSG 700 1- Yetter Noelle Verfasser aut IDSSG 700 1- DeSomer Heather Verfasser aut IDSSG 856 -- http://www.nber.org/papers/w25480 Full text for the University of St. Gallen BK020053 XK020053 XK020000 IDSSG HSG HSG ONL HONL001032140