Replication data for: Surviving Andersonville: The Benefits of Social Networks in POW Camps
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Dora L. Costa; Matthew E. Kahn
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Project Citation:
Costa, Dora L., and Kahn, Matthew E. Replication data for: Surviving Andersonville: The Benefits of Social Networks in POW Camps. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2007. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-12-07. https://doi.org/10.3886/E116292V1
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Summary:
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Twenty-seven percent of the Union Army prisoners captured July 1863 or later died in captivity. At Andersonville, the death rate may have been as high as 40 percent. How did men survive such horrific conditions? Using two independent datasets, we find that friends had a statistically significant positive effect on survival probabilities and that the closer the ties between friends as measured by such identifiers as ethnicity, kinship, and
the same hometown, the bigger was the impact of friends on survival probabilities. (JEL N41, Z13)
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JEL Classification:
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N41 Economic History: Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation: U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913
Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
N41 Economic History: Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation: U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913
Z13 Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
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