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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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

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary 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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      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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