Data set from the Union Army samples to study locational choice and social networks
Dora L. Costa,
Matthew E. Kahn,
Christopher Roudiez,
Sven Wilson
Affiliations
Dora L. Costa
Corresponding author.; University of California, Los Angeles and NBER, University of Southern California and NBER, University of Maryland, Brigham Young University, United States
Matthew E. Kahn
University of California, Los Angeles and NBER, University of Southern California and NBER, University of Maryland, Brigham Young University, United States
Christopher Roudiez
University of California, Los Angeles and NBER, University of Southern California and NBER, University of Maryland, Brigham Young University, United States
Sven Wilson
University of California, Los Angeles and NBER, University of Southern California and NBER, University of Maryland, Brigham Young University, United States
We describe the publicly available data created by the NIA funded Early Indicators program project, often referred to as the Union Army data, and the subset of these data used in “Persistent Social Networks: Civil War Veterans Who Fought Together Co-Locate in Later Life” (Costa et al., Forthcoming) [1]. This data subset can be used for reproducibility and extensions and also illustrates how the original complex data derived from archival administrative records can be used. Keywords: Social networks, Migration, Mortality
