The human capital of black soldiers during the American Civil War

Analyzing three datasets on black and white soldiers and the black and white populations from the same birth years, this paper finds that black soldiers during the American Civil War had much higher human capital than the black population.

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Year of publication:	2014
Authors:	Sohn, Kitae
Published in:	Economics Letters. - Elsevier, ISSN 0165-1765. - Vol. 122.2014, 1, p. 40-43
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Human capital \| Black soldiers \| American Civil War \| Age heaping \| Census

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Type of publication:	Article
Classification:	I20 - Education. General ; N30 - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Income and Wealth. General, International, or Comparative ; N31 - U.S.; Canada: Pre-1913 ; O15 - Human Resources; Income Distribution; Migration
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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