This study examines a wide range of health and economic outcomes in a sample of Irish- and African-American Civil War …

This paper uses data from 802,777 veterans assigned to 7,548 primary care providers (PCPs) within the Veterans Health … Administration (VHA) to examine variations in the efficacy of primary care providers (PCPs), their consequences for health outcomes … dimensions: the probability their patients have subsequent hospitalizations or emergency department (ED) visits for mental health …

We investigate when and how health shocks reverberate across the life cycle and down to descendants in a manual labor …

Whether and how a paternal health shock cascades across multiple generations to affect descendant health is … understudied even though a link between ancestral living conditions and descendant health may constitute an important source of … differences in the stock of health capital across families and thus across ethnic, racial and social groups. I study how a …

claims from Vietnam veterans, raising concerns about costs as well as health. We use the draft lottery to study the long …-term effects of Vietnam-era military service on health and work in the 2000 Census. These estimates show no significant overall …

differences in wartime health. For example, the advantages of light-skinned soldiers over dark-skinned and of enlisted men … soldiers. Among the factors that contributed to a lower probability of contracting and dying from diseases were (1) lighter … nutritional status. The results of this paper suggest that there were substantial disparities in the health of the slave …

-run health follow-ups of the interaction between stress and social networks in a human population in which both stress and social …

investigates the socioeconomic and demographic determinants of frame size using a unique data set of Civil War soldiers. It finds …