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-5) veterans and of their adult children. Younger veterans who had been severely wounded in the war left the farm sector, becoming … their wealth declined by 37-46%. War wounds were correlated with children's socioeconomic and mortality outcomes in ways …
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mobility across generations. The data follow the children of Black and White Union Army veterans from birth to death, linking … them to the available censuses. The White samples include an over-sample of children of ex-POWs. A separate collection …
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We document the correlations between early childhood health (as proxied by height) and educational attainment and investigate the labor market and wealth returns to height for United States cohorts born between 1820 and 1990. The nineteenth century was characterized by low investments in height...
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