their wealth declined by 37-46%. War wounds were correlated with children's socioeconomic and mortality outcomes in ways …We investigate when and how health shocks reverberate across the life cycle and down to descendants in a manual labor … economy by examining the association of war wounds with the socioeconomic status and older age mortality of US CivilWar (1861 …

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 …