Health, stress, and social networks
Subtitle: evidence from Union Army veterans
By: Dora L. Costa, Matthew E. Kahn.
Contributors: Kahn, Matthew E., 1966-; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 14053; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 14053.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "We find that veterans of the Union Army who faced greater wartime stress (as measured by higher battlefield mortality rates) experienced higher mortality rates at older ages, but that men who were from more cohesive companies were statistically significantly less likely to be affected by wartime stress.  Our results hold for overall mortality, mortality from ischemic heart disease and stroke, and new diagnoses of arteriosclerosis.  Our findings represent one of the first long-run health follow-ups of the interaction between stress and social networks in a human population in which both stress and social networks are arguably exogeneous"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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