Surviving Andersonville
Subtitle: the benefits of social networks in POW camps
By: Dora L. Costa, Matthew E. Kahn.
Contributors: Kahn, Matthew E., 1966-; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 11825; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 11825.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Andersonville Prison; Prisoners of war -- United States -- Social conditions; Social networks -- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Prisoners and prisons
Description: "Twenty-seven percent of the Union Army prisoners captured July 1863 or later died in captivity.  At Andersonville the death rate may have been as high as 40 percent.  How did men survive such horrific conditions? Using two independent data sets we find that friends had a statistically significant positive effect on survival probabilities and that the closer the ties between friends as measured by such identifiers as ethnicity, kinship, and the same hometown the bigger the impact of friends on survival probabilities"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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