Data
Veterans’ Grandchildren Mortality Plus: Vital Records, Census and Draft Cards Across Three Generations. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-02-05. https://doi.org/10.3886/E197701V2
Union Army Data
(used in many papers)
Collected Datasets (Union Army, US Colored Troops (USCT), Expanded USCT, Urban, Andersonville, Veterans’ Children Census). Data collected from the military service record, Civil War pension system and census data for over 60,000 Union Army soldiers and for their children, who have been linked to death records and all available census records. Data are available for bulk download at NBER.
Data for Figures in
"Health and the Economy in the United States, from 1750 to the Present"
Gould Sample
(used for "The Measure of Man and Older Age:
Mortality Evidence from the Gould Sample")
Birth Records
(used for "Race and Pregnancy Outcomes in the
Twentieth Century: A Long-Term Comparison" and
"Unequal at Birth: A Long-Term Comparison of Income and Birth Weight")
Sokoloff-Villaflor Muster Rolls
(used for "Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States")
1907, 1909, and 1916 Social Statistics of Cities
(used for "Public Health and Mortality:
What Can We Learn from the Past?")
1931 White House Conference on Child Health and Protection
(used for "Public Health and Mortality:
What Can We Learn from the Past?")
State Mortality Rates by Cause
(used for "Public Health and Mortality:
What Can We Learn from the Past?")
Fatality Rates by Industry and Workers' Compensation by State
(used for "Changes in the Value of Life, 1940-1980"
OAA Data (used for "A House of Her Own:
Old Age Assistance and the Living Arrangements of Older Nonmarried Women.")
