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作者

来源

REGIONAL SCIENCE AND URBAN ECONOMICS,Vol.70,P.289-299

语言

英文

关键字

UNION ARMY VETERANS; RESIDENTIAL LOCATION; UNITED-STATES; HEALTH; BENEFITS; INCOME

作者单位

[Costa, Dora L.] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Econ, 9272 Bunche Hall, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA. [Costa, Dora L.; Kahn, Matthew E.; Roudiez, Christopher] NBER, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA. [Kahn, Matthew E.] USC, Dept Econ, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA. [Wilson, Sven] BYU, Dept Polit Sci, Provo, UT USA. Kahn, ME (reprint author), USC, Dept Econ, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA. E-Mail: costa@econ.ucla.edu; kahnme@usc.edu; croudiez@gmail.com; sven_wilson@byu.edu

摘要

We demonstrate the long reach of early social ties in the location decision of individuals and in their older age mortality risk using data on Union Army veterans of the US Civil War (1861-5). We estimate discrete choice migration models to quantify the trade-offs across locations faced by veterans. Veterans were more likely to move to a neighborhood or county where men from their same war company lived and were more likely to move to such areas than to areas where other veterans were located. Veterans also were less likely to move far from their origin and avoided urban immigrant areas and high mortality risk areas. They also avoided areas that opposed the Civil War. This co-location evidence highlights the existence of persistent social networks. Such social networks had long-term consequences: veterans living close to war-time comrades had a 6% lower probability of dying.