Surviving Andersonville : the benefits of social networks in POW camps / Dora L. Costa, Matthew E. Kahn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Costa, Dora L., author.

Kahn, Matthew E., 1966- author.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) ; Number w11825.

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) ; Number w11825

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisoners of war--Social conditions.

Prisoners of war.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (33 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : National Bureau of Economic Research, 2005.

Summary:

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.

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