The human capital of black soldiers during the American Civil War

Kitae Sohn

Economics Letters, 2014, vol. 122, issue 1, 40-43

Abstract: Analyzing three datasets on black and white soldiers and the black and white populations from the same birth years, this paper finds that black soldiers during the American Civil War had much higher human capital than the black population.

Keywords: Human capital; Black soldiers; American Civil War; Age heaping; Census (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I20 N30 N31 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.10.035

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