This project will analyze the life-cycle development of the burden of chronic diseases in six 5-year birth-cohorts that reached age 65 between 1885 and 1915. It will seek to identify patterns in the timing of the onset of specific chronic diseases, in the development of co-morbidities, in the changing severity of disease burdens over the life cycle, and in the relationship of patterns of disease burdens to causes of death. The project will also seek to identify risk factors during developmental, young adult, and middle age that affected both the development of the burden of diseases after age 50 and longevity. Special attention will be paid to the life-cycle burden of chronic disease among Union Army (UA) veterans who survived to extreme ages, defined for this population as the longest-lived 10% (age 87 or over), 5% (age 90 or over), and 1% (age 95 or over). The age of onset, the duration, the severity, and the prevalence of chronic disease burdens among Union Army cohorts will be compared with those of the WWI, WWII, Korean War and other cohorts that turned 65 from the mid-1950s on.
| Costa, Dora L; Yetter, Noelle; DeSomer, Heather (2018) Intergenerational transmission of paternal trauma among US Civil War ex-POWs. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 115:11215-11220 |
| Costa, Dora L; Kahn, Matthew E; Roudiez, Christopher et al. (2018) Persistent Social Networks: Civil War Veterans Who Fought Together Co-Locate in Later Life. Reg Sci Urban Econ 70:289-299 |
| Costa, Dora L; Kahn, Matthew E; Roudiez, Christopher et al. (2018) Data set from the Union Army samples to study locational choice and social networks. Data Brief 17:226-233 |
| Costa, Dora L; Kahn, Matthew E (2017) DEATH AND THE MEDIA: INFECTIOUS DISEASE REPORTING DURING THE HEALTH TRANSITION. Economica 84:393-416 |
| Costa, Dora L; DeSomer, Heather; Hanss, Eric et al. (2017) Union Army Veterans, All Grown Up. Hist Methods 50:79-95 |
| Bleakley, Hoyt; Hong, Sok Chul (2017) Adapting to the Weather: Lessons from U.S. History. J Econ Hist 77:756-795 |
| Abramitzky, Ran; Boustan, Leah (2017) Immigration in American Economic History. J Econ Lit 55:1311-1345 |
| Bleakley, Hoyt; Ferrie, Joseph (2016) Shocking Behavior: Random Wealth in Antebellum Georgia and Human Capital Across Generations. Q J Econ 131:1455-1495 |
| Costa, Dora (2015) Health and the Economy in the United States, from 1750 to the Present. J Econ Lit 53:503-570 |
| Costa, Dora L; Kahn, Matthew E (2015) Declining Mortality Inequality within Cities during the Health Transition. Am Econ Rev 105:564-9 |
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