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Title: AMIDST POVERTY AND PREJUDICE: BLACK AND IRISH CIVIL WAR VETERANS

Citation Type: Working Paper

Publication Year: 2013

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Abstract: This study examines a wide range of health and economic outcomes in a sample of Irish- and African-American Civil War veterans during the postbellum period. The information in our data is from a variety of circumstances across an individual's life span, and we use that to attempt to explain whether the disparities in mortality are related to disparities in life experiences. We find evidence of disparities between Irish and blacks and others in such variables as occupation and wealth, morbidity, and mortality. The data do not reveal disparate outcomes for all blacks and Irish; they only reveal inferior outcomes for slave-born blacks and foreign-born Irish. For the freeborn blacks and native-born Irish, for whom the historical tradition suggests discrimination and prejudice, the data only hint at such problems.

Url: http://www.nber.org/papers/w19605

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Authors: Bleakley, Hoyt; Cain, Louis; Ferrie, Joseph

Series Title: NBER Working Paper Series

Publication Number: 19605

Institution: National Bureau of Economic Research

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Publisher Location: Cambridge, MA

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Race and Ethnicity

Countries: United States