Table of Contents
Cowards and Heroes: Group Loyalty in the U.S Civil War
Introduction
What motivates soldiers to be loyal to this organization?
Empirical Contribution
Cowardly and heroic deeds
The Paper Contributes to Three Growing Literatures
Production of Social Capital
Empirical Organizational Design
Demand and Supply of Military Loyalty
For the Military: Social Capital can substitute for monetary incentives
How Does Social Capital help this Organization Function?
Will the Men Supply Loyalty?
Production Function Framework
Empirical Design
Robert Fogel’s Union Army Sample
Company Formation
Advantages of our Empirical Design
Demographic and socio-economic Determinants
Community Determinants
Ideological Determinants
Morale Determinants
The Geography of Cowardice and Heroism
Summary Statistics
We Estimate Separate Hazard Models for Desertion, Arrests, AWOL, and Promotion
Individual Attributes
Community Level Variables
Community Continued
The “Dark Side” of Social Capital Hypothesis
Ideology
Morale
Optimal Organizational Design
Conclusion
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Author: matthew kahn
Email: costa@mit.edu
Home Page: http://web.mit.edu/costa/www/
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