Union Army Data
(used in many papers)
(used for "The Measure of Man and Older Age:
Mortality Evidence from the Gould Sample")
Birth Records
(used for "Race and Pregnancy Outcomes in the
Twentieth Century: A Long-Term Comparison" and
"Unequal at Birth: A Long-Term Comparison of Income and Birth Weight")
Sokoloff-Villaflor Muster Rolls
(used for "Long-Term Trends in Health, Welfare, and Economic Growth in the United States")
1907, 1909, and 1916 Social Statistics of Cities
(used for "Public Health and Mortality:
What Can We Learn from the Past?")
- 1907 available here
- 1909 and 1916 available at Center for Population Economics, under subsidiary Union Army datasets
(used for "Public Health and Mortality:
What Can We Learn from the Past?")
State Mortality Rates by Cause
(used for "Public Health and Mortality:
What Can We Learn from the Past?")
Fatality Rates by Industry and Workers' Compensation by State
(used for "Changes in the Value of Life, 1940-1980"
OAA Data (used for "A House of Her Own:
Old Age Assistance and the Living Arrangements of Older Nonmarried Women.")
