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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES SURVIVING ANDERSONVILLE: THE BENEFITS OF SOCIAL NETWORKS IN POW CAMPS Dora L. Costa Matthew E. Kahn Working Paper 11825 http://www.nber.org/papers/w11825 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA... More

NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES SURVIVING ANDERSONVILLE: THE BENEFITS OF SOCIAL NETWORKS IN POW CAMPS Dora L. Costa Matthew E. Kahn Working Paper 11825 http://www.nber.org/papers/w11825 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 December 2005 We both gratefully acknowledge the support of NIH grant R01 AG19637 and Dora Costa also gratefully acknowledges the support of NIH grant P01 AG10120. We thank Claude Fischer, Alan Krueger, and the participants of workshops at the University of Chicago, Stanford University, the University of California at San Diego, Harvard University, MIT, Wharton, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Delaware, the University of Rome Tor Vergata and the University of Rome La Sapienza for comments. We thank the National Park Service for the use of their Andersonville database, Heather de Somer for research assistance, and Noelle Yetter for advice on data collection. The views expressed herein are those of the Less