TY  - JOUR
AU  - Fogel,Robert W.
AU  - Wimmer,Larry T.
TI  - Early Indicators of Later Work Levels, Disease, and Death
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Historical Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 38
PY  - 1992
Y2  - May 1992
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/h0038
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/h0038.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Robert W. Fogel
Director,  Center for Population Economics
University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business
5807 S. Woodlawn Avenue, Suite 367
Chicago, IL  60637
Tel: 773/702-7709
Fax: 773/702-2901
E-Mail: rwf@cpe.uchicago.edu

Larry T. Wimmer
Department of Economics
149 Faculty Office Building
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT  84602
Tel: 801/378-3354
Fax: 801/378-2844
E-Mail: larry_wimmer@byu.edu
AB  - This paper summarizes a collaborative project designed to create a public-use tape suitable for a prospective study of aging among a random sample of 39,616 men mustered into 331 companies of the Union Army. The aim of the project is to measure the effect of socioeconomics and biomedical factors during childhood and early adulthood on the development of specific chronic disease at middle and late ages, on labor force participation at these later ages, and on elapsed time to death. This paper surveys the nature of and quality of the data and data sources to be included in the study, discusses the characteristics of a subsample of recruits from 20 companies recently recruited, looks at questions of representativeness of Union Army recruits to the Northern white male population, and finally examines several issues involving questions of possible selection bias due to linkage failure. 
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