Cowards and Heroes: Group Loyalty in the American Civil War

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On the Empirics of Social Capital (2002, unknown): “TABLE 4: STUDIES OF SOCIAL CAPITAL FORMATION AND THE LEVEL OF SOCIAL CAPITAL STUDY AGENTS SOCIAL CAPITAL MEASURES POTENTIAL DETERMINANTS FINDINGS Alesina and La Ferrara (2002) Adults in US Trust Miscellaneous personal and community characteristics Low social capital measures for individuals are asso”
Why the Referential Treatment? Evidence from Field Experiments on Referrals (2016, unknown): “…likely to free-ride; Bandiera, Barankay, and Rasul (2005) find that workers are more able to cooperate with their teammates when their teammates are friends; and Costa and Kahn (2003) find that Civil War soldiers were less likely to desert when more of their unit were from their own birthplace.”
Moral psychology is relationship regulation: moral motives for unity, hierarchy, equality, and proportionality. (2011, unknown): “…have also found that Union soldiers in the Civil War who had social commonalities with each other, such as belonging to the same religion or race or coming from the same town, were more likely to risk their lives for their military company by staying rather than deserting (Costa & Kahn, 2003).”
Why does democracy need education? (2007, unknown): “Costa and Kahn (2003) show that illiteracy strongly predicts desertion among Union soldiers in the American Civil War. Ferguson (1999) looks at the ratio of prisoners of war to total casualties across countries during the First World War.”