Evidence from the Forty-Eighters in the Civil War
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES LEADERSHIP AND SOCIAL NORMS: EVIDENCE FROM THE FORTY-EIGHTERS IN THE CIVIL WAR Christian Dippel Stephan Heblich Working Paper 24656 http://www.nber.org/papers/w24656 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 May 2018 We thank Daron Acemoglu, Toman Barsbai, Jean-Paul Carvalho, Dora Costa, James Feigenbaum, Raquel Fernandez, Paola Giuliano, Michael Haines, Tarek Hassan, Naomi Lamoreux, Gary Libecap, Jakob Schneebacher, Nico Voigtänder, Romain Wazciarg, Gavin Wright, Guo Xu, and seminar participants at UCLA, U Calgary, the NBER DAE and POL meetings, the EHA meetings, and the UCI IMBS conference for valuable comments. We thank Andrea di Miceli, Jake Kantor, Sebastian Ottinger, and Anton Sobolov for excellent research assistance. We thank Michael Haines for sharing his cleaned version of the 1850 and 1860 town- level data. We thank Yannick Dupraz and Andreas Ferrara for data-sharing and joint efforts in collecting the Civil War soldier and regiments data. We thank John Wallis and Jeremy Darrington for helpful advice in locating sub-county voting data for the period, although we ultimately could not use it. Dippel acknowledges financial support for this project from the UCLA Center of Global Management, the UCLA Price Center and the UCLA Burkle Center. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. NBER working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes. They have not been peer-reviewed or been subject to the review by the NBER Board of Directors that accompanies official NBER publications.
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