4. Union Army Widows and the Historical Take-Up of Social Benefits

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Relation of the Directors to the Work and Publications of the NBER vi
3. Contents vii
4. Introduction 1
5. I. NEW EVIDENCE ON WAGE INEQUALITY
6. 1. Wage Inequality in American Manufacturing, 1820-1940: New Evidence 17
7. 2. A Real Great Compression: Inflation and Inequality in the 1940s 45
8. II. MEASURING INEQUALITY IN WELL- BEING
9. 3. Income Gains and the Geography of the US Homeownership Boom, 1940-1960 87
10. 4. Union Army Widows and the Historical Take-Up of Social Benefits 123
11. 5. Marital Matching and Women's Intergenerational Mobility in the Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century US 165
12. III. CONSEQUENCES OF INEQUALITY
13. 6. The Political Fallout of Machine Tool Automation in the Mid-20th-Century United States 199
14. IV . CODA
15. 7. The Incubator of Human Capital: The NBER and the Rise of the Human Capital Paradigm 225
16. Author Index 249
17. Subject Index 253