Search Results - subject:"Veterans"

Effects of Work-Related Absences on Families : Evidence from the Gulf War

Angrist, Joshua D.; Johnson, John H. - 2021

Labor economists and policy makers have long been interested in work-family interactions. Work generates income but also reduces the time families have to spend together. Many soldiers who were mobilized for Gulf War service were away from home for an extended period of time, so Gulf War...

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Bootstrap Tests for the Effect of a Treatment on the Distribution of an Outcome Variable

Abadie, Alberto - 2021

This paper considers the problem of assessing the distributional consequences of a treatment on some outcome variable of interest when treatment intake is (possibly) non-randomized but there is a binary instrument available for the researcher. Such scenario is common in observational studies and...

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Closing the Gap or Widening the Divide : The Effects of the G.I. Bill and World War Ii on the Educational Outcomes of Black Americans

Turner, Sarah E.; Bound, John - 2021

those black veterans likely to be limited to the South in their educational choices, the G.I. Bill had little effect on …

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Public and Private Options in Practice : The Military Health System

Frakes, Michael; Gruber, Jonathan; Justicz, Timothy - 2021

Recent debates over health care reform, including in the context of the Military Health System (MHS) and Veterans …

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Forging a New Identity : The Costs and Benefits of Diversity in Civil War Combat Units for Black Slaves and Freemen

Costa, Dora L.; Kahn, Matthew E. - 2021

By the end of the Civil War, 186,017 black men had fought for the Union Army and roughly three-quarters of these men were former slaves. Because most of the black soldiers who served were illiterate farm workers, the war exposed them to a much broader world. The war experience of these men...

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The Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service on the Long-Term Health of Veterans : A Bounds Analysis

Wang, Xintong; Flores, Carlos A.; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso - 2021

We analyze the short- and long-term effects of the U.S. Vietnam-era military service on veterans' health outcomes using … non-veterans regardless of their draft eligibility (the "never takers"). Since we do not find evidence against the … "always takers"). The causal analysis for volunteers, who represent over 75% of veterans, is novel in this literature that …

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The Measure of Man and Older Age Mortality : Evidence from the Gould Sample

Costa, Dora L. - 2021

This paper documents differences in body size between white, black, and Indian mid-nineteenth century American men and investigates the socioeconomic and demographic determinants of frame size using a unique data set of Civil War soldiers. It finds that over time men have grown taller and...

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Military Veterans and Social Security

Gesumaria, Robert; Weaver, David - 2021

Military veterans constitute an important subgroup of Social Security beneficiaries. One out of every four adult Social … Security beneficiaries has served in the military, and two out of five are either veterans or reside with family members who … are veterans. The number of veterans who receive Social Security has grown steadily since 1968 and is near an all …

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Discrimination and State Capacity : Evidence from WWII U.S. Army Enlistment

Qian, Nancy; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper investigates the empirical relationship between inclusion and state capacity, as theorized by Besley and Persson (2009). We examine the impact of racial discrimination on Black U.S. military enlistment during the onset of WWII. We find that discrimination had a large and negative...

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Health Shocks of the Father and Longevity of the Children's Children

Costa, Dora L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Whether and how a paternal health shock cascades across multiple generations to affect descendant health is understudied even though a link between ancestral living conditions and descendant health may constitute an important source of differences in the stock of health capital across families...

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