Cipollone, Piero; Rosolia, Alfonso - In: American Economic Review 97 (2007) 3, pp. 948-965
After an earthquake hit Southern Italy in 1980, young men from certain towns were exempted from compulsory military service. We show that the exemption raised high-school-graduation rates of boys by more than 2 percentage points. We do this by comparing high-school-graduation rates of young...