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We study the efficiency and distributional consequences of establishing and abolishing the draft in a dynamic model with overlapping generations, taking into account endogenous human capital formation as well as government budget constraints. The introduction of the draft initially benefits the...
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existence of conscription, albeit usually at low statistical significance. However, the intensity of its enforcement, measured …
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We propose a dynamic general equilibrium model with human capital accumulation to evaluate the economic consequences of compulsory services (such as military draft or social services). Our analysis identifies a so far ignored dynamic cost arising from distortions in time allocation over the...
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height and use province level information for investigating the determinants of biological wellbeing. The results indicate a … decline of more than 1.5 cm (0.6 inches) in the height of soldiers born between the early 1870s and the late 1880s. The … also find that at 159.3 cm (62.7 inches), the average height of soldiers born in the mid-1870s was very short even for the …
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The average height of children is an indicator for the quality of nutrition and health care. Heights have never … German Land of Brandenburg, a data set of 253,050 pre-school height measurements was compiled and complemented with … health care. Both a panel analysis of districts and an assessment at the individual level yield the result that increasing …
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explanations for the height-wage premium. Another possible mechanism, employer discrimination, has found little support. In this … that there is a consistent height-wage premium across Europe and that it is largely due to occupational sorting. We show … that height has a significant effect for the occupational sorting of employed workers but not for the self-employed. We …
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Several studies have shown that body height is positively associated with educational attainment. In this paper, we …. In addition, we present some evidence that height and social skills are positively associated already at age 2-3. Our … results imply that controlling for social skills would significantly reduce estimates of the height-school premium. With …
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married to a White person than Chinese women. We argue that differences in height distributions, combined with a simple …
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The trend of the height of Indian scouts in the U.S. Army born between ca. 1825 and 1875 is analyzed. Their average … height of ca. 170 cm (67 in.) confirms that natives were tall compared to Europeans but were nearly the shortest among the … rural populations in the New World. The trend in their height describes a slightly inverted U shape with an increase between …
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We study the health effects of the spread of democratic institutions and the extension of voting rights in 15 European … and contestation in reducing inequality and expanding health insurance coverage. …
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