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Long-term economic consequences of Vietnam-era conscription : schooling, experience and earnings
Angrist, Joshua D. (contributor);  … - 2008
these channels are likely to affect civilian earnings. New estimates of the effects of military service using Vietnam … substantial earnings losses for white Vietnam veterans in the 1970s and 1980s. The recent estimates also point to a marked … increase in post-secondary schooling that appears to be attributable to the Vietnam-era GI Bill. Seen through the lens of a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003752840
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Drawn into violence : evidence on "what makes a criminal" from the Vietnam draft lotteries
Lindo, Jason M.; Stoecker, Charles - 2010
Draft lottery number assignment during the Vietnam era provides a natural experiment to examine the effects of military … used to draft servicemen. -- crime ; violence ; military ; two-sample IV ; Vietnam War …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009006947
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Long-term health effects of Vietnam-Era military service : a quasi-experiment using Australian conscription lotteries
Johnston, David; Shields, Michael; Siminski, Peter - 2015
This paper estimates the long-term health effects of Vietnam-Era military service using Australia's National …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487512
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The impact of education on unemployment incidence and re-employment success : evidence from the US labour market
Riddell, William Craig; Song, Xueda - 2011
education, we make use of data on compulsory schooling laws and child labour laws as well as conscription risk in the Vietnam … ; labour market transitions ; unemployment ; causal effects ; compulsory schooling laws ; child labour laws ; Vietnam War draft …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009233917
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The long-term health impact of Agent Orange: evidence from the Vietnam war
Duong Trung Le; Thanh Minh Pham; Polachek, Solomon W. - 2021
used extensively during the U.S.-Vietnam war in the 1960-70s. Using a nationally representative health survey and an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012649405
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Lessons from the Ottoman Harem (on ethnicity, religion and war)
Iyigun, Murat (contributor) - 2008
The Ottoman Empire had a profound impact in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa at the apogee of its power, covering the era between 1453 C. E. and 1699 C. E. In this paper, I exploit the empire's unique culture and institutions to examine the roles of ethnicity and religion in conflict and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726794
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How opportunity costs decrease the probability of war in an incomplete information game
Polachek, Solomon W. (contributor); Xiang, Jun (contributor) - 2008
This paper shows that the opportunity costs resulting from economic interdependence decrease the equilibrium probability of war in an incomplete information game. This result is strongly consistent with existing empirical analyses of the inverse trade-conflict relationship, but is the opposite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003784394
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Identifying conflict and violence in micro-level surveys
Brück, Tilman; Justino, Patricia; Verwimp, Philip; … - 2010
The overall goal of the report is to increase the capacity of researchers and policy makers to identify comparatively, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an extensive overview of existing practices and datasets used...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008688854
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Does conflict disrupt growth? : evidence of the relationship between political instability and national economic performance
Polachek, Solomon W.; Sevastianova, Daria - 2010
Current empirical growth models limit the determinants of country growth to geographic, economic, and institutional variables. This study draws on conflict variables from the Correlates of War (COW) project to ask a critical question: How do different types of conflict affect country growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003940441
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Violent conflict and inequality
Bircan, Cagatay; Brück, Tilman; Vothknecht, Marc - 2010
This paper analyzes the distributive impacts of violent conflicts, which is in contrast to previous literature that has focused on the other direction. We use cross-country panel data for the time period 1960-2005 to estimate war-related changes in income inequality. Our results indicate rising...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003975352