used to draft servicemen. -- crime ; violence ; military ; two-sample IV ; Vietnam War …Draft lottery number assignment during the Vietnam era provides a natural experiment to examine the effects of military …

; labour market transitions ; unemployment ; causal effects ; compulsory schooling laws ; child labour laws ; Vietnam War draft … education, we make use of data on compulsory schooling laws and child labour laws as well as conscription risk in the Vietnam … War period to create instrumental variables to identify the causal relationships. Results indicate that education …

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 …

detailed PEACE II accounts. Noting potential selection and omitted variables biases, we implement two-stage random effects …

conflict and makes the ideologues more successful yet worse off. Our results rationalize "imperial peace" - long periods of … stability and social peace in multi-ethnic empires, and explain why the weakening and breakdown of such empires is often …

perception of economic well-being, possibly influenced by such tactics, predicts war and peace onset. Using unique data … war onset during periods of rebel recruitment, and with earlier peace onset in general. These results hold regardless of … suggest that civilian perception of well-being ought to be considered seriously as a determinant of war and peace. …

This paper estimates the long-term health effects of Vietnam-Era military service using Australia's National …

used extensively during the U.S.-Vietnam war in the 1960-70s. Using a nationally representative health survey and an … Vietnamese civilians located in a commune one-standard-deviation more exposed to herbicide during the war were 19.75 percent more …

war outcome and, above a certain size, contributes to the escalation of violence. Given the characteristics of the … makes both of them better off than war. We then identify the characteristics of the economy such that the diaspora acts as a … peace-wrecking force or triggers a transition towards peace. A dynamic version of the model with an endogenous diaspora …