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Estimating the veteran effect with endogenous schooling when instruments are potentially weak
Chaudhuri, Saraswata; Rose, Elaina - 2009
Instrumental variables estimates of the effect of military service on subsequent civilian earnings either omit schooling or treat it as exogenous. In a more general setting that also allows for the treatment of schooling as endogenous, we estimate the veteran effect for men who were born between...
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Weighing the military option : the effects of wartime conditions on investments in human capital
Duncan, Brian; Mansour, Hani; Rintala, Bryson - 2016
supply of new soldiers in that county, and changed the observable characteristics of soldiers who enlisted in that county …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011532577
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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 conscription lotteries for identification. Our primary contribution is the quality and breadth of our health outcomes. We use several administrative sources, containing a near-universe of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010487512
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The effects of compulsory military service exemption on education and labor market outcomes : evidence from a natural experiment
Torun, Huzeyfe; Tumen, Semih - 2016
Based on a law enacted in November 1999, males born on or before December 31st 1972 are given the option to benefit from a paid exemption from compulsory military service in Turkey. Exploiting this natural experiment, we devise an empirical strategy to estimate the intention-to-treat effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011494016
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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 service on crime. Using exact dates of birth for inmates in state and federal prisons in 1979, 1986, and 1991, we find robust evidence of effects on violent crimes among...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009006947
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Paying to avoid recession : using reenlistment to estimate the cost of unemployment
Borgschulte, Mark; Martorell, Paco - 2016
This paper provides revealed-preference estimates of the monetary value of avoiding job search in a high-unemployment labor market by examining the behavior of military servicemembers deciding between reenlisting and exiting the military. We find that servicemembers would sacrifice 1.5-2% in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450439
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Military draft and economic growth in OECD countries
Keller, Katarina (contributor); Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2006
Economic theory predicts that military conscription is associated with static inefficiencies as well as with dynamic distortions of the accumulation of human and physical capital. Relative to an economy with an all-volunteer force, output levels and growth rates should be lower in countries that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003296132
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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; 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012418660
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The labor market earnings of veterans: is military experience more or less valuable than civilian experience?
Makridis, Christos A.; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2021
We assess the labor market experiences of military veterans, focusing on three major outcomes, among others … and female veterans receive civilian earnings nearly equivalent to nonveteran men and women. This finding implies that … military experience is valued in the labor market similarly to foregone civilian experience. Second, veterans are clustered in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012603869
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Combat, xasualties, and xompensation : evidence from Iraq and Afghanistan
Armey, Laura; Kniesner, Thomas J.; Leeth, John D.; … - 2018
Our research examines the effect of combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan on casualties. We use restricted data from the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) and Social Security Administration (SSA) to construct a panel of all U.S. Active Duty service members having served at some point...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011905080