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 …

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 …

examine the roles of ethnicity and religion in conflict and war. Based on one theory, the Ottoman conquests were driven by the … Gaza ideology according to which the empire's central motivation was provided by a spirit of Holy War in the name of Islam …

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 …

We argue that one major cause of the U.S. postwar baby boom was the increased demand for female labor during World War … the one experienced by American women during wartime mobilization. For the war generation, the shock leads to a persistent … war face increased labor-market competition, which impels them to exit the labor market and start having children earlier …

While descriptive evidence suggests that deployment in the Global War on Terrorism is associated with adverse mental …