from the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) and Social Security Administration (SSA) to construct a panel of all U … types. Our estimates indicate that overall U.S. military personnel who deployed in an individual year to Iraq or Afghanistan … had a 48 per 100,000 higher probability of death than non-deployed military personnel who remained stateside. The …

We introduce three variations of the Hirshleifer-Skaperdas conflict game to study experimentally the effects of post-conflict … altogether, often after substantial initial conflict. To attain peace, players must first engage in costly signaling by making …

context of the Gaza Strip, where Israel's blockade and military interventions, purportedly intended to erode support for Hamas … little evidence to suggest that Israeli security policies towards the Gaza Strip have any substantial lasting effect on Gazan … therefore call into question the logic of Israel's continued security policies towards Gaza, while also raising the possibility …

tighter security; we find no evidence of a change in the number of armed forces (military and civil personnel) in the migrant …

To address security concerns, governments often implement trade barriers and restrictions on the movement of goods and …

success in modern war. Based on a reduced form approach we consider key elements of military theory as factors in the … production of combat success, formalized in a military production function. The paper focuses on the relationship of material and …

The effects of military service have been studied for decades, but surprisingly few studies have estimated the effects … population. Over 90% of Australian males born in the early 1920s served in the military during WW2. Almost none of those born in …

Military service is an important vehicle through which young Americans invest in their human capital. Using internal … military data, we show that county-level exposure to U.S. combat casualties during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars decreased the …