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Drawn into Violence : Evidence on 'What Makes a Criminal' from the Vietnam Draft Lotteries

Lindo, Jason M. - 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...

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Deployments, Combat Exposure, and Crime

Anderson, D. Mark - 2013

. We conclude that soldiers returning from combat do not represent a special threat to public safety …

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Does Integration Change Gender Attitudes? The Effect of Randomly Assigning Women to Traditionally Male Teams

Dahl, Gordon B. - 2018

We examine whether exposure of men to women in a traditionally male-dominated environment can change attitudes about mixed-gender productivity, gender roles and gender identity. Our context is the military in Norway, where we randomly assigned female recruits to some squads but not others during...

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Estimating the Veteran Effect with Endogenous Schooling When Instruments are Potentially Weak

Chaudhuri, Saraswata - 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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Veteran Educators or For-Profiteers? Tuition Responses to Changes in the Post 9/11 Gi Bill

Baird, Matthew - 2020

In 2010, Congress reauthorized the Post-9/11 GI Bill by changing reimbursement rates from widely-varying by-state maximums to a nationwide limit. This policy created exogenous variation in the changes in reimbursement rates in direction and magnitude for veterans at private universities. We...

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Health, Height and the Household at the Turn of the 20th Century

Bailey, Roy E. - 2014

We examine the health and height of men born in England and Wales in the 1890s who enlisted in the army at the time of the First World War. We take a sample of the army service records and use this information to find the recruits as children in the 1901 census. Econometric results indicate that...

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Trusting Former Rebels : An Experimental Approach to Understanding Reintegration after Civil War

Bauer, Michal - 2014

The stability of many post-conflict societies rests on the successful reintegration of former soldiers. We examine … social capital of former soldiers in Northern Uganda, where the Lord's Resistance Army forcibly recruited tens of thousands … of youth during a recent brutal conflict. We use a set of interlocked experiments to study behavior of ex-soldiers …

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Making Big Decisions : The Impact of Moves on Marriage Among U.S. Army Personnel

Carter, Susan - 2018

We use exogenously determined, long-distance relocations of U.S. Army soldiers to investigate the impact of moving on …

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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 A.; 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 a restricted version of the National Health Interview Survey 1974-2013 and employing the draft lotteries as an instrumental variable (IV). We start by assessing whether the...

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Racial and Ethnic Discrimination in Local Consumer Markets : Exploiting the Army's Procedures for Matching Personnel to Duty Locations

Antecol, Heather - 2011

commercial transactions. Overall, one in ten soldiers report that they or their families have experienced racial discrimination … community's demographic profile with white and Asian soldiers feeling more unwelcome in local businesses as the local population …

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