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Evaluating the Labor Market Performance of Veterans Using a Matched Comparison Group Design

Mehay, Stephen L.; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2003

A key concern in estimating the effect of military service on civilian earnings is bias from unmeasured differences between military veterans and nonveterans. The effects of activeduty service are estimated using the 1986 and 1992 Reserve Components Surveys, which permit a matched comparison...

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The Sexual Harassment of Female Active-Duty Personnel: Effects on Job Satisfaction and Intentions to Remain in the Military

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2001

This paper examines the relationship between sexual harassment and the job satisfaction and intended turnover of active-duty women in the U.S. military using unique data from a survey of the incidence of unwanted gender-related behavior conducted by the U.S. Department of Defense. Overall, 70.9...

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The effect of pensions on longevity: evidence from Union Army veterans

Salm, Martin - 2007

This study uses changes in pension laws for Union Army veterans as a natural experiment to estimate the causal effect of pensions on longevity, and to examine potential pathways underlying such a relationship. We examine the effects of the pension laws of 1907 and 1912, which granted old-age...

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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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Military draft and economic growth in OECD countries

Keller, Katarina; Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - 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...

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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...

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Combat exposure and migraine headache: Evidence from exogenous deployment assignment

Cesur, Resul; Sabia, Joseph J.; Tekin, Erdal - 2012

Migraine headache is a growing problem for U.S. servicemen deployed in the Global War on Terrorism and has been linked to substantial negative socioeconomic consequences. However, there has been no comprehensive examination of the relationship between combat exposure and migraine headache or its...

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Honest on mondays: Honesty and the temporal distance between decisions and payoffs

Ruffle, Bradley J.; Tobol, Yossi - 2013

427 Israeli soldiers fulfilling their mandatory military service rolled a six-sided die in private and reported the … from the army base on Thursday afternoon. Soldiers who participated on Sunday (the first work day of the week) are …

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

Bauer, Michal; Fiala, Nathan; Levely, Ian - 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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Screening for Honesty

Ruffle, Bradley; Tobol, Yossi - 2014

We report the results of a field experiment on honesty conducted on 427 Israeli soldiers fulfilling their mandatory …

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