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 …

Scrutiny at the Canadian border to heighten security and simultaneously reduce type one (false positives) and type two … develops a pedigree system for Canadian border security which simultaneously reduces both type I and II errors while avoiding …

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 investigate how nondemocratic regimes use the military and how this can lead to the emergence of military … problem; a strong military may not simply work as an agent of the elite but may turn against them in order to create a regime … nondemocratic regimes and in particular, necessitates high wages and policy concessions to the military. When these concessions are …

the case of Nigeria. Following the sudden death of military general Sanni Abacha, Nigeria moved to democracy in 1999 …, ending an over 15 years stretch of military rule. This move was followed by significant institutional and economic reforms …

strong army. In weakly-institutionalized polities this opens the way for excessive influence or coups by the military … commitment to not reforming the military in the future. …

Draft lottery number assignment during the Vietnam era provides a natural experiment to examine the effects of military … veteran status, these estimates imply that military service increases the probability of incarceration for a violent crime by …

examining a previously underappreciated consequence of the rise in obesity in the United States: challenges for military … recruitment. Specifically, this paper estimates the percent of the U.S. military-age population that meets, and does not meet … military-age adults ineligible for enlistment because they are overweight and overfat doubled for men and tripled for women …

individual commitment across citizens to defend democracy against a potential military coup, and it is an endogenous state …