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The Effect of Oef/Oif Deployment Intensity on the Rate of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Active Duty Population
Shen, Yu-Chu - 2010
System. Comparing to those in other duties around the world, deployment to Iraq/Afghanistan increases the odds of developing … on the service, compared to a tour under 120 days. For Army and Navy, a deployment to Iraq/Afghanistan further …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013151650
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A Review of War Costs in Iraq and Afghanistan
Edwards, Ryan D. - 2010
As of this writing, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are in their eighth and tenth years, having accrued nearly a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141284
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The Effect of Civilian Casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq
Condra, Luke N. - 2010
segments of the population through a range of mechanisms. We study the effects of civilian casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan … longer run 'propaganda' and 'revenge' effects. In Afghanistan we find strong evidence that local exposure to civilian … harm to civilians may indeed help counterinsurgent forces in Afghanistan to reduce insurgent recruitment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141349
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The War at Home : Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service on Post-War Household Stability
Conley, Dalton - 2011
Prior researchers have deployed the Vietnam-era draft lottery as an instrument to estimate causal effects of military service on health and income. This research has shown that effects of veteran status on mortality and earnings that appeared shortly after the war seem to have dissipated by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131668
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How Do Mortgage Subsidies Affect Home Ownership? Evidence from the Mid-Century Gi Bills
Fetter, Daniel - 2011
The largest 20th-century increase in U.S. home ownership occurred between 1940 and 1960, associated largely with declining age at first ownership. I shed light on the contribution of coincident government mortgage market interventions by examining home loan benefits granted under the World War...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123310
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The Political Economy of Government Revenues in Post-Conflict Resource-Rich Africa : Liberia and Sierra Leone
Davies, Victor A. B. - 2012
This paper examines the post-war strategies of Liberia and Sierra Leone to generate revenues from their natural resources. We document the challenges faced by the government of the two countries, contrasting measures taken to address these challenges as well as the outcomes. We complement the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013097782
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Healing the Wounds : Learning from Sierra Leone's Post-War Institutional Reforms
Casey, Katherine - 2012
While its recent history of civil war, chronic poverty and corrupt governance would cause many to dismiss Sierra Leone as a hopeless case, the country's economic and political performance over the last decade has defied expectations. We examine how several factors--including the legacy of war,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013100981
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The Long-Term Effects of Military Conscription on Mortality : Estimates from the Vietnam-Era Draft Lottery
Conley, Dalton - 2009
Research on the effects of Vietnam military service suggests that Vietnam veterans experienced significantly higher mortality than both non-Vietnam veterans and the civilian population at large. These results, however, may be biased by non-random selection into the military if unobserved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158538
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The Political Economy of Warfare
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2007
Warfare is enormously destructive, and yet countries regularly initiate armed conflict against one another. Even more surprisingly, wars are often quite popular with citizens who stand to gain little materially and may lose much more. This paper presents a model of warfare as the result of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778156
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Capital Destruction and Economic Growth : The Effects of Sherman's March, 1850-1920
Feigenbaum, James - 2018
Using General William Sherman's 1864–65 military march through Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina during the American Civil War, this paper studies the effect of capital destruction on medium and long-run local economic activity, and the role of financial markets in the recovery...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906306