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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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The Effect of Oef/Oif Deployment Intensity on the Rate of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Active Duty Population
Shen, Yu-Chu - 2010
This study estimates the effect of deployment location and length on the risk of developing PTSD, relative to what it would be from the normal military operations. We use a random sample of activity-duty enlisted personnel serving between 2001 and 2006. We identify PTSD cases from TRICARE...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013151650
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Military Positions and Post-Service Occupational Mobility of Union Army Veterans, 1861-1880
Lee, Chulhee - 2006
experiences of soldiers influenced their civilian lives after the war. This paper examines how military rank and duty of Union … Army soldiers while in service affected their post-service occupational mobility. Higher ranks and non-infantry duties … were more likely to enter a white-collar occupation by 1880. The higher occupational mobility of higher-ranking soldiers is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779325
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Socioeconomic Differences in the Health of Black Union Army Soldiers
Lee, Chulhee - 2009
soldiers. Among the factors that contributed to a lower probability of contracting and dying from diseases were (1) lighter … differences in wartime health. For example, the advantages of light-skinned soldiers over dark-skinned and of enlisted men …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764831
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Military Officer Quality in the All-Volunteer Force
Cancian, Matthew - 2015
We show a statistically significant and quantitatively meaningful decline in the intelligence of Marine Officers from 1980 to 2014 as measured by their scores on the General Classification Test (GCT) which has been shown to be a good predictor of success in the military. This contrasts with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019106
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Public and Private Options in Practice : The Military Health System
Frakes, Michael; Gruber, Jonathan; Justicz, Timothy - 2021
Recent debates over health care reform, including in the context of the Military Health System (MHS) and Veterans Health Administration, highlight the dispute between public and private provision of health care services. Using novel data on childbirth claims from the MHS and drawing on the...
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The Decline in the Nutritional Status of the U.S. Antebellum Population at the Onset of Modern Economic Growth
Komlos, John - 2016
proportion of shorter men to volunteer for military service thereby driving down the mean height of soldiers even if the height … can be no doubt at all that the decline in the height of soldiers beginning with the birth cohorts of the early 1830s is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001784
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Women's Income and Marriage Markets in the United States : Evidence from the Civil War Pension
Salisbury, Laura - 2014
Under the Civil War pension act of 1862, the widow of a Union Army soldier was entitled to a pension if her husband died as a direct result of his military service; however, she lost her right to the pension if she remarried. I analyze the effect this had on the rate of remarriage among these...
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Making Big Changes : 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918242
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Unfit for Service : The Implications of Rising Obesity for U.S. Military Recruitment
Cawley, John - 2010
Excess body weight or body fat hinders performance of military duties. As a result, the U.S. military has weight-for-height and percent body fat standards for enlistment. This paper estimates the number and percent of military-age civilians who meet, and do not meet, the current active duty...
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