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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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Opening Up Military Innovation : Causal Effects of Reforms to U.S. Defense Research

T. Howell, Sabrina; Rathje, Jason; Van Reenen, John; … - 2022

There is little econometric study of how governments should procure innovation. One choice facing policymakers is whether to tightly specify the innovations they seek (a “Conventional” approach) or to allow firms to suggest ideas (an “Open” approach). We exploit a natural experiment in...

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Racial Discrimination and the Social Contract : Evidence from U.S. Army Enlistment During Wwii

Qian, Nancy; Tabellini, Marco - 2023

This paper documents several new facts about the relationship between discrimination and political exclusion and the motivation to fight in wartime. The Pearl Harbor attack triggered a sharp increase in volunteer enlistment rates of American men, the magnitude of the increase was smaller for...

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When Does Regulation Distort Costs? Lessons from Fuel Procurement in U.S. Electricity Generation

Cicala, Steve - 2014

This paper evaluates changes in fuel procurement practices by coal- and gas-fired power plants in the United States following state-level legislation that ended cost-of-service regulation of electricity generation. I find that deregulated plants substantially reduce the price paid for coal (but...

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U.S. War Costs : Two Parts Temporary, One Part Permanent

Edwards, Ryan D. - 2010

, are the most overt costs of war. They are also relatively short-lived. The costs of war borne by combatants and their … that a significant component of the public costs associated with U.S. wars are long-lived. One third to one half of the … total present value of historical war costs have been absorbed by benefits distributed over the remaining life spans of …

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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...

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Military Positions and Post-Service Occupational Mobility of Union Army Veterans, 1861-1880

Lee, Chulhee - 2006

Although the Civil War has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention, little is known about how different wartime 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...

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Socioeconomic Differences in the Health of Black Union Army Soldiers

Lee, Chulhee - 2009

This paper investigates patterns of socioeconomic difference in the wartime morbidity and mortality of black Union Army soldiers. Among the factors that contributed to a lower probability of contracting and dying from diseases were (1) lighter skin color, (2) a non-field occupation, (3)...

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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...

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