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The Long-Term Effects of Military Conscription on Mortality : Estimates from the Vietnam-Era Draft Lottery

Conley, Dalton - 2009

mortality than both non-Vietnam veterans and the civilian population at large. These results, however, may be biased by non …. The present study generates unbiased estimates of the causal impact of Vietnam era draft eligibility on male mortality … that Vietnam-era veterans experienced significantly higher mortality than non-veterans, may be biased by non …

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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...

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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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After Johnny Came Marching Home : The Political Economy of Veterans' Benefits in the Nineteenth Century

Kang, Sungwon - 2010

This paper explores new estimates of the number of veterans and the value of veterans' benefits -- both cash benefits and land grants -- from the Revolution to 1900. Benefits, it turns out, varied substantially from war to war. The veterans of the War of 1812, in particular, received a smaller...

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Migration Responses to Conflict : Evidence from the Border of the American Civil War

Eli, Shari - 2016

migrate according to side, but former Union soldiers were more likely to leave counties with greater Confederate sympathy for …

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Did the War on Terror Ignite an Opioid Epidemic?

Cesur, Resul - 2019

Grim national statistics about the U.S. opioid crisis are increasingly well known to the American public. Far less well known is that U.S. war veterans are at ground zero of the epidemic, facing an overdose rate twice that of civilians. Post-9/11 deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq have exposed...

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Did Vietnam Veterans Get Sicker in the 1990s? The Complicated Effects of Military Service on Self-Reported Health

Angrist, Joshua D.; Chen, Stacey; Frandsen, Brigham R. - 2021

claims from Vietnam veterans, raising concerns about costs as well as health. We use the draft lottery to study the long …-term effects of Vietnam-era military service on health and work in the 2000 Census. These estimates show no significant overall … increase in non-work-related disability rates. The differential impact of Vietnam-era service on low-skill men cannot be …

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Drawn into Violence : Evidence on 'What Makes a Criminal' from the Vietnam Draft Lotteries

Lindo, Jason M. - 2012

Draft lottery number assignment during the Vietnam Era provides a natural experiment to examine the effects of military …

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Wartime Health Shocks and the Postwar Socioeconomic Status and Mortality of Union Army Veterans and Their Children

Costa, Dora L. - 2019

economy by examining the association of war wounds with the socioeconomic status and older age mortality of US CivilWar (1861 … their wealth declined by 37-46%. War wounds were correlated with children's socioeconomic and mortality outcomes in ways …

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Surviving Andersonville : The Benefits of Social Networks in Pow Camps

Costa, Dora L.; Kahn, Matthew E. - 2021

Twenty-seven percent of the Union Army prisoners captured July 1863 or later died in captivity. At Andersonville the death rate may have been as high as 40 percent. How did men survive such horrific conditions? Using two independent data sets we find that friends had a statistically significant...

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