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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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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 background differences between veterans and non-veterans affect mortality directly …
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Nation-Building, Nationalism and Wars
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2017
The increase in army size observed in early modern times changed the way states conducted wars. Starting in the late 18th century, states switched from mercenaries to a mass army by conscription. In order for the population to accept to fight and endure war, the government elites began to...
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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
The veterans disability compensation (VDC) program, which provides a monthly stipend to disabled veterans, is the third … claims from Vietnam veterans, raising concerns about costs as well as health. We use the draft lottery to study the long …
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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 service on crime. Using exact dates of birth for inmates in state and federal prisons in 1979, 1986, and 1991, we find that draft eligibility increases incarceration for...
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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
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 …
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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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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 …
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