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 … Surveys that spans 1959-2008. We find that the percent of civilian military-age men and women who satisfy current military …

mixed-gender productivity, gender roles and gender identity. Our context is the military in Norway, where we randomly …' satisfaction with boot camp or their plans to continue in the military. These findings provide evidence that even in a highly …

would be from the normal military operations. We use a random sample of activity-duty enlisted personnel serving between …

experiences of soldiers influenced their civilian lives after the war. This paper examines how military rank and duty of Union … to move up to a white-collar job by 1880. Similarly, unskilled recruits who had served on white-collar military duties … likely to have resulted from disparate human capital accumulations offered by their military positions rather than from their …

predictor of success in the military. This contrasts with the increasing quality of enlisted personnel since 1973 when …

the military, but that the effect of the lottery on enlistment is stronger for whites than for nonwhites. Minimum Chi …

A relatively obscure defense procurement policy establishes a large subsidy to private military R&D investment. On the …

Recent debates over health care reform, including in the context of the Military Health System (MHS) and Veterans … military bases. We find evidence that off-base care is associated with slightly greater resource intensity, but also notably …

the relatively "egalitarian" (little pay for performance) structure of military compensation, I find that those who do … better on tests of proficiency in their military occupation are more likely to re-enlist than those who do worse, and this …