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The War at Home : Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service on Post-War Household Stability

Conley, Dalton - 2011

Prior researchers have deployed the Vietnam-era draft lottery as an instrument to estimate causal effects of military service on health and income. This research has shown that effects of veteran status on mortality and earnings that appeared shortly after the war seem to have dissipated by...

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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 Political Economy of Government Revenues in Post-Conflict Resource-Rich Africa : Liberia and Sierra Leone

Davies, Victor A. B. - 2012

exploiting natural resources in the aftermath of a civil conflict before public management institutions are developed, as … observed in Liberia and Sierra Leone. The key lesson is that resource-rich countries emerging from conflict face a difficult … call attention to the potential role of the international community in developing post-conflict countries' natural resource …

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Healing the Wounds : Learning from Sierra Leone's Post-War Institutional Reforms

Casey, Katherine - 2012

examine how several factors--including the legacy of war, ethnic diversity, decentralization and community-driven development … political development …

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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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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...

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The Political Economy of Warfare

Glaeser, Edward L. - 2007

Warfare is enormously destructive, and yet countries regularly initiate armed conflict against one another. Even more …

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Capital Destruction and Economic Growth : The Effects of Sherman's March, 1850-1920

Feigenbaum, James - 2018

Using General William Sherman's 1864–65 military march through Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina during the American Civil War, this paper studies the effect of capital destruction on medium and long-run local economic activity, and the role of financial markets in the recovery...

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Can War Foster Cooperation?

Bauer, Michal - 2018

In the past decade, nearly 20 studies have found a strong, persistent pattern in surveys and behavioral experiments from over 40 countries: individual exposure to war violence tends to increase social cooperation at the local level, including community participation and prosocial behavior. Thus...

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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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