interaction between the scarcity of resources and the incentives for war in the presence of limited commitment is at the center of … our theory. We show that a key parameter determining the incentives for war is the elasticity of demand. Our first result … identifies a novel externality that can precipitate war: price-taking firms fail to internalize the impact of their extraction on …

Prior researchers have deployed the Vietnam-era draft lottery as an instrument to estimate causal effects of military … shortly after the war seem to have dissipated by 2000. While these are important outcomes to economists, by focusing on them …: household and family life. In the present study we use the same IV approach to model the causal impact of Vietnam- era military …

novel proxy for stress: risk of military induction during the Vietnam War. We estimate that a 10 percentage point (2 … the war, and are not present for women or men who did serve. These findings add to the evidence on the lasting … consequences of stress, and also indicate that induction risk during Vietnam may, in certain contexts, be an invalid instrument for …

This paper uses the 2000 Census 1-in-6 sample to look at the long-term impact of Vietnam-era military service … point to a marked increase in schooling that appears to be attributable to the Vietnam-era GI Bill. The net wage effects …-term effect of Vietnam-era military service on health …

This study uses discontinuities in U.S. strategies employed during the Vietnam War to estimate their causal impacts. It …

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

I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. We test for agency problems by comparing the voting behavior of …Why do wars occur? We exploit a natural experiment to test the longstanding hypothesis that leaders declare war because …,210 children of 3,693 U.S. legislators who served in Congress during the four conscription-era wars of the 20th century: World War …

powers, the government was able to fund the war by borrowing and levying taxes. In major wars, however, there came a point …