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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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Overseas Deployment, Combat Exposure, and Well-Being in the 2010 National Survey of Veterans
Edwards, Ryan D. - 2012
Recent military engagements in Iraq (OIF) and Afghanistan (OEF) raise questions about the effects on service members of overseas deployment, which can include service in a combat or war zone, exposure to casualties, or both. The 2010 National Survey of Veterans, which asked a broad cross section...
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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 Decline in the Nutritional Status of the U.S. Antebellum Population at the Onset of Modern Economic Growth
Komlos, John - 2016
proportion of shorter men to volunteer for military service thereby driving down the mean height of soldiers even if the height … can be no doubt at all that the decline in the height of soldiers beginning with the birth cohorts of the early 1830s is …
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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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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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The Impact of Alcohol on Mental Health, Physical Fitness, and Job Performance
Bacolod, Marigee - 2017
We study the impact of legal access to alcohol on a range of behavioral and physical outcomes of U.S. Army soldiers in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953503
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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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Wartime Health Shocks and the Postwar Socioeconomic Status and Mortality of Union Army Veterans and Their Children
Costa, Dora L. - 2019
We investigate when and how health shocks reverberate across the life cycle and down to descendants in a manual labor economy by examining the association of war wounds with the socioeconomic status and older age mortality of US CivilWar (1861-5) veterans and of their adult children. Younger...
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