service on health and income. This research has shown that effects of veteran status on mortality and earnings that appeared …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 …

-term effect of Vietnam-era military service on health …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 …

novel proxy for stress: risk of military induction during the Vietnam War. We estimate that a 10 percentage point (2 …A substantial literature has examined the impact of stress during early childhood on later-life health. This paper … contributes to that literature by examining the later-life health impact of stress during adolescence and early adulthood, using a …

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

development of smoking behaviors. The Vietnam-era draft lottery offers a unique opportunity to investigate whether genetic … age. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), we interact a genetic risk score for smoking initiation with …-risk veterans who attended college after the war, indicating post-service schooling gains from veterans' use of the GI Bill may have …

claims from Vietnam veterans, raising concerns about costs as well as health. We use the draft lottery to study the long …-term effects of Vietnam-era military service on health and work in the 2000 Census. These estimates show no significant overall … increase in non-work-related disability rates. The differential impact of Vietnam-era service on low-skill men cannot be …

fight and endure war, the government elites began to provide public goods, reduced rent extraction and adopted policies to …

We study whether war service by one generation affects service by the next generation in later wars, in the context of … service implies that how close to age 21 an individual's father happened to be at a time of war is a key determinant of the … father's likelihood of participation. We find that a father's war service experience has a positive and significant effect on …

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 …. The present study generates unbiased estimates of the causal impact of Vietnam era draft eligibility on male mortality …

. War-widow pensions, expansion of the franchise, and subsidized higher education are all examples of rights and benefits … induction in the Vietnam-Era Selective Service Lotteries (VSSL) appear disproportionately in the population of non …