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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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Can Compulsory Military Service Increase Civilian Wages? Evidence from the Peacetime Draft in Portugal
Card, David - 2011
Although military conscription was widespread during most of the past century, credible evidence on the effects of … mandatory service is limited. We provide new evidence on the long-term effects of peacetime conscription, using longitudinal … data for Portuguese men born in 1967. These men were inducted at a relatively late age (21), allowing us to use pre-conscription …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117205
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158538
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Nation-Building, Nationalism and Wars
Alesina, Alberto F. - 2017
th century, states switched from mercenaries to a mass army by conscription. In order for the population to accept to …
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The Effect of Stress on Later-Life Health : Evidence from the Vietnam Draft
Cawley, John - 2017
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 novel proxy for stress: risk of military induction...
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Long-Term Consequences of Vietnam-Era Conscription : Schooling, Experience, and Earnings
Angrist, Joshua D. - 2010
This paper uses the 2000 Census 1-in-6 sample to look at the long-term impact of Vietnam-era military service. Instrumental Variables estimates using draft-lottery instruments show post-service earnings losses close to zero in 2000, in contrast with earlier results showing substantial earnings...
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Military Service and Public Sector Employment : Birthdates Called in the Vietnam Draft Lotteries Appear Excessively in the Population of Civilian U.S. Federal Personnel Records
Johnson, Tim - 2019
Since at least T.H. Marshall, scholars have recognized military service as a form of sacrifice that warrants compensation from the state. Indeed, some see the very genesis of the modern welfare state as compensation for wartime sacrifice. War-widow pensions, expansion of the franchise, and...
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Military Officer Quality in the All-Volunteer Force
Cancian, Matthew - 2015
conscription ended. We argue that the source of this decline is the greater number of young Americans in college since Marine …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019106
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The Intergenerational Transmission of War
Campante, Filipe R. - 2015
We study whether war service by one generation affects service by the next generation in later wars, in the context of the major US theaters of the 20th century. To identify a causal effect, we exploit the fact that general suitability for service implies that how close to age 21 an individual's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019107
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The Long-Term Consequences of Vietnam-Era Conscription and Genotype on Smoking Behavior and Health
Schmitz, Lauren - 2015
Research is needed to understand the extent to which environmental factors mediate links between genetic risk and the development of smoking behaviors. The Vietnam-era draft lottery offers a unique opportunity to investigate whether genetic susceptibility to smoking is influenced by risky...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019496