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How Do Mortgage Subsidies Affect Home Ownership? Evidence from the Mid-Century Gi Bills
Fetter, Daniel - 2011
examining home loan benefits granted under the World War II and Korean War GI Bills. The impact of veterans' housing benefits on … home ownership is positive for young men, and declines with age. Veterans' benefits increased aggregate home ownership …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123310
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Overseas Deployment, Combat Exposure, and Well-Being in the 2010 National Survey of Veterans
Edwards, Ryan D. - 2012
Survey of Veterans, which asked a broad cross section of living veteran cohorts about deployment to OEF/OIF and combat … returning OEF/OIF veterans may be relatively small, but the effects of combat exposure on self-reported health and other …. These results are consistent with a veterans compensation system that replaces lost earnings but does not necessarily …
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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
The decline in the physical stature of the American population for more than a generation beginning with the birth cohorts of the early 1830s was brought about by a diminution in nutritional intake in spite of robust growth in average incomes. This occurred at the onset of modern economic growth...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013151650
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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 background differences between veterans and non-veterans affect mortality directly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158538
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Military Positions and Post-Service Occupational Mobility of Union Army Veterans, 1861-1880
Lee, Chulhee - 2006
Although the Civil War has attracted a great deal of scholarly attention, little is known about how different wartime 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779325
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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 a regression discontinuity design. The wealth of novel data collected by the military on cognitive ability, psychological health, and family history allows us to explore how...
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955943
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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
-5) veterans and of their adult children. Younger veterans who had been severely wounded in the war left the farm sector, becoming …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012893993