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Going to War and Going to College : Did World War II and the G.I. Bill Increase Educational Attainment for Returning Veterans?
Bound, John - 1999
The end of World War II brought a flood of returning veterans to America's colleges and universities. Yet, despite … evidence about the question of whether military service, combined with the availability of post-war educational benefits, led … structure of the draft during the World War II period and the changing manpower requirements in the armed forces to address the …
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A Minimalist Model for the Ruble During the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
Lorenzoni, Guido; Werning, Iván - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This note isolates an overlooked economic force for the Ruble to appreciate in response to international sanctions limiting exports to Russia. The economic intuition is that when Russians are unable to buy the mix of foreign goods they wish, then foreign goods becomes less attractive, increasing...
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On Wars, Sanctions and Sovereign Default
Bianchi, Javier; Sosa Padilla, César - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper explores the role of restrictions on the use of international reserves as economic sanctions. We develop a simple model of the strategic game between a sanctioning (creditor) country and a sanctioned (debtor) country. We show how the sanctioning country should impose restrictions...
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Sanctions and the Exchange Rate
Itskhoki, Oleg; Mukhin, Dmitry - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We show that the exchange rate may appreciate or depreciate depending on the specific mix of sanctions imposed, even if the underlying equilibrium allocation is the same. Sanctions that limit a country's imports tend to appreciate the country's exchange rate, while sanctions that limit exports...
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Stock Volatility and the War Puzzle
Cortes, Gustavo Silva; Vossmeyer, Angela; Weidenmier, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
and II, which would seemingly increase uncertainty. In a seminal paper, Schwert (1989) identified the "war puzzle" as one …
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Demand Shocks, Procurement Policies, and the Nature of Medical Innovation : Evidence from Wartime Prosthetic Device Patents
Clemens, Jeffrey - 2020
our analysis of these new data, we find that the relatively stingy, fixed-price contracts of the Civil War era led … inventors to focus broadly on reducing costs, while the less cost-conscious procurement contracts of World War I did not. We …' preferences across wars. Finally, we find that the Civil War and World War I procurement shocks led to substantial increases in …
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The Intergenerational Effects of a Large Wealth Shock : White Southerners After the Civil War
Ager, Philipp - 2019
The nullification of slave wealth after the U.S. Civil War (1861-65) was one of the largest episodes of wealth … wealth by 1870, relative to households that had been equally wealthy before the war. Yet, the sons of former slaveholders …
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Trade Wars, Currency Wars
Auray, Stéphane - 2020
For most of the post WWII period, until recently, trade protectionism followed a downward trend, and was formulated in multilateral or bilateral agreements between countries. Recently however, there hasbeen a sharp shift towards unilateral, discretionary trade policy focused on short term...
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Debt and Taxes in Eight U.S. Wars and Two Insurrections
Hall, George J. - 2020
From decompositions of U.S. federal fiscal accounts from 1790 to 1988, we describe differences and patterns in how expenditure surges were financed during 8 wars between 1812 and 1975. We also study two insurrections. We use two benchmark theories of optimal taxation and borrowing to frame a...
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Post-9/11 War Deployments Increased Crime among Veterans
Cesur, Resul - 2020
Several high-profile news stories have linked post-September 11 (9/11) combat service to violent crime among veterans. Nevertheless, there is scant causal evidence for this claim. We exploit the administrative procedures by which U.S. Armed Forces senior commanders conditionally randomly assign...
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