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Do guns displace books? : the impact of compulsory military service on educational attainment
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; … - 2011
regulations associated with the introduction of conscription in Germany in 1956. We estimate conscription to increase the … Wehrpflicht in Deutschland im Jahre 1956 in einem Regression-Discontinuity-Design aus. Unsere Schätzergebnisse zeigen, dass … Wehrdienst die Wahrscheinlichkeit eines Universitätsabschlusses erhöht. …
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Do guns displace books? : the impact of compulsory military service on educational attainment
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; … - 2011
regulations associated with the introduction of conscription in Germany in 1956. We estimate conscription to increase the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307337
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Do Guns Displace Books? The Impact of Compulsory Military Service on Educational Attainment
Bauer, Thomas K. - 2011
regulations associated with the introduction of conscription in Germany in 1956. We estimate conscription to increase the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123921
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Chapter 15 Drinking from the Fountain of Knowledge: Student Incentive to Study and Learn – Externalities, Information Problems and Peer Pressure
Bishop, John - In: Handbook of the economics of education : volume 2, (pp. 909-944). 2006
Students face four decision margins: (a) How many years to spend in school, (b) What to study, (c) How much effort to devote to learning per year and (d) Whether to disrupt or assist the learning of classmates. The thousands of studies that have applied human capital theory to the first two...
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Do guns displace books? : the impact of compulsory military service on educational attainment
Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; … - In: Economics letters 124 (2014) 3, pp. 513-515
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Military conscription and university enrolment : evidence from Italy
Di Pietro, Giorgio - 2009
Given that a growing number of countries have abolished or are considering the abolition of military conscription, understanding the consequences of this measure is of increased importance. In this paper we study the effect of the suppression of compulsory military service on university...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003860425
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Military Conscription and University Enrolment : Evidence from Italy
Pietro, Giorgio Di - 2009
Given that a growing number of countries have abolished or are considering the abolition of military conscription, understanding the consequences of this measure is of increased importance. In this paper we study the effect of the suppression of compulsory military service on university...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158680
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Long-Term Economic Consequences of Vietnam-Era Conscription : Schooling, Experience and Earnings
Angrist, Joshua D.; Chen, Stacey - 2021
Military service reduces civilian labor market experience but subsidizes higher education through the GI Bill. Both of these channels are likely to affect civilian earnings. New estimates of the effects of military service using Vietnam-era draft-lottery instruments show post-service earnings...
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The long-term effects of military conscription on educational attainment and wages
Hubers, Frank; Webbink, Herman Dinand - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-16
This study investigates the long-term effects of peace-time military conscription on educational attainment and earnings by exploiting a policy change that exempted a complete birth cohort from military service. We find that compulsory military service decreases the proportion of Dutch...
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Conscription and the Returns to Education : Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity
Mouganie, Pierre - 2015
In 1997, the French government put into effect a law that permanently exempted young French male citizens born after Jan 1, 1979 from mandatory military service while still requiring those born before that cutoff date to serve. This paper uses a regression discontinuity design to identify the...
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