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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
To estimate the causal effect of conscription on the probability to obtain a university degree, we use a regression …-discontinuity design associated with the introduction of conscription in Germany. There is evidence that conscription increased the …
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Conscription and the returns to education: Evidence from a regression discontinuity
mouganie, pierre - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
uses a regression discontinuity design to identify the effect of peacetime conscription on education and labor market … outcomes. Results indicate that conscription eligibility induces a significant increase in years of education, which is … consistent with conscription avoidance behavior. However, this increased education does not result in either an increase in …
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The making of a manager: evidence from military officer training
Grönqvist, Erik; Lindqvist, Erik - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2015
We show that officer training during the Swedish military service has a strong positive effect on the probability to attain a managerial position later in life. The most intense type of officer training increases the probability of becoming a civilian manager by about 5 percentage points, or 75...
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The Making of a Manager: Evidence from Military Officer Training
Grönqvist, Erik; Lindqvist, Erik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015
We show that officer training during the Swedish military service has a strong positive effect on the probability to attain a managerial position later in life. The most intense type of officer training increases the probability of becoming a civilian manager by about 5 percentage points, or 75...
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Opportunity Cost and the Incidence of a Draft Lottery
Bingley, Paul; Lundborg, Petter; Vincent Lyk-Jensen, … - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2014
Military conscription implicitly taxes draftees. Those who would have volunteered at the market wage may be forced to …
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Opportunity Cost and the Incidence of a Draft Lottery
Bingley, Paul; Lundborg, Petter; Vincent Lyk-Jensen, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Military conscription implicitly taxes draftees. Those who would have volunteered at the market wage may be forced to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010756237
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Human capital, basic research, and applied research: Three dimensions of human knowledge and their differential growth effects
Prettner, Klaus; Werner, Katharina - Center for European, Governance and Economic … - 2014
We analyze the differential growth effects of basic research, applied research, and embodied human capital accumulation in an R&D-based growth model with endogenous fertility and endogenous education. In line with the empirical evidence, our model allows for i) a negative association between...
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Equilibrium effects of public goods: The impact of community water fluoridation on dentists
Ho, Kate; Neidell, Matthew - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009
In this paper we consider how the dental industry responded to the addition of fluoride to public drinking water. We take advantage of the staggered introduction of fluoridation throughout the country to analyze the changes in numbers of within-county dentists relative to physicians in the years...
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Economic Conditions and the Quality of Suicide Terrorism
Benmelech, Efraim; Klor, Esteban F.; Berrebi, Claude - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
We analyze the link between economic conditions and the quality of suicide terrorism. While the existing empirical literature shows that poverty and economic conditions are not correlated with the quantity of terror, theory predicts that poverty and poor economic conditions may affect the...
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On private incentives to acquire household production skills
Vagstad, Steinar - In: Journal of Population Economics 14 (2001) 2, pp. 301-312
In non-cooperative family models, being good at contributing to family public goods like household production may reduce one's utility, since it tends to crowd out contributions from one's spouse. Similar effects also arise in cooperative models with non-cooperative threat point: improved...
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