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Opportunity cost and the incidence of a draft lottery
Bingley, Paul; Lundborg, Petter; Lyk-Jensen, Stéphanie … - 2014
Military conscription implicitly taxes draftees. Those who would have volunteered at the market wage may be forced to … labor earnings of young men across the cognitive ability distribution. We find that high ability men who are induced to … serve face a 7 percent earnings penalty, whereas low ability men face none. Educational career disruption is an important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337424
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Compulsory military service and future earnings : evidence from a quasi-experiment
Asali, Muhammad - 2015
earnings of veterans. Among Druze men aged 25-34, we find an economically and statistically significant positive effect of 18 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488818
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The making of a manager : evidence from military officer training
Grönqvist, Erik; Lindqvist, Erik - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528312
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The making of a manager: evidence from military officer training
Grönqvist, Erik; Lindqvist, Erik - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010530522
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Opportunity Cost and the Incidence of a Draft Lottery
Bingley, Paul - 2014
Military conscription implicitly taxes draftees. Those who would have volunteered at the market wage may be forced to … labor earnings of young men across the cognitive ability distribution. We find that high ability men who are induced to … serve face a 7 percent earnings penalty, whereas low ability men face none. Educational career disruption is an important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055905
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Schooling and the Vietnam-Era GI Bill : Evidence from the Draft Lottery
Angrist, Joshua D.; Chen, Stacey - 2011
draft avoidance behavior. At the same time, draft lottery estimates of the earnings consequences of Vietnam-era service are … close to zero in 2000. The earnings and schooling results can be reconciled by a flattening of the age earnings profile in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014183668
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Brothers in arms : spillovers from a draft lottery
Bingley, Paul; Lundborg, Petter; Lyk-Jensen, Stéphanie … - 2017
Family members tend to have similar labor market outcomes, but measuring the contribution of behavioral spillovers is difficult. To identify spillovers between brothers, we exploit Denmark's largest random assignment - of young men to 8 months of military service - where service status of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596174
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Effects of mandatory military service on wages and other socioeconomic outcomes
Puhani, Patrick A.; Sterrenberg, Margret K. - 2021
In this paper, we estimate the effects of mandatory military service by exploiting the post-cold war decrease in the need for soldiers causing a substantial number of potential conscripts not to be drafted into the German military. Specifically, using previously unavailable information on degree...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012545078
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Effects of mandatory military service on wages and other socioeconomic outcomes
Puhani, Patrick A.; Sterrenberg, Margret K. - 2021
In this paper, we estimate the effects of mandatory military service by exploiting the post-cold war decrease in the need for soldiers causing a substantial number of potential conscripts not to be drafted into the German military. Specifically, using previously unavailable information on degree...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517860
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Effects of mandatory military service on wages and other socioeconomic outcomes
Puhani, Patrick A.; Sterrenberg, Margret K. - 2021
In this paper, we estimate the effects of mandatory military service by exploiting the post-cold war decrease in the need for soldiers causing a substantial number of potential conscripts not to be drafted into the German military. Specifically, using previously unavailable information on degree...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012507722