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Long-term economic consequences of Vietnam-era conscription: schooling, experience and earnings
Angrist, Joshua D.; Chen, Stacey H. - 2008
these channels are likely to affect civilian earnings. New estimates of the effects of military service using Vietnam … substantial earnings losses for white Vietnam veterans in the 1970s and 1980s. The recent estimates also point to a marked … increase in post-secondary schooling that appears to be attributable to the Vietnam-era GI Bill. Seen through the lens of a …
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Drawn into violence: Evidence on what makes a criminal from the Vietnam draft lotteries
Lindo, Jason M.; Stoecker, Charles - 2010
Draft lottery number assignment during the Vietnam era provides a natural experiment to examine the effects of military …
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The impact of education on unemployment incidence and re-employment success: Evidence from the US labour market
Riddell, W. Craig; Song, Xueda - 2011
education, we make use of data on compulsory schooling laws and child labour laws as well as conscription risk in the Vietnam …
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Who gives aid to whom and when? Aid accelerations, shocks and policies
Brück, Tilman; Xu, Guo - 2011
We address the pitfalls of averaging by exploiting the longitudinal variation in aid to identify sudden and sharp increases in aid flows. Focusing on specific events, we test if aid accelerations correspond to policies and shocks in the recipient country. For a large sample of 145 recipient...
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Die Interessenkonstellation, die zum Krieg führte: eine situationsstrukturelle Interpretation
Zürn, Michael - In: Analysen zum Golf-Krieg, (pp. 29-33). 1991
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Gerechter Krieg? Normative Überlegungen zum Golfkrieg: Vorbemerkungen zu einer notwendigen Diskussion
Zürn, Michael - In: Analysen zum Golf-Krieg, (pp. 1-4). 1991
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Clausewitz on Auctions
Häfner, Samuel - 2012
A multi-stage model on the course of war is presented: Individual battles are modeled as private value all-pay auctions with asymmetric combatants of two opposing teams. These auctions are placed within a multi-stage framework with a tug-of-war structure. Such framing provides a microfounded...
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Is a lack of a credible commitment a credible explanation for war?
Wittman, Donald - 2007
This paper studies the association between the current account and real estate valuation across countries, subject to data availability [43 countries, of which 25 are OECD], during 1990 - 2005. We find robust and strong positive association between current account deficits and the appreciation...
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Changing concepts of risk, security and war
Joenniemi, Pertti; Søby Kristensen, Kristian; Lund … - 2007
It is commonplace to argue speed as the deflning element in modern day warfare. Whether one looks to the manuals and concepts of the US military or to critical thinkers like Virilio the analvsis is the same. Speed and time, not mass and space, are the essentials of warfare. This is the case in...
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Privatisation of conflict, security and war
Møller, Bjørn - 2005
The paper assesses the general trend towards privatisation, in the developed as well as the developing world, where even “high politics” is increasingly performed by, or outsourced to, non-state actors. This is both the case for foreign and security politics, including war, where the use by...
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