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Igel Lau, Morten; Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - In: German economic review 5 (2004) 4, pp. 381-406

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To draft or not to draft? : efficiency, generational incidence, and political economy of military conscription

Poutvaara, Panu (contributor); Wagener, Andreas (contributor) - In: Ökonomische Dynamik in Zentraleuropa : Innovation, …, (pp. 1-28). 2006

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The dynamic cost of the draft

Igel Lau, Morten; Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - 2002

We propose a dynamic general equilibrium model with human capital accumulation to evaluate the economic consequences of compulsory services (such as military draft or social services). Our analysis identifies a so far ignored dynamic cost arising from distortions in time allocation over the...

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To draft or not to draft? : inefficiency, generational incidence, and political economy of military conscription

Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - In: European journal of political economy 23 (2007) 4, pp. 975-987

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To draft or not to draft? : Efficiency, generational incidence, and political economy of military conscription

Poutvaara, Panu (contributor); Wagener, Andreas (contributor) - 2005

We study the efficiency and distributional consequences of establishing and abolishing the draft in a dynamic model with overlapping generations, taking into account endogenous human capital formation as well as government budget constraints. The introduction of the draft initially benefits the...