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Why Do World War Ii Veterans Earn More than Nonveterans?
Angrist, Joshua D.; Krueger, Alan B. - 2021
Veterans of World War II are widely believed to earn more than nonveterans of the same age. Theoretical justifications for the World War II veteran premium include the subsidization of education and training, and preference for veterans in hiring. In this paper, we propose and test an...
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Combat Exposure and Migraine Headache : Evidence from Exogenous Deployment Assignment
Cesur, Resul - 2012
Migraine headache is a growing problem for U.S. servicemen deployed in the Global War on Terrorism and has been linked to substantial negative socioeconomic consequences. However, there has been no comprehensive examination of the relationship between combat exposure and migraine headache or its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111205
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Victims' state : war and welfare in Austria, 1868-1925
Hsia, Ke-Chin - 2022
responded to the needs of soldiers and their families when they faced adverse consequences of soldiering. It surveys the … World War, specifically on the provision of care and welfare for disabled soldiers and dead soldiers' widows and orphans … global conflict. At the end of the war, it was estimated that 1.2 million soldiers, out of 8 million men and 100,000 women …
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Federal policy and the rise in disability enrollment : evidence for the veterans affairs' disability compensation program
Duggan, Mark G.; Rosenheck, Robert; Singleton, Perry - In: The journal of law & economics 53 (2010) 2, pp. 379-398
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Combat exposure and migraine headache : evidence from exogenous deployment assignment
Cesur, Resul; Sabia, Joseph J.; Tekin, Erdal - 2012
Migraine headache is a growing problem for U.S. servicemen deployed in the Global War on Terrorism and has been linked to substantial negative socioeconomic consequences. However, there has been no comprehensive examination of the relationship between combat exposure and migraine headache or its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530184
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Federal policy and the rise in disability enrollment : evidence for the VA's disability compensation program
Duggan, Mark G.; Rosenheck, Robert; Singleton, Perry - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003339825
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Compensating Wounded Warriors : An Analysis of Injury, Labor Market Earnings, and Disability Compensation Among Veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars
Heaton, Paul - 2012
This comprehensive, quantitative assessment of how injury sustained by service members deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan affects their subsequent labor market earnings also explores the extent to which retirement and disability payments compensate for any resulting earnings losses. The analysis...
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Wartime health shocks and the postwar socioeconomic status and mortality of union army veterans and their children
Costa, Dora L.; Yetter, Noelle; DeSomer, Heather - In: Journal of health economics 70 (2020), pp. 1-16
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Health Shocks of the Father and Longevity of the Children's Children
Costa, Dora L. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Whether and how a paternal health shock cascades across multiple generations to affect descendant health is understudied even though a link between ancestral living conditions and descendant health may constitute an important source of differences in the stock of health capital across families...
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