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Discrimination and State Capacity : Evidence from WWII U.S. Army Enlistment

Qian, Nancy; Tabellini, Marco - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper investigates the empirical relationship between inclusion and state capacity, as theorized by Besley and Persson (2009). We examine the impact of racial discrimination on Black U.S. military enlistment during the onset of WWII. We find that discrimination had a large and negative...

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The Eurocorps : Toward a European Army?

Engle, Eric - 2009

This paper briefly explores the possibility and limitations of a common European foreign and security policy (CFSP). It concludes that, contrary to the recieved wisdom, a the material basis for a viable CFSP does in fact already exist due to national security policies such as the French Force...

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The labor market earnings of veterans : is military experience more or less valuable than civilian experience?

Makridis, Christos A.; Hirsch, Barry T. - In: Journal of labor research 42 (2021) 3/4, pp. 303-333

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Public and Private Options in Practice : The Military Health System

Frakes, Michael D. - 2020

Recent debates over health care reform, including in the context of the Military Health System (MHS) and Veterans …

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Columbia in the nation's service : Warner Burke and the education of U.S. Army leaders

Spain, Everett; Reed, Brian - In: Journal of applied behavioral science 56 (2020) 4, pp. 482-491

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The Effect of OEF/OIF Deployment Intensity on the Rate of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Among Active Duty Population

Shen, Yu-Chu - 2009

This study estimates the effect of deployment location and length on the risk of developing PTSD, relative to what it would be from the normal military operations. We use a random sample of activity-duty enlisted personnel serving between 2001 and 2006. We identify PTSD cases from TRICARE...

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Socioeconomic Differences in the Health of Black Union Army Soldiers

Lee, Chulhee - 2009

soldiers. Among the factors that contributed to a lower probability of contracting and dying from diseases were (1) lighter … differences in wartime health. For example, the advantages of light-skinned soldiers over dark-skinned and of enlisted men …

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Military Positions and Post-Service Occupational Mobility of Union Army Veterans, 1861-1880

Lee, Chulhee - 2006

experiences of soldiers influenced their civilian lives after the war. This paper examines how military rank and duty of Union … Army soldiers while in service affected their post-service occupational mobility. Higher ranks and non-infantry duties … were more likely to enter a white-collar occupation by 1880. The higher occupational mobility of higher-ranking soldiers is …

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Soldiers don't go mad : shell shock and accounting intransigence in the British Army 1914-18

Miley, Frances; Read, Andrew - In: The British accounting review : the journal of the … 53 (2021) 2, pp. 1-16

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The Case of a standing army army [sic] fairly and impartially stated : in answer to the late History of standing armies in England, and other pamphlets writ on that subject

1698

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