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Sinking budgets and ballooning prices: Recent developments connected to military spending

Cusack, Thomas R. - 2006

Military spending in the West generally declined after the Cold War. Given the economic pressures that many of these states confronted, they can be said to have experienced a fortuitous conjunction of lessening security demands with stable if not rising pressures to allocate more resources to...

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Slaves or Mercenaries: Milton Friedman and the Institution of the All-Volunteer Military

Singleton, John D. - 2014

the national debate over conscription, which culminated in Friedman's service on the Gates Commission. Friedman's argument …

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To Draft or Not to Draft? Efficiency, Generational Incidence, and Political Economy of Military Conscription

Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - 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...

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Evaluating the Labor-Market Effects of Compulsory Military Service - A Regression-Discontinuity Approach

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We identify the causal effect of compulsory military service on conscripts' subsequent labor-market outcomes by exploiting the regression-discontinuity design of the military draft in Germany during the 1950s. Unbiased estimates of military service on lifetime earnings, wages, and employment are...

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Evaluating the labour-market effects of compulsory military service

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; … - 2009

We identify the causal effect of compulsory military service on conscripts' subse-quent labour-market outcomes by exploiting the regression-discontinuity design of the military draft in Germany during the 1950s. Unbiased estimates of military ser-vice on lifetime earnings, wages, and employment...

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Evaluating the labor-market effects of compulsory military service

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; … - 2009

We identify the causal effect of compulsory military service on conscripts' subsequent labor-market outcomes by exploiting the regression-discontinuity design of the military draft in Germany during the 1950s. Unbiased estimates of the effect of military service on lifetime earnings, wages, and...

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Does military draft discourage enrollment in higher education? Evidence from OECD countries

Keller, Katarina; Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - 2009

existence of conscription, albeit usually at low statistical significance. However, the intensity of its enforcement, measured …

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Compulsory Military Service in Germany Revisited

Paloyo, Alfredo R. - 2010

restricting conscription only to men born on or after July 1, 1937, difference-in-differences estimates of the effect of … conscription on average daily wages can be computed using cohorts of women as a comparison group. The results indicate that … conscription had no significant impact on a draftee's labor-market performance, validating an earlier result using an alternative …

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Does military draft discourage enrollment in higher education? : evidence from OECD countries

Keller, Katarina; Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - 2009

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