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Effects of mandatory military service on wages and other socioeconomic outcomes

Puhani, Patrick A.; Sterrenberg, Margret K. - 2021

In this paper, we estimate the effects of mandatory military service by exploiting the post-cold war decrease in the need for soldiers causing a substantial number of potential conscripts not to be drafted into the German military. Specifically, using previously unavailable information on degree...

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Do guns displace books? The impact of compulsory military service on educational attainment

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; … - In: Economics Letters 124 (2014) 3, pp. 513-515

To estimate the causal effect of conscription on the probability to obtain a university degree, we use a regression …-discontinuity design associated with the introduction of conscription in Germany. There is evidence that conscription increased the …

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Conscription and the returns to education: Evidence from a regression discontinuity

mouganie, pierre - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

uses a regression discontinuity design to identify the effect of peacetime conscription on education and labor market … outcomes. Results indicate that conscription eligibility induces a significant increase in years of education, which is … consistent with conscription avoidance behavior. However, this increased education does not result in either an increase in …

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The making of a manager: evidence from military officer training

Grönqvist, Erik; Lindqvist, Erik - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2015

We show that officer training during the Swedish military service has a strong positive effect on the probability to attain a managerial position later in life. The most intense type of officer training increases the probability of becoming a civilian manager by about 5 percentage points, or 75...

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The Making of a Manager: Evidence from Military Officer Training

Grönqvist, Erik; Lindqvist, Erik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015

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Do Guns Displace Books? – The Impact of Compulsory Military Service on Educational Attainment

Bauer, Thomas K.; Bender, Stefan; Paloyo, Alfredo R.; … - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2011

avoid the draft, leading to an increase in the demand for tertiary education. To estimate the causal eff ect of conscription … regulations associated with the introduction of conscription in Germany in 1956. We estimate conscription to increase the …

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Do Guns Displace Books? The Impact of Compulsory Military Service on Educational Attainment

Bauer, Thomas; Bender, Stefan; Paloyo, Alfredo; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

avoid the draft, leading to an increase in the demand for tertiary education. To estimate the causal effect of conscription … regulations associated with the introduction of conscription in Germany in 1956. We estimate conscription to increase the …

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Opportunity Cost and the Incidence of a Draft Lottery

Bingley, Paul; Lundborg, Petter; Vincent Lyk-Jensen, … - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2014

Military conscription implicitly taxes draftees. Those who would have volunteered at the market wage may be forced to …

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Opportunity Cost and the Incidence of a Draft Lottery

Bingley, Paul; Lundborg, Petter; Vincent Lyk-Jensen, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Military conscription implicitly taxes draftees. Those who would have volunteered at the market wage may be forced to …

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Chapter 32 New Economics of Manpower in the Post-Cold War Era

Asch, Beth J.; Hosek, James R.; Warner, John T. - In: Handbook of defense economics : volume 2, Defense in a …, (pp. 1075-1138). 2007

members to eliminate conscription. A second event was a rise in college attendance in the USA, which led to recruiting … dramatic trend toward volunteer forces in Europe, seeking to explain why some countries chose to end conscription while others …

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