Hirsch, Barry T.; Mehay, Stephen L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
A key concern in estimating the effect of military service on civilian earnings is bias from unmeasured differences … for officers and enlisted personnel and by race and era of service. The average impact of active-duty service on civilian … earnings is 3 percent among the reservist population, but this average reflects treatment effects of essentially zero for …