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Does peacetime military service affect crime?

Albæk, Karsten; Leth-Petersen, Søren; Le Maire, Daniel; … - 2013

Draft lottery data combined with Danish longitudinal administrative records show that military service can reduce criminal activity for youth offenders who enter service at ages 19-22. For this group property crime is reduced for up to five years from the beginning of service, and the effect is...

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Long-term health effects of Vietnam-Era military service : a quasi-experiment using Australian conscription lotteries

Johnston, David; Shields, Michael; Siminski, Peter - 2015

This paper estimates the long-term health effects of Vietnam-Era military service using Australia's National conscription lotteries for identification. Our primary contribution is the quality and breadth of our health outcomes. We use several administrative sources, containing a near-universe of...

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Weighing the military option : the effects of wartime conditions on investments in human capital

Duncan, Brian; Mansour, Hani; Rintala, Bryson - 2016

Military service is an important vehicle through which young Americans invest in their human capital. Using internal military data, we show that county-level exposure to U.S. combat casualties during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars decreased the supply of new soldiers in that county, and changed...

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Unfit for service : the implications of rising obesity for US military recruitment

Cawley, John H.; Maclean, Johanna Catherine - 2011

This paper contributes to the literature on the labor market consequences of unhealthy behaviors and poor health by examining a previously underappreciated consequence of the rise in obesity in the United States: challenges for military recruitment. Specifically, this paper estimates the percent...

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Military draft and economic growth in OECD countries

Keller, Katarina (contributor); Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2006

Economic theory predicts that military conscription is associated with static inefficiencies as well as with dynamic distortions of the accumulation of human and physical capital. Relative to an economy with an all-volunteer force, output levels and growth rates should be lower in countries that...

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Estimating the veteran effect with endogenous schooling when instruments are potentially weak

Chaudhuri, Saraswata; Rose, Elaina - 2009

Instrumental variables estimates of the effect of military service on subsequent civilian earnings either omit schooling or treat it as exogenous. In a more general setting that also allows for the treatment of schooling as endogenous, we estimate the veteran effect for men who were born between...

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Paying to avoid recession : using reenlistment to estimate the cost of unemployment

Borgschulte, Mark; Martorell, Paco - 2016

This paper provides revealed-preference estimates of the monetary value of avoiding job search in a high-unemployment labor market by examining the behavior of military servicemembers deciding between reenlisting and exiting the military. We find that servicemembers would sacrifice 1.5-2% in...

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The effects of Vietnam-era military service on the long-term health of veterans: a bounds analysis

Wang, Xintong; Flores, Carlos; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso - 2021

We analyze the short- and long-term effects of the U.S. Vietnam-era military service on veterans' health outcomes using … non-veterans regardless of their draft eligibility (the "never takers"). Since we do not find evidence against the … "always takers"). The causal analysis for volunteers, who represent over 75% of veterans, is novel in this literature that …

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Emissions from military training : evidence from Australia

Lee, Wang-Sheng; Tran, Trang My - 2024

Environmental research related to military activities and warfare is sparse and fragmented by discipline. Although achieving military objectives will likely continue to trump any concerns related to the environment during active conflict, military training during peacetime has environmental...

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Drawn into violence : evidence on "what makes a criminal" from the Vietnam draft lotteries

Lindo, Jason M.; Stoecker, Charles - 2010

Draft lottery number assignment during the Vietnam era provides a natural experiment to examine the effects of military service on crime. Using exact dates of birth for inmates in state and federal prisons in 1979, 1986, and 1991, we find robust evidence of effects on violent crimes among...

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