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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 … takers"). The causal analysis for volunteers, who represent over 75% of veterans, is novel in this literature that typically … detrimental health effects that appear 20 years after the end of the conflict. As a group, veterans experience similar …
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Do refugees with better mental health better integrate? : evidence from the building a new life in Australia longitudinal survey
Dang, Hai-Anh; Trinh, Trong-Anh; Verme, Paolo - 2021
Hardly any evidence currently exists on the causal effects of mental illness on refugee labor market outcomes. We offer the first study on this topic in the context of Australia, one of the host countries with the largest number of refugees per capita in the world. Analyzing the Building a New...
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Conscription and military service : do they result in future violent and non-violent incarcerations and recidivism?
Wang, Xintong; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso - 2021
nonviolent crimes of white volunteers and veterans in certain birth cohorts. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012392713
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012507722
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Conscription and educational outcomes : quasi-experimental evidence from the Republic of Cyprus
Savčić, Ružica; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos; Xefteris, … - 2020
Peacetime military service has both positive and negative effects on human capital. While it depreciates academic abilities it also enhances non-cognitive skills. The net effect of conscription is hard to identify due to issues of self-selection, endogenous timing and omitted variables bias. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012262207
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Trade networks, heroin markets, and the labor market outcomes of Vietnam veterans
Lonsky, Jakub; Ruiz, Isabel; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - 2021
drugs. Next, we examine the consequences of Chinese-trafficked heroin by looking at its impact on US Vietnam-era veterans … mostly small but statistically significant detrimental effects on labor market outcomes of Vietnam veterans residing in …
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