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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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Unfit for Service : The Implications of Rising Obesity for U.S. Military Recruitment

Cawley, John H. - 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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Long-Term Health Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service : A Quasi-Experiment Using Australian Conscription Lotteries

Johnston, David - 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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Paying to Avoid Recession : Using Reenlistment to Estimate the Cost of Unemployment

Borgschulte, Mark - 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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Drawn into Violence : Evidence on 'What Makes a Criminal' from the Vietnam Draft Lotteries

Lindo, Jason M. - 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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Military Draft and Economic Growth in OECD Countries

Keller, Katarina R. I. - 2013

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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Does Peacetime Military Service Affect Crime?

Albæk, Karsten - 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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The Long-Term Health Impact of Agent Orange : Evidence from the Vietnam War

Le, Duong; Pham, Thanh; Polachek, Solomon W. - 2022

This paper examines the long-term health impact of Agent Orange, a toxic military herbicide containing dioxin that was used extensively during the U.S.-Vietnam war in the 1960-70s. Using a nationally representative health survey and an instrumental variable approach that addresses the potential...

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Brothers in Arms : Spillovers from a Draft Lottery

Bingley, Paul - 2017

Family members tend to have similar labor market outcomes, but measuring the contribution of behavioral spillovers is difficult. To identify spillovers between brothers, we exploit Denmark's largest random assignment – of young men to 8 months of military service – where service status of...

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Can Compulsory Military Service Raise Civilian Wages? Evidence from the Peacetime Draft in Portugal

Card, David E. - 2011

Although the practice of military conscription was widespread during most of the past century, credible evidence on the effects of mandatory service is limited. Angrist (1990) showed that the Vietnam-era draft in the U.S. lowered the early-career wages of conscripts, a finding he attributed to...

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