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Alesina, Alberto - 2017

The increase in army size observed in early modern times changed the way states conducted wars. Starting in the late 18th century, states switched from mercenaries to a mass army by conscription. In order for the population to accept to fight and endure war, the government elites began to...

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Did Vietnam Veterans Get Sicker in the 1990s? The Complicated Effects of Military Service on Self-Reported Health

Angrist, Joshua D.; Chen, Stacey; Frandsen, Brigham R. - 2021

The veterans disability compensation (VDC) program, which provides a monthly stipend to disabled veterans, is the third … claims from Vietnam veterans, raising concerns about costs as well as health. We use the draft lottery to study the long …

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

Cawley, John H. - 2010

Excess body weight or body fat hinders performance of military duties. As a result, the U.S. military has weight-for-height and percent body fat standards for enlistment. This paper estimates the number and percent of military-age civilians who meet, and do not meet, the current active duty...

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The Long-Term Effects of Military Conscription on Mortality : Estimates from the Vietnam-Era Draft Lottery

Conley, Dalton - 2009

Research on the effects of Vietnam military service suggests that Vietnam veterans experienced significantly higher … mortality than both non-Vietnam veterans and the civilian population at large. These results, however, may be biased by non …-random selection into the military if unobserved background differences between veterans and non-veterans affect mortality directly …

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Military Officer Quality in the All-Volunteer Force

Cancian, Matthew - 2015

We show a statistically significant and quantitatively meaningful decline in the intelligence of Marine Officers from 1980 to 2014 as measured by their scores on the General Classification Test (GCT) which has been shown to be a good predictor of success in the military. This contrasts with the...

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

Lindo, Jason M. - 2012

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 that draft eligibility increases incarceration for...

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The Effect of Vietnam-Era Conscription and Genetic Potential for Educational Attainment on Schooling Outcomes

Schmitz, Lauren - 2016

years of education. Our findings suggest veterans with below average PGSs for educational attainment completed fewer years … of schooling than comparable non-veterans with the same PGS, primarily due to fewer years of college education. On the … other hand, we do not find any difference in the educational attainment of veterans and non-veterans with above average PGSs …

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Military Service and Public Sector Employment : Birthdates Called in the Vietnam Draft Lotteries Appear Excessively in the Population of Civilian U.S. Federal Personnel Records

Johnson, Tim - 2019

“bestowed” in return for wartime mobilization. Similarly, in the U.S., governments have hired veterans preferentially for … percent of job holders identifying as veterans in the civilian U.S. executive branch exceeds the proportion in the wider …

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Defensive Medicine : Evidence from Military Immunity

Frakes, Michael - 2018

We estimate the extent of defensive medicine by physicians, embracing the no-liability counterfactual made possible by the structure of liability rules in the Military Heath System. Active-duty patients seeking treatment from military facilities cannot sue for harms resulting from negligent...

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Conscription as Regulation

Mulligan, Casey B.; Shleifer, Andrei - 2021

We examine the practice of military conscription around the world from the perspective of two standard theories, and a new one, which emphasizes the fixed cost of introducing and administering the draft as a deterrent to its use. We find that, holding the relative size of the military constant,...

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