The Causal Effect of Military Conscription on Crime and the Labor Market
Journal: SSRN Electronic Journal
Year: 2016

This paper uses detailed individual register data to identify the causal effect of mandatory\npeacetime military conscription in Sweden on the lives of young men born in the 1970s and 80s. Because draftees are positively selected into service based on their draft board test\nperformance, our primary identification strategy uses the random assignment of potential\nconscripts to draft board officiators who have relatively high or low tendencies to place\ndraftees into service in an instrumental va