The war at home
Subtitle: effects of Vietnam-era military service on post-war household stability
By: Dalton Conley, Jennifer Heerwig
Contributors: Heerwig, Jennifer A.; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16671; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16671.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Description: "Prior researchers have deployed the Vietnam-era draft lottery as an instrument to estimate causal effects of military service on health and income.  This research has shown that effects of veteran status on mortality and earnings that appeared shortly after the war seem to have dissipated by 2000.  While these are important outcomes to economists, by focusing on them, researchers may be neglecting an area of life that could be more sensitive to the psychological effects of military service: household and family life.  In the present study we use the same IV approach to model the causal impact of Vietnam- era military service on four novel outcomes: residential stability, marital stability, housing tenure and extended family living arrangements.  In analysis of the 2000 U.S.  Census and the 2005 American Community Survey, we find that veteran status has no effect on housing tenure or residential stability.  However, in the ACS sample, being a veteran appears to lower the likelihood of marital disruption, and results for extended family living arrangements appear to change signs across the two samples.  Meanwhile, results tend to be strongest for whites"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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