To draft or not to draft? efficiency, generational incidence, and political economy of military conscription
By: by Panu Poutvaara, Andreas Wagener.
Contributors: Wagener, Andreas
Series: Discussion paper ;; no. 1559; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) ;; no. 1559
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Draft -- Economic aspects.; Intergenerational relations -- Economic aspects.
Description: "We study the efficiency and distributional consequences of establishing and abolishing the draft in a dynamic model with overlapping generations, taking into account endogenous human capital formation as well as government budget constraints. The introduction of the draft initially benefits the older generation while harming the young and all future generations. Its Pareto-improving abolition requires levying age-dependent taxes on the young. These being infeasible, abolition of the draft would harm the old. The intergenerational incidence of the gains and losses from its introduction and abolition helps to explain the political allure of the draft"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
Notes: Also available in print.
Includes bibliographical references.
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