The psychological costs of war
Subtitle: military combat and mental health
By: Resul Cesur, Joseph J. Sabia, Erdal Tekin
Contributors: Sabia, Joseph J.; Tekin, Erdal; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16927; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16927.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this.  You can sign up to receive the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email.  While descriptive evidence suggests that deployment in the Global War on Terrorism is associated with adverse mental health, the causal effect of combat is not well established.  Using data drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we exploit exogenous variation in deployment assignment and find that soldiers deployed to combat zones where they engage in frequent enemy firefight or witness allied or civilian deaths are at substantially increased risk for suicidal ideation, psychological counseling, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).  Our estimates imply lower-bound health care costs of $1.5 to $2.7 billion for combat-induced PTSD"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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