Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/21335 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1559
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
draft
conscription
education
intergenerational fairness
JEL: 
D63
H20
H57
I21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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