Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/51722 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5563
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We add to the literature on the long-term economic effects of male military service. We concentrate on post-war British conscription into the armed services from 1949 to 1960. It was called National Service and applied to males aged 18 to 26. Based on a regression discontinuity design we estimate the effect of military service on the earnings of those required to serve through conscription. We argue that, in general, we should not expect to find large long-term real earnings among conscripts compared to later birth cohorts of males who were not eligible for call-up. Our empirical evidence firmly rejects the view that conscription entails relative long-term real earnings differences.
Subjects: 
National Service
WWII conscription
long-term real earnings
regression discontinuity design
JEL: 
J24
J31
N44
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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