Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/161106 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 10483
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Family members tend to have similar labor market outcomes, but measuring the contribution of behavioral spillovers is difficult. To identify spillovers between brothers, we exploit Denmark's largest random assignment of young men to 8 months of military service where service status of brothers is correlated but draft lottery numbers are not. We find average spillovers of elder brother service on younger brother service of 7 percent, and as high as 55 percent for closely spaced brothers without sisters. Elder brother military service affects his own occupational choice and his younger brother's service through private information, thereby encouraging volunteering.
Subjects: 
peer effect
social interactions
family networks
military service
draft lottery
JEL: 
J24
J38
I38
H56
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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