Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/36202 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4399
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Using data from 1960-2000 for OECD countries, we analyze the impact of compulsory military service on the demand for higher education, measured by students enrolled in tertiary education as a share of the working-age population. Based on a theoretical model, we hypothesize that military draft has a negative effect on education. Empirically, we confirm this for the existence of conscription, albeit usually at low statistical significance. However, the intensity of its enforcement, measured by the share of the labor force conscripted by the military and the duration of service, significantly reduces enrollment in higher education.
Subjects: 
Conscription
human capital
JEL: 
H56
I20
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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