Since the beginning of the all-volunteer era, millions of young Americans have chosen to
enlist in the military. These volunteers disproportionately come from disadvantaged …

The average American military enlistee is likely to differ from the average civilian in
employment ambitions and prospects. Current research on veteran wages, however, only …

This article documents heterogeneous economic returns to military service that vary with the
individual propensity to serve, even within a relatively privileged sample of mostly white high …

Each year, thousands of young men enlist in the Armed Forces and after a few years most
are discharged and re-enter the civilian labor force. This article investigates the impact of …

The overriding objective of US military compensation policy is to attract and retain the force
necessary to meet the nation's national security objectives. Whether and how military service …

To military recruiters and manpower planners, as well as to potential enlistees, the extent to
which a tour of military service can prove economically rewarding in subsequent civilian …

The volunteer military is a labor market institution operating at a unique nexus of race,
gender, and class. In this research note I discuss some of the labor market consequences of …

We use the draft lottery to construct instrumental variables (IV) estimates of the impact of
Vietnam-era military service on veterans' Social Security (SSA) earnings through 2007. We …

Conscription forces young men to serve in the military, irrespective of their opportunity costs.
Using random assignment in the Danish draft lottery, we find a negative average effect of …

Abstract Exploiting Australia's National Service lotteries of 1965 to 1972, I estimate the effect
of army service on employment outcomes. Population data from military personnel records …