Brothers in Arms: Spillovers from a Draft Lottery
Paul Bingley (pab@vive.dk),
Petter Lundborg and
Stéphanie Vincent Lyk-Jensen (svj@sfi.dk)
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Paul Bingley: VIVE - The Danish Centre for Applied Social Science
Stéphanie Vincent Lyk-Jensen: Danish National Centre for Social Research (SFI)
No 10483, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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.
Keywords: social interactions; family networks; peer effect; military service; draft lottery (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H56 I38 J24 J38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 59 pages
Date: 2017-01
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Published - published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 06 August 2019
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