The effects of compulsory military service on income and wages in Russia

Tatiana Ratnikova and Vitovt Kopytok

Applied Econometrics, 2019, vol. 55, 51-72

Abstract: This paper studies the effects of compulsory military service in the Russian army on subsequent income and wages of conscripts. Russia Longitudinal Monitoring survey, RLMS-HSE, is used. It allows to estimate the effects of compulsory military service in the army in peacetime. In order to identify the causal relationship, a kink in the profile of the probability of being drafted into the army by date of birth is used. To eliminate endogeneity regression kink design method is implemented. The results suggest that compulsory military service does not have a significant impact on the wages and incomes of draftees in Russia.

Keywords: compulsory military service; regression kink design; endogeneity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 J31 J45 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://pe.cemi.rssi.ru/pe_2019_55_051-072.pdf Full text (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ris:apltrx:0374

Access Statistics for this article

Applied Econometrics is currently edited by Anatoly Peresetsky

More articles in Applied Econometrics from Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA)
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Anatoly Peresetsky ().