Vietnam-era military service and DI participation

Paul S. Davies, Patrick J. Purcell and Gary V. Engelhardt

Economics Letters, 2015, vol. 136, issue C, 5-8

Abstract: Using an instrumental-variable strategy based on randomly assigned draft-lottery numbers, we find Vietnam-era veterans were 3 percentage points more likely than non-veterans to have received Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) benefits by 2011, but no more likely to have applied.

Keywords: Disability Insurance; Military service; Vietnam veterans (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2015.08.022

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