Conscription and Military Service: Do They Result in Future Violent and Non-Violent Incarcerations and Recidivism?

Xintong Wang () and Alfonso Flores-Lagunes ()
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Xintong Wang: Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania

No 14003, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Employing nonparametric bounds, we examine the effect of military service on incarceration outcomes using the Vietnam draft lotteries as a possibly invalid instrumental variable for military service. The draft is allowed to have a direct effect on the outcomes independently of military service, disposing of the exclusion restriction. We find: (i) suggestive but not strong statistical evidence that the direct effect of the draft increases the incarceration rate for violent offenses for a particular cohort of draft avoiders, and (ii) military service increases the incarceration rate for violent and nonviolent crimes of white volunteers and veterans in certain birth cohorts.

Keywords: conscription; military service; nonparametric bounds; incarceration; crime (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C31 C36 K4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 93 pages
Date: 2020-12
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Published - published in: Journal of Human Resources , 2022, 57 (5), 1715 - 1757

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