Your Momma Was Home and You Left?: Parental Influence on Military Service

Elaina Rose

No UWEC-2007-31, Working Papers from University of Washington, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper describes the relationship between a youth’s residence at age sixteen and the likelihood he eventually enlists in the military. Data from the NLSY97 show that white youths raised in two parent families are less likely to enlist than those raised in other family structures. Black youths living with fathers only are more likely to enlist than those living with mothers only. Given that men tend to be more supportive of the military, this suggests that parental preferences are transmitted through residence as a teen.

Date: 2007-11
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.econ.washington.edu/user/erose/rose_mommaleft_2feb.pdf (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 404 Not Found (http://www.econ.washington.edu/user/erose/rose_mommaleft_2feb.pdf [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://www.econ.washington.edu/user/erose/rose_mommaleft_2feb.pdf [302 Found]--> https://econ.washington.edu/user/erose/rose_mommaleft_2feb.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:udb:wpaper:uwec-2007-31

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from University of Washington, Department of Economics Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Michael Goldblatt ().