Explaining the Worldwide Decline in Military Conscription: 1970-2010

Danko Tarabar and Joshua Hall

No 15-30, Working Papers from Department of Economics, West Virginia University

Abstract: We empirically investigate the determinants of the decline in compulsory military service (conscription) from 1970 to 2010 using data on military conscription from the Economic Freedom of the World (EFW) index. We find that the probability of a shorter military service time is strongly associated with the percentage of the population over the age of 65 and the size of government, while the presence of political violence works in the opposite direction. Our results are robust to dynamic panel and ordered probit estimations.

Keywords: conscription; economic freedom; ordered probit; all volunteer force (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 H56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2015-07
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