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Conscription and Military Service

Do They Result in Future Violent and Nonviolent Incarcerations and Recidivism?

Xintong Wang and Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
Journal of Human Resources, September 2022, 57 (5) 1715-1757; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.58.1.0418-9449R2
Xintong Wang
Xintong Wang is assistant professor at the Department of Accounting, Economics, and Finance, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania ().
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Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
Alfonso Flores-Lagunes is professor at the Department of Economics and senior research associate at the Center for Policy Research, Syracuse University, and a research fellow at IZA and GLO ().
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