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

Xintong Wang and Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
Published online before print December 14, 2020, 0418-9449R2; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.58.1.0418-9449R2
Xintong Wang
Assistant professor at the Department of Accounting, Economics, and Finance, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania; Slippery Rock, PA, 16057; Telephone: +1 724-738-2579;
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Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
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; 426 Eggers Hall, Syracuse NY 13244-1020; Telephone: +1 315-443-9045;
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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.

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  • C36

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Conscription and Military Service: Do They Result in Future Violent and Non-Violent Incarcerations and Recidivism?
Xintong Wang, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
Journal of Human Resources Dec 2020, 0418-9449R2; DOI: 10.3368/jhr.58.1.0418-9449R2

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Conscription and Military Service: Do They Result in Future Violent and Non-Violent Incarcerations and Recidivism?
Xintong Wang, Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
Journal of Human Resources Dec 2020, 0418-9449R2; DOI: 10.3368/jhr.58.1.0418-9449R2
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