%0 Journal Article %A Xintong Wang %A Alfonso Flores-Lagunes %T Conscription and Military Service: Do They Result in Future Violent and Non-Violent Incarcerations and Recidivism? %D 2020 %R 10.3368/jhr.58.1.0418-9449R2 %J Journal of Human Resources %P 0418-9449R2 %X 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. %U https://jhr.uwpress.org/content/wpjhr/early/2020/12/03/jhr.58.1.0418-9449R2.full.pdf