PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Paul Bingley
AU  - Petter Lundborg
AU  - Stéphanie Vincent Lyk-Jensen
TI  - Brothers in Arms: Spillovers from a Draft Lottery
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.56.1.0317-8646R3
DP  - 2019 Aug 06
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 0317-8646R3
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2019/08/02/jhr.56.1.0317-8646R3.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2019/08/02/jhr.56.1.0317-8646R3.full
AB  - While family members tend to have similar labor market outcomes, measuring the contribution of behavioral spillovers is difficult. To identify spillovers between brothers, we exploit Denmark’s largest random assignment—of young men, to 8 months of military service—where service status of brothers is correlated but draft lottery numbers are not. We find average spillovers of elder brother service on younger brother service of 7 percent, and as high as 55 percent for closely spaced brothers without sisters. Elder brother military service affects his own occupational choice and his younger brother’s service by discouraging any refusal to serve.