Do Guns Displace Books? – The Impact of Compulsory Military Service on Educational Attainment

Arbeitspapier

Compulsory military service typically drafts young men when they are at the height of their learning ability. Thus, it can be expected to depress the demand for higher education since skill atrophy and the delayed entry into the civilian labor market reduce the returns to human-capital investments. Attending university, however, might open the possibility to avoid the draft, leading to an increase in the demand for tertiary education. To estimate the causal eff ect of conscription on the probability to obtain a university degree, we use a regression-discontinuity design that employs special regulations associated with the introduction of conscription in Germany in 1956. We estimate conscription to increase the probability of having a university degree.

Angaben zum Objekt

• ISBN: 978-3-86788-304-7
• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Ruhr Economic Papers ; No. 260

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Education: Government Policy ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
• Thema: Regression discontinuity ; conscription ; career interruption ; skill atrophy ; TS2SLS

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Bauer, Thomas K. ; Bender, Stefan ; Paloyo, Alfredo R. ; Schmidt, Christoph M.
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (RWI)
• (wo): Essen
• (wann): 2011

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/61364
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ