| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w14781 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 14781 |
| Did Vietnam Veterans Get Sicker in the 1990s? The Complicated Effects of Military Service on Self-Reported Health | |
| Joshua D. Angrist; Stacey H. Chen; Brigham R. Frandsen | |
| 发表日期 | 2009-03-12 |
| 出版年 | 2009 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | The veterans disability compensation (VDC) program, which provides a monthly stipend to disabled veterans, is the third largest American disability insurance program. Since the late 1990s, VDC growth has been driven primarily by an increase in claims from Vietnam veterans, raising concerns about costs as well as health. We use the draft lottery to study the long-term effects of Vietnam-era military service on health and work in the 2000 Census. These estimates show no significant overall effects on employment or work-related disability status, with a small effect on non-work-related disability for whites. On the other hand, estimates for white men with low earnings potential show a large negative impact on employment and a marked increase in non-work-related disability rates. The differential impact of Vietnam-era service on low-skill men cannot be explained by more combat or war-theatre exposure for the least educated, leaving the relative attractiveness of VDC for less skilled men and the work disincentives embedded in the VDC system as a likely explanation. |
| 主题 | Public Economics ; National Fiscal Issues ; Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Poverty and Wellbeing ; Labor Economics ; Labor Supply and Demand |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w14781 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/572457 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Joshua D. Angrist,Stacey H. Chen,Brigham R. Frandsen. Did Vietnam Veterans Get Sicker in the 1990s? The Complicated Effects of Military Service on Self-Reported Health. 2009. |
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