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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

The War at Home: Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service on Postwar Household Stability

  • Dalton Conley
  • Jennifer Heerwig
American Economic Review
vol. 101, no. 3, May 2011
(pp. 350–54)
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Abstract

Prior researchers have deployed the Vietnam-era draft lottery as an instrument to estimate causal effects of military service on health and earnings. However, household and residential outcomes may be more sensitive to the psychological effects of military service. Using 2SLS analyses of the 2000 Census and the 2005 American Community Survey, we find mixed results for residential stability, housing tenure, and extended family residence. While in the ACS white veterans are less mobile, veteran status has no effect on homeownership. Veteran status reduces extended family living for whites in the Census but increases it for ACS veterans of "other" races.

Citation

Conley, Dalton, and Jennifer Heerwig. 2011. "The War at Home: Effects of Vietnam-Era Military Service on Postwar Household Stability." American Economic Review, 101 (3): 350–54. DOI: 10.1257/aer.101.3.350

JEL Classification

  • D12 Consumer Economics: Empirical Analysis
  • I12 Health Production
  • J31 Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
  • J45 Public Sector Labor Markets
  • R31 Housing Supply and Markets