We provide new evidence on the long-term impacts of peacetime conscription, using
longitudinal data for Portuguese men born in 1967. These men were inducted at age 21 …

We identify the causal effect of compulsory military service on conscripts' subsequent labor-
market outcomes by exploiting the regression-discontinuity design of the military draft in …

We estimate the causal impact of military conscription on long-term beliefs and personality
traits. To address potential endogeneity concerns, we exploit the conscription lottery in …

In this paper, we estimate the effect of military service on the perpetration of crime. Several
hypothesized links exist between service and crime, but recent quasi-experimental studies …

Previous research on military conscription exclusively focuses on the effect of military
service on subsequent labor market outcomes. I examine the effect of peacetime …

In this paper, we estimate the effects of mandatory military and alternative community service
by exploiting the post‐cold war decrease in the need for soldiers causing a substantial …

We provide empirical evidence on the long‐term causal impact of military conscription on
sexist attitudes and intimate partner violence. To address potential endogeneity, we exploit …

In this paper, we estimate the effects of mandatory military service by exploiting the post-cold
war decrease in the need for soldiers causing a substantial number of potential conscripts …

Purpose Many European countries suspended mandatory conscription after the Cold War,
and especially between 2000 and 2010. However, with the changing security situation in …

Life satisfaction is arguably the ultimate goal of individual actions. We use the abolition of
compulsory military and civil service in 2011 in Germany as a natural experiment to identify …