@article{2f05cb99f7f44349a15a03bc53184ce3,
title = "Vietnam-era military service and DI participation",
abstract = "Using an instrumental-variable strategy based on randomly assigned draft-lottery numbers, we find Vietnam-era veterans were 3 percentage points more likely than non-veterans to have received Social Security Disability Insurance (DI) benefits by 2011, but no more likely to have applied.",
keywords = "Disability Insurance, Military service, Vietnam veterans",
author = "Davies, {Paul S.} and Purcell, {Patrick J.} and Engelhardt, {Gary V.}",
note = "Funding Information: The research reported herein was supported by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College pursuant to a grant from the US Social Security Administration funded as part of the Retirement Research Consortium. The opinions and conclusions are solely those of the authors and should not be construed as representing the opinions or policy of the Social Security Administration, any agency of the Federal Government, Boston College Center for Retirement Research, or Syracuse University. We thank Emily Roessel for excellent research assistance. All errors are our own. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2015 Elsevier B.V.",
year = "2015",
month = nov,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1016/j.econlet.2015.08.022",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "136",
pages = "5--8",
journal = "Economics Letters",
issn = "0165-1765",
publisher = "Elsevier",
}