Vietnam-era military service and DI participation

Paul S. Davies; Patrick J. Purcell; Gary V. Engelhardt

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2015.08.022

Vietnam-era military service and DI participation

Paul S. Davies, Patrick J. Purcell, Gary V. Engelhardt

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	5-8
Number of pages	4
Journal	Economics Letters
Volume	136
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2015.08.022
State	Published - Nov 1 2015

Keywords

Disability Insurance
Military service
Vietnam veterans

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Finance
Economics and Econometrics

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