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Rohlfs, Chris.

Essays measuring dollar-fatality tradeoffs and other human costs of war in World War II and Vietnam.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Essays measuring dollar-fatality tradeoffs and other human costs of war in World War II and Vietnam.
Author:	Rohlfs, Chris.
Description:	171 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Michael Greenstone.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-05, Section: A, page: 1854.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-05A.
Subject:	Economics, History.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3219577
ISBN:	9780542711527

Essays measuring dollar-fatality tradeoffs and other human costs of war in World War II and Vietnam.
Rohlfs, Chris.

Essays measuring dollar-fatality tradeoffs and other human costs of war in World War II and Vietnam. - 171 p.

Adviser: Michael Greenstone.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2006.

In Chapter 3, I use the Vietnam draft lottery as a natural experiment to measure the effects of military service on incarcerations. For some cohorts, I find that the incarceration rate is slightly higher than average among men whose lottery numbers were called during Vietnam. In general, however, the Vietnam draft's effects on incarcerations appear to have been small and insignificant, even after adjusting for the draft's effects on education.

ISBN: 9780542711527Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Economics, History.

Essays measuring dollar-fatality tradeoffs and other human costs of war in World War II and Vietnam.
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