Conscription and educational outcomes.

IF 6.1 2区 经济学
Ruzica Savcic, Nikolaos Theodoropoulos, Dimitrios Xefteris
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Peacetime military service has both positive and negative effects on human capital. While it depreciates academic skills, it also enhances non-cognitive ones. The net effect of conscription is hard to identify due to issues of self-selection, endogenous timing and omitted variables bias. We exploit the compulsory service of men in the Republic of Cyprus preceding university enrolment to deal with the first two problems. After controlling for prior academic performance and other relevant controls in a selection on observables model, we find that duration of service has a positive and significant effect on men's subsequent academic performance as measured by grade point average. Two exogenous reforms-one at the extensive margin and one at the intensive margin of military service-allow us to deal with omitted variables bias. We estimate difference-in-differences models, where female students act as a control group, and show that an increase (reduction) in the average length of army service has a positive (negative) and significant effect on men's academic performance.

Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s00148-023-00944-2.

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征兵和教育成果。
和平时期服兵役对人力资本既有积极影响,也有消极影响。它在贬低学术技能的同时,也增强了非认知技能。由于自我选择、内生时间和遗漏变量偏差等问题,征兵的净效应很难确定。我们利用塞浦路斯共和国男子在大学入学前的义务服务来解决前两个问题。在可观察性选择模型中控制了先前的学习成绩和其他相关控制因素后,我们发现,以平均绩点衡量,服务时间对男性随后的学习成绩有积极而显著的影响。两种外生改革——一种是在兵役的广泛边缘,另一种是兵役的密集边缘——使我们能够处理遗漏的变量偏差。我们估计了差异模型中的差异,其中女生作为对照组,并表明平均服役时间的增加(减少)对男性的学习成绩有积极(消极)和显著的影响。补充信息:在线版本包含补充材料,可访问10.1007/s00148-023-00944-2。
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CiteScore
9.60
自引率
6.60%
发文量
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Population Economics is an international quarterly that publishes original theoretical and applied research in all areas of population economics. Micro-level topics examine individual, household or family behavior, including household formation, marriage, divorce, fertility choices, education, labor supply, migration, health, risky behavior and aging. Macro-level investigations may address such issues as economic growth with exogenous or endogenous population evolution, population policy, savings and pensions, social security, housing, and health care. The journal also features research into economic approaches to human biology, the relationship between population dynamics and public choice, and the impact of population on the distribution of income and wealth. Lastly, readers will find papers dealing with policy issues and development problems that are relevant to population issues.The journal is published in collaboration with POP at UNU-MERIT, the Global Labor Organization (GLO) and the European Society for Population Economics (ESPE).Officially cited as: J Popul Econ Factor (RePEc): 13.576 (July 2018) Rank 69 of 2102 journals listed in RePEc
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