Replication data for: The Long-Term Impact of Military Service on Health: Evidence from World War II and Korean War Veterans

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Kelly Bedard; Olivier Deschênes

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Project Citation: 

Bedard, Kelly, and Deschênes, Olivier. Replication data for: The Long-Term Impact of Military Service on Health: Evidence from World War II and Korean War Veterans. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2006. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-12-06. https://doi.org/10.3886/E116087V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary During the World War II and Korean War era, the U.S. military freely distributed cigarettes to overseas personnel and provided low-cost tobacco products on domestic military bases. In fact, even today the military continues to sell subsidized tobacco products on its bases. Using a variety of instrumental variables approaches to deal with nonrandom selection into the military and into smoking, we provide substantial evidence that cohorts with higher military participation rates subsequently suffered more premature mortality. More importantly, we show that a large fraction, 35 to 79 percent, of the excess veteran deaths due to heart disease and lung cancer are attributable to military-induced smoking.

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      I12 Health Behavior
      J45 Public Sector Labor Markets


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