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Author: Sanandaji, Tino
Resulting in 2 citations.
1. Asoni, Andrea
Gilli, Andrea
Gilli, Mauro
Sanandaji, Tino
A Mercenary Army of the Poor? Technological Change and the Demographic Composition of the Post-9/11 U.S. Military
Journal of Strategic Studies published online (30 January 2020): DOI: 10.1080/01402390.2019.1692660.
Also: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01402390.2019.1692660
Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Keyword(s): Cognitive Ability; Family Income; Military Personnel; Military Recruitment; Socioeconomic Background

We test two sets of alternative hypotheses about the demographic composition of the U.S. armed forces. We analyse individual-level data of two national representative samples covering the period 1979-2008. We find that, in contrast to the accepted wisdom, the U.S. military no longer primarily recruits individuals from the most disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds. Technological, tactical, operational and doctrinal changes have led to a change in the demand for personnel. As a result, on different metrics such as family income and family wealth as well as cognitive abilities, military personnel are on average like the average American citizen or slightly better.
Bibliography Citation
Asoni, Andrea, Andrea Gilli, Mauro Gilli and Tino Sanandaji. "A Mercenary Army of the Poor? Technological Change and the Demographic Composition of the Post-9/11 U.S. Military." Journal of Strategic Studies published online (30 January 2020): DOI: 10.1080/01402390.2019.1692660.
2. Asoni, Andrea
Sanandaji, Tino
Identifying the Effect of College Education on Business and Employment Survival
Small Business Economics 46,2 (February 2016): 311-324.
Also: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11187-015-9686-5
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Springer
Keyword(s): Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); College Degree; Educational Attainment; Employment; Locus of Control (see Rotter Scale); Self-Employed Workers

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

We use a multipronged identification strategy to estimate the effect of college education on business and employment survival. We account for the endogeneity of both education and business ownership with a competing risks duration model augmented with a college selection equation. We estimate the model jointly on the self-employed and salaried employees in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Unlike most previous studies, we find that college does not increase business survival. By contrast, a college degree significantly increases employment survival. Cognitive skills have a positive impact on survival for both the self-employed and employees. These findings suggest that college benefits the self-employed less than salaried, perhaps by generating skills more useful in employment than self-employment, or because of differences in the value of signaling.
Bibliography Citation
Asoni, Andrea and Tino Sanandaji. "Identifying the Effect of College Education on Business and Employment Survival." Small Business Economics 46,2 (February 2016): 311-324.