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Author: Sanandaji, Tino
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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. |
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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.
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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. |
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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.
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