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Title: Why We Fight: Understanding Military Participation over the Life Cycle
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1. Mann, David R.
Why We Fight: Understanding Military Participation over the Life Cycle
Journal of Human Capital 6,4 (Winter 2012): 279-315.
Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/668863
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Keyword(s): Business Cycles; Human Capital; Labor Supply; Life Cycle Research; Military Service

This paper specifies a dynamic career decision model that includes military service options to understand how human capital, compensation, the business cycle, and combat risk affect the military labor supply. The model is estimated using data on males from the 1979 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth.
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Mann, David R. "Why We Fight: Understanding Military Participation over the Life Cycle." Journal of Human Capital 6,4 (Winter 2012): 279-315.