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To draft or not to draft? : Efficiency, generational incidence, and political economy of military conscription

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dc.creator Poutvaara, Panu
dc.creator Wagener, Andreas
dc.date 2005
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:01:28Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:01:28Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18818
dc.identifier ppn:485188597
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18818
dc.description We study the efficiency and distributional consequences of establishing and abolishing the draft in a dynamic model with overlapping generations, taking into account endogenous human capital formation as well as government budget constraints. The introduction of the draft initially benefits the older generation while harming the young and all future generations. Its Pareto-improving abolition requires levying age-dependent taxes on the young. These being infeasible, abolition of the draft would harm the old. The intergenerational incidence of the gains and losses from its introduction and abolition helps to explain the political allure of the draft.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher
dc.relation CESifo working papers 1454
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject H20
dc.subject D63
dc.subject I21
dc.subject H57
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject draft
dc.subject conscription
dc.subject education
dc.subject intergenerational fairness
dc.subject Wehrdienst
dc.subject Bildungsinvestition
dc.subject Overlapping Generations
dc.subject Generationenbeziehungen
dc.subject Gerechtigkeit
dc.subject Public Choice
dc.subject Theorie
dc.title To draft or not to draft? : Efficiency, generational incidence, and political economy of military conscription
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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