| By: |
Majbouri, Mahdi (Babson College) |
| Abstract: |
Military service is a popular method of army recruitment for governments of
developing countries that are particularly prone to conflict. This study
contributes to the largely underresearched issues of mili-tary service by
looking at an unintended consequence of a military service exemption policy
and an-swering a principal question: is there a fear of conscription among the
youth? It uses a discontinuity in the military service law in an
under-researched country, Iran, and offers causal evidence that fear of
conscription entices young men to get more education against their will. This
exogenous increase is used to estimate returns to education. |
| Keywords: |
conscription, coercive labor market, natural experiment, regression discontinuity, higher-educational attainment |
| JEL: |
I23 J47 I26 N35 |
| Date: |
2017–05 |
| URL: |
http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:iza:izadps:dp10787&r=cwa |