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Petter Lundborg. Photo.

Petter Lundborg

Professor

Petter Lundborg. Photo.

Brothers in Arms Spillovers from a Draft Lottery

Author

  • Paul Bingley
  • Petter Lundborg
  • Stéphanie Vincent Lyk-Jensen

Summary, in English

While family members tend to have similar labor market outcomes, measuring the contribution of behavioral spillovers is difficult. To identify spillovers between brothers, we exploit Denmark's largest random assignment of young men—to eight months of military service, where service status of brothers is correlated, but draft lottery numbers are not. We find average spillovers of elder brother service on younger brother service of 7 percent, and as high as 55 percent for closely spaced brothers without sisters. Elder brother's military service affects his own occupational choice and his younger brother's service by discouraging any refusal to serve.

Department/s

  • Department of Economics
  • Centre for Economic Demography

Publishing year

2021-12

Language

English

Pages

225-268

Publication/Series

Journal of Human Resources

Volume

56

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

University of Wisconsin Press

Topic

  • Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0022-166X