As Luck Would Have it: The Effect of the Vietnam Draft Lottery on Long-Term Career Outcomes
- 1 January 2007
- preprint
- Published by Elsevier BV in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
Using an original data set matching individual birthdays to Vietnam War draft lottery numbers, I study how wartime draft risk affects representation in a sampleKeywords
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