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Does Peacetime Military Service Affect Crime?

Author(s) -

Albæk Karsten,

LethPetersen Søren,

Maire Daniel,

Tranæs Torben

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

the scandinavian journal of economics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.725

H-Index - 64

eISSN - 1467-9442

pISSN - 0347-0520

DOI - 10.1111/sjoe.12181

Subject(s) - peacetime , military service , human capital , affect (linguistics) , earnings , service (business) , demographic economics , labour economics , lottery , economics , criminology , political science , psychology , finance , law , economic growth , economy , microeconomics , communication

Draft lottery data combined with Danish longitudinal administrative records show that military service can reduce criminal activity for youth offenders. For this group, property crime is reduced, and our results indicate that the effect is unlikely to be the result of incapacitation only. We find no effect of military service on violent crime, on educational attainment, or on employment and earnings, either in the short run or in the long run. These results suggest that military service does not upgrade productive human capital directly, but rather affects criminal activity through other channels (e.g., by changing attitudes to criminal activity).

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