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Who Will Fight? The All-Volunteer Army after 9/11

Author(s) -

Susan Payne Carter,

Alexander A. Smith,

Carl Wojtaszek

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

american economic review

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 16.936

H-Index - 297

eISSN - 1944-7981

pISSN - 0002-8282

DOI - 10.1257/aer.p20171082

Subject(s) - white (mutation) , volunteer , active duty , software deployment , demographic economics , duty , demography , criminology , military personnel , political science , development economics , economics , law , psychology , sociology , engineering , biochemistry , chemistry , gene , software engineering , agronomy , biology

Who fought the War on Terror? We find that as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan progressed, there was an increase in the fraction of active-duty Army enlistees who were white or from high-income neighborhoods and that these two groups selected combat occupations more often. Among men, we find an increase in deployment and combat injuries for white and Hispanic soldiers relative to black soldiers and for soldiers from high-income neighborhoods relative to those from low-income neighborhoods. This finding suggests that an all-volunteer force does not compel a disproportionate number of non-white and low socio-economic men to fight America's wars.

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