Plausibly Exogenous [726] - War Service (01/14/2021)
LHS Variable
War service in next generation
RHS Variable
War service in previous generation
Source of Exogenous Variation
Fact that general suitability for service implies that the closer to age 21 an individual’s father happened to be at a time of war is a key determinant of the father’s likelihood of participation
- Campante and Yanagizawa-Drott (2015), “The Intergenerational Transmission of War”