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Title: The Doughboys Network: Social Interactions and the Employment of World War I Veterans

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Publication Year: 2009

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Abstract: This paper examines how involuntarily-formed social networks affect individual labor marketoutcomes. Using a new dataset of WWI draftees linked to the 1930 census, I identify theeffect of a military companys postwar employment on a veterans employment. The marginaleffect of an additional peer gaining employment, all else equal, increases a veterans likelihoodof employment by 0.8 percentage points. I develop a new framework which allows fordecomposing the social effect into its two components, the endogenous ("the effect of others'outcomes"), and the contextual ("the effect of others' characteristics"). In this setting, I findthe endogenous effect to be much stronger.

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Authors: Laschever, Ron

Publisher: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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