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Title: Veteran Status, Race, and Labor Mobility in the United States

Citation Type: Dissertation/Thesis

Publication Year: 2012

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Abstract: Using a new, representative, longitudinal microdata sample that observes native-born white and black men in 1917 and in 1930 in rich detail, this dissertation investigates the determinants of World War I (WWI) draft probability, the effects of WWI military service on subsequent occupational and geographic mobility, racial variations in the effect of WWI service on labor mobility, and racial variation in Southern out-migrant self-selection during the Great Migration period. Examining how family structure, literacy, occupation, and race affected a man's probability of conscription during WWI, this dissertation finds that inductees were more literate and healthier than the rest of the draft pool. Marriage and having dependents reduced a man's probability of being drafted. Having an agricultural occupation reduced the probability of being drafted for Whites, but not Blacks. Overall, the draft mechanism seems to have functioned as intended and positively selected inductees.

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Authors: Doetsch, Ethan

Institution: University of Utah

Department: Economics

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Degree: Doctor of Philosophy

Publisher Location: Salt Lake City, UT

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Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration, Other, Race and Ethnicity

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