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Title: “Gallantry in Action”: Evidence of Advantageous Selection in a Volunteer Army

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Publication Year: 2013

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Abstract: A voluntary army’s quality exceeds or deceeds a drafted army’s quality de- pending on whether selection is advantageous or adverse. Using a collection of data sets that covers the majority of the U.S. Army soldiers during World War II, we test for the possibility of adverse selection into the military. Rather, we find advantageous selection: volunteers and drafted men showed no significant difference in fatality outcomes, but volunteers earned distinguished awards at a higher rate than drafted men, particularly after Pearl Harbor.

Url: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.384.2785&rep=rep1&type=pdf

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Authors: Birchenall, Javier, A; Koch, Thomas, G

Publisher: University of California at Santa Barbara

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Other

Countries: United States