Does Peacetime Military Service Affect Crime?
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Does Peacetime Military Service Affect Crime? / Albæk, Karsten; Leth-Petersen, Søren; le Maire, Christian Daniel; Tranæs , Torben .
Kbh. : Centre for Applied Microeconometrics. Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, 2013.Publikation: Working paper › Forskning
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T1 - Does Peacetime Military Service Affect Crime?
AU - Albæk, Karsten
AU - Leth-Petersen, Søren
AU - le Maire, Christian Daniel
AU - Tranæs , Torben
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Draft lottery data combined with Danish longitudinal administrative records show that military service can reduce criminal activity for youth offenders who enter service at ages 19-22. For this group property crime is reduced for up to five years from the beginning of service, and the effect is therefore not only a result of incapacitation while enrolled. We find no effect of service on violent crimes. We also find no effect of military service on educational attainment and unemployment, but we find negative effects of service on earnings. These results suggest that military service does not upgrade productive human capital directly, but rather impacts criminal activity through other channels, for example by changing the attitudes to criminal activity for this group.
AB - Draft lottery data combined with Danish longitudinal administrative records show that military service can reduce criminal activity for youth offenders who enter service at ages 19-22. For this group property crime is reduced for up to five years from the beginning of service, and the effect is therefore not only a result of incapacitation while enrolled. We find no effect of service on violent crimes. We also find no effect of military service on educational attainment and unemployment, but we find negative effects of service on earnings. These results suggest that military service does not upgrade productive human capital directly, but rather impacts criminal activity through other channels, for example by changing the attitudes to criminal activity for this group.
M3 - Working paper
T3 - CAM working papers
BT - Does Peacetime Military Service Affect Crime?
PB - Centre for Applied Microeconometrics. Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen
CY - Kbh.
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