Does the military turn men into criminals? New evidence from Australia’s conscription lotteries

Siminski, P; Ville, S; Paull, A

Does the military turn men into criminals? New evidence from Australia’s conscription lotteries

Siminski, P

Ville, S Paull, A

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Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29 (1), pp. 197 - 218
Issue Date:: 2016-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Siminski, P https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3099-8049	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Ville, S	en_US
dc.contributor.author	Paull, A	en_US
dc.date.issued	2016-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Journal of Population Economics, 2016, 29 (1), pp. 197 - 218	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0933-1433	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/107601
dc.description.abstract	© 2014, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. In this paper, we estimate the effect of military service on the perpetration of crime. Several hypothesized links exist between service and crime, but recent quasi-experimental studies on this subject have produced mixed results. Our contribution to this literature uses Australia’s Vietnam era conscription lotteries for identification along with criminal court data from Australia’s three largest states. We find no evidence that military service increases or decreases crime in any category. In our preferred specification, the 95 % confidence interval rules out positive (negative) effects larger than 11 % (10 %) relative to the mean crime rate.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Journal of Population Economics	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1007/s00148-014-0537-5	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Economics	en_US
dc.title	Does the military turn men into criminals? New evidence from Australia’s conscription lotteries	en_US
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© 2014, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. In this paper, we estimate the effect of military service on the perpetration of crime. Several hypothesized links exist between service and crime, but recent quasi-experimental studies on this subject have produced mixed results. Our contribution to this literature uses Australia’s Vietnam era conscription lotteries for identification along with criminal court data from Australia’s three largest states. We find no evidence that military service increases or decreases crime in any category. In our preferred specification, the 95 % confidence interval rules out positive (negative) effects larger than 11 % (10 %) relative to the mean crime rate.

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