The Military Draft and 1969 Draft Lottery for the Vietnam War

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The Vietnam draft lotteries functioned as a randomized experiment—which has allowed social scientists to study its life-changing effects

Starting in 1969, the US held a series of lotteries to draft men to fight in the Vietnam War and to determine the order of call In the lottery number called in 1972 2A candid assessment of the problems caused by nonrandom selection for military service is given by Crane and Wise

gacor 33 slot This paper uses the draft lottery as a natural experiment to estimate the return to education and the veteran premium Estimates are based on special extracts Vietnam Draft Lottery Fate of a Lifetime An unpopular and escalating war More men are needed Congress institutes a lottery system and millions of young