| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 36 pages) |
| Series |
Technical report ; TR-1281-OSD |
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Technical report (Rand Corporation) ; TR-1281-OSD.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Data used in the study -- Empirical model -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusions |
| Summary |
This study examines how the deaths of service members during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have affected the subsequent labor market earnings of their surviving spouses and the extent to which survivor benefits provided by the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Social Security Administration compensate for lost household earnings. It also assesses the extent to which payments that surviving spouses and children receive compensate for earnings losses attributable to combat deaths. The labor market earnings of households experiencing a combat death in the years following deployment are compared with those of deployed but uninjured service-member households. Because the risk of combat death is likely to be correlated with characteristics of service members that could themselves affect household labor market outcomes (e.g., pay grade, military occupation, risk-taking behavior), the study controlled for a rich array of individual-level characteristics, including labor market outcomes for both service members and spouses prior to deployment. This approach includes potentially unobserved factors that are unique to specific households and fixed over time and increases the likelihood that the results capture the causal effect of combat death on household earnings |
| Notes |
"Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense." |
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"National Defense Research Institute." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 35-36) |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Military spouses -- Salaries, etc. -- Research -- United States
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Survivors' benefits -- Research -- United States
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Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Casualties -- Research -- United States
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Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Casualties -- Research -- United States
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HISTORY -- Military -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Human Resources & Personnel Management.
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HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
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Military & Naval Science.
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Law, Politics & Government.
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Military Administration.
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Iraq
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Heaton, Paul, 1978- author.
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Loughran, David S., 1969- author.
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United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense.
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National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
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Rand Corporation.
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| LC no. |
2012943078 |
| ISBN |
9780833077943 |
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0833077945 |
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9780833077967 |
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0833077961 |
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