%0 Report
        %A Bingley, Paul
%A Lundborg, Petter
%A Lyk-Jensen, Stéphanie Vincent
        %T Brothers in Arms: Spillovers from a Draft Lottery
        %D 2017
        %8 2017 Jan
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 10483
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp10483
        %X Family members tend to have similar labor market outcomes, but measuring the contribution of behavioral spillovers is difficult. To identify spillovers between brothers, we exploit Denmark's largest random assignment – of young men to 8 months of military service – where service status of brothers is correlated but draft lottery numbers are not. We find average spillovers of elder brother service on younger brother service of 7 percent, and as high as 55 percent for closely spaced brothers without sisters. Elder brother military service affects his own occupational choice and his younger brother's service through private information, thereby encouraging volunteering.
        %K social interactions
%K family networks
%K peer effect
%K military service
%K draft lottery