TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bingley, Paul
AU  - Lundborg, Petter
AU  - Lyk-Jensen, Stéphanie Vincent
        TI  - Brothers in Arms: Spillovers from a Draft Lottery
        PY  - 2017/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10483
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp10483
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - social interactions
KW  - family networks
KW  - peer effect
KW  - military service
KW  - draft lottery
        ER  -