@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp14352,
            	author={Puhani, Patrick A. and Sterrenberg, Margret K.},
            	title={Effects of Mandatory Military Service on Wages and Other Socioeconomic Outcomes},
            	year={2021},
	month={May},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={14352},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp14352},
	abstract={In this paper, we estimate the effects of mandatory military service by exploiting the post-cold war decrease in the need for soldiers causing a substantial number of potential conscripts not to be drafted into the German military. Specifically, using previously unavailable information on degree of fitness in the military's medical exam as a control variable, we test for the effects of mandatory military service on wages; employment; marriage/partnership status; and satisfaction with work, financial situation, health, family life, friends, and life in general. We find almost no statistically significant effects of this 6 to 9 month career interruption for young German men, with the exception of hourly wage, which shows a negative point estimate of -15 percent with a large confidence interval of between -30 and -0.2 percent. This interval estimate is consistent with previous findings for the United States, Denmark, and the Netherlands.},
	keywords={natural experiment;career breaks;life satisfaction;employment;wages;conscription},
            }