TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Cesur, Resul
AU  - Sabia, Joseph J.
AU  - Tekin, Erdal
        TI  - The Psychological Costs of War: Military Combat and Mental Health
        PY  - 2011/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 5615
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp5615
        AB  - While descriptive evidence suggests that deployment in the Global War on Terrorism is associated with adverse mental health, the causal effect of combat is not well established. Using data drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we exploit exogenous variation in deployment assignment and find that soldiers deployed to combat zones where they engage in frequent enemy firefight or witness allied or civilian deaths are at substantially increased risk for suicidal ideation, psychological counseling, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Our estimates imply lower-bound health care costs of $1.5 to $2.7 billion for combat-induced PTSD.
        KW  - military service
KW  - post-traumatic stress disorder
KW  - depression
        ER  -