TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Keller, Katarina
AU  - Poutvaara, Panu
AU  - Wagener, Andreas
        TI  - Military Draft and Economic Growth in OECD Countries
        PY  - 2006/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 2022
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp2022
        AB  - Economic theory predicts that military conscription is associated with static inefficiencies as well as with dynamic distortions of the accumulation of human and physical capital. Relative to an economy with an all-volunteer force, output levels and growth rates should be lower in countries that rely on a military draft to recruit their army personnel. For OECD countries, we show that military conscription indeed has a statistically significantly negative impact on economic performance.
        KW  - growth
KW  - augmented Solow model
KW  - military draft
        ER  -