“A Man's Lot”: Marriage, Military Service, and the First World War

Mortality of first world war military personnel: comparison of two military cohorts

OBJECTIVE To identify the impact of the first world war on the lifespan of participating military personnel (including in veterans who survived the war). DESIGN Comparison of two cohorts of military personnel, followed to death. SETTING Military personnel leaving New Zealand to participate in the first world war. PARTICIPANTS From a dataset of the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces, we rand...

A pilot in the first world war.

The Long-Term Impact of Military Service on Health: Evidence from World War II and Korean War Veterans.

During the World War II and Korean War era, the U.S. military freely distributed cigarettes to overseas personnel and provided low-cost tobacco products on domestic military bases. In fact, even today the military continues to sell subsidized tobacco products on its bases. Using a variety of instrumental variables approaches to deal with nonrandom selection into the military and into smoking, w...

The british military hospitals in macedonia during the first world war.

The paper focusses its attention to the medical work of the British Military hospitals stationed in Macedonia during the First World War, the surgical work carried out under very heavy conditions in improvised operating theatres as well as the treatment of the wounded and sick solders brought from the battlefields on the Macedonian Front.

War and Marriage: Assortative Mating and the World War II GI Bill.

World War II and its subsequent GI Bill have been widely credited with playing a transformative role in American society, but there have been few quantitative analyses of these historical events' broad social effects. We exploit between-cohort variation in the probability of military service to investigate how WWII and the GI Bill altered the structure of marriage, and find that it had importan...