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Essays measuring dollar-fatality tradeoffs and other human costs of war in World War II and Vietnam.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Essays measuring dollar-fatality tradeoffs and other human costs of war in World War II and Vietnam./
Author:	Rohlfs, Chris.
Description:	171 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Michael Greenstone.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International67-05A.
Subject:	Economics, History. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3219577
ISBN:	9780542711527

Essays measuring dollar-fatality tradeoffs and other human costs of war in World War II and Vietnam.
Rohlfs, Chris.

Essays measuring dollar-fatality tradeoffs and other human costs of war in World War II and Vietnam. - 171 p.

Adviser: Michael Greenstone.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2006.

This dissertation consists of three essays measuring human costs associated with military actions. Chapter 1 applies the economic concept of the value of a statistical life to the field of national defense. Using a unique battle-level dataset, I measure the value that the United States government placed on soldiers' lives in World War II. Tank-intensive units were expensive in dollars, but troop-intensive units put more human targets on the battlefield. I find that, holding mission accomplishment constant, the Army could have reduced fatalities by increasing its use of tanks and decreasing its use of ground troops. While imprecise, my preferred estimates suggest that this policy would have cost roughly

ISBN: 9780542711527Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017418
Economics, History.

Essays measuring dollar-fatality tradeoffs and other human costs of war in World War II and Vietnam.
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520 $a This dissertation consists of three essays measuring human costs associated with military actions. Chapter 1 applies the economic concept of the value of a statistical life to the field of national defense. Using a unique battle-level dataset, I measure the value that the United States government placed on soldiers' lives in World War II. Tank-intensive units were expensive in dollars, but troop-intensive units put more human targets on the battlefield. I find that, holding mission accomplishment constant, the Army could have reduced fatalities by increasing its use of tanks and decreasing its use of ground troops. While imprecise, my preferred estimates suggest that this policy would have cost roughly $1 million per life saved in 2003 dollars. This figure is similar to estimates of the 1940s-era private value of life, indicating that the government's valuation was roughly efficient.
520 $a In Chapter 2, I measure the willingness to pay to avoid military service among young men in the Vietnam Era. I compare the Vietnam draft's effects on college attendance with tuition's effects on college attendance. I then measure how much tuition would have to be lowered to generate the same increase in schooling as the Vietnam draft generated. Through this comparison, I express in dollar units young men's willingness to pay to avoid military service. In 2003 dollars, I estimate that young men were willing to pay roughly $1 0,000 to $3 5,000 to avoid being drafted. Fatality risk is one of many reasons why young men avoided the draft. By assuming that fatality risk was the only reason for avoiding the draft, I also obtain an upper bound for the value of a statistical life.
520 $a In Chapter 3, I use the Vietnam draft lottery as a natural experiment to measure the effects of military service on incarcerations. For some cohorts, I find that the incarceration rate is slightly higher than average among men whose lottery numbers were called during Vietnam. In general, however, the Vietnam draft's effects on incarcerations appear to have been small and insignificant, even after adjusting for the draft's effects on education.
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