The long-term impact of military service on health:: Evidence from world war II and Korean war veterans
The long-term impact of military service on health:: Evidence from world war II and Korean war veterans
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DOI：
10.1257/000282806776157731
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发表时间：
2006-03-01
影响因子：
10.7
通讯作者：
Deschênes, O
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作者：
Bedard, K;Deschênes, O
在H次世界大战和朝鲜战争时期，美军向海外人员免费分发香烟，并在国内军事基地提供低成本烟草产品。事实上，即使在今天，军方仍继续在其基地出售补贴烟草产品。使用各种工具变量的方法来处理非随机选择到军队和吸烟，我们提供了大量的证据表明，队列较高的军事参与率，随后遭受更多的过早死亡。更重要的是，我们发现，由于心脏病和肺癌而死亡的退伍军人中有很大一部分，35%到79%，可归因于军事诱导的吸烟。
During the World War H 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, we provide substantial evidence that cohorts with higher military participation rates subsequently suffered more premature mortality. More importantly, we show that a large fraction, 35 to 79 percent, of the excess veteran deaths due to heart disease and lung cancer are attributable to military-induced smoking.