FAMILY & SOCIOECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF MILITARY SERVICE

使用来自四个大型调查工作的数据，本文描述的研究 提供了一个审查的决定因素兵役及其 随后的社会经济和与家庭有关的后果。特别 注意力将集中在顺序和定时变化上 由兵役引入的（例如，教育模式的改变， 家庭和事业）以及这些变化是如何相互关联和累积的 (e.g.,家庭结果的变化如何影响随后的职业生涯 成就）。这项工作超出了先前的研究， 假设一组因果序列， 差异和服兵役影响到以后的生活方式。 具体而言，将完成以下工作：1） 兵役将在涵盖战争期间的一段时间内进行审查 在越南和所有志愿军，2）兵役的影响 许多重要的生命过程事件的发生和时间将 使用纵向数据和适当的动态统计数据进行检查 （3）现行兵役制度的影响将与 4）越南战争对其他国家的影响 服务将被评估，5）进入模式的影响， 军事（自愿，草案）和进入时间将是 确定。 这项研究将提供有价值的信息， 社会经济和家庭事业及其对退伍军人的影响。它 也将有可能审查历史的变化，在决定因素和 服兵役的后果。这是一个重要的目标， 在过去的二十年里，军事环境发生了变化。 的服务.

Using data from four large survey efforts, the research described herein provides an examination of the determinants of military service and its subsequent socioeconomic and family-related consequences. Particular attention wi11 be directed toward sequencing and timing variations introduced by military service (e.g., alterations in patterns of education, family and career) and how such variations are interrelated and cumulative (e.g., how variations in family outcomes affect subsequent career attainments). The work being proposed extends beyond prior research by postulating a set of causal sequences by which preexisting background differences and military service affect subsequent life-course patterns. Specifically, the following will be accomplished: 1) the determinants of military service wi11 be examined over a period of time that covers the war in Vietnam and the all volunteer force, 2) the effects of military service on the occurrence and timing of numerous important life-course events will be examined using longitudinal data and appropriate dynamic statistical models, 3) the effects of current military service will be separated from prior military service, 4) the effects of Vietnam vs. other military service will be assessed, and 5) the effects of mode of entry into the military (voluntarily, by the draft) and timing of entry will be ascertained. The research will provide valuable information on the structure of socioeconomic and family careers and their consequences among veterans. It will also be possible to examine historical shifts in the determinants and consequences of military service. This is an important objective given changes in the past twenty years in the conditions surrounding military service.