FAMILY & SOCIOECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF MILITARY SERVICE

使用来自四个大型调查工作的数据，这里描述的研究 提供对服兵役的决定因素及其 随之而来的社会经济和家庭相关后果。特例 注意排序和时序变化 通过兵役引入的(例如，教育模式的改变， 家庭和职业)以及这些变化如何相互关联和累积 (例如，家庭结果的变化如何影响随后的职业 造诣)。拟议中的工作超越了先前的研究，通过 假设一组由先前存在的背景所依据的因果序列 差异和服兵役会影响随后的人生模式。 具体而言，将完成以下工作：1)以下决定因素 在涵盖战争的一段时间内，将对兵役进行审查 在越南和所有志愿军中，2)服兵役的影响 关于生命中许多重要事件的发生和时机 使用纵向数据和适当的动态统计进行检查 模型，3)当前兵役的影响将与 以前服兵役，4)越南对其他军队的影响 将对服务进行评估，以及5)进入 军事(根据草案自愿)和进入的时间将是 已经确定了。 这项研究将提供有关结构的有价值的信息 退伍军人的社会经济和家庭事业及其后果。它 也将有可能检查决定因素和 服兵役的后果。这是给出的一个重要目标 近二十年来军事环境的变化 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.