Conscription and Crime: Evidence from the Argentine Draft Lottery

We estimate the causal effect of mandatory participation in military service on individuals' subsequent involvement in criminal activities. To identify this causal effect, we exploit the random assignment of young men to conscription in Argentina through a draft lottery. Using a dataset that in...

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Autores principales: Galiani, Sebastián, Rossi, Martín A., Schargrodsky, Ernesto
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Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei 2025
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Crime
Delincuencia
Delinquency
Prevención del crimen
Crime Prevention
Acceso en línea:https://repositorio.utdt.edu/handle/20.500.13098/13360
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spelling I57-R163-20.500.13098-133602025-04-07T23:40:16Z Conscription and Crime: Evidence from the Argentine Draft Lottery Galiani, Sebastián Rossi, Martín A. Schargrodsky, Ernesto Crime Crime Delincuencia Delinquency Prevención del crimen Crime Prevention We estimate the causal effect of mandatory participation in military service on individuals' subsequent involvement in criminal activities. To identify this causal effect, we exploit the random assignment of young men to conscription in Argentina through a draft lottery. Using a dataset that includes draft eligibility, participation in military service, and criminal records, we find that conscription increases the likelihood of developing a criminal record. The effects are significant not only for cohorts that provided military service during wartime, but also for those that served during peacetime. Our results do not support the introduction of conscription for anti-crime purposes. Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei 2025-04-04T22:14:06Z 2009-12-29 info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper https://repositorio.utdt.edu/handle/20.500.13098/13360 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/deed.es 37 p. application/pdf application/pdf
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topic Crime
Crime
Delincuencia
Delinquency
Prevención del crimen
Crime Prevention
spellingShingle Crime
Crime
Delincuencia
Delinquency
Prevención del crimen
Crime Prevention
Galiani, Sebastián
Rossi, Martín A.
Schargrodsky, Ernesto
Conscription and Crime: Evidence from the Argentine Draft Lottery
topic_facet Crime
Crime
Delincuencia
Delinquency
Prevención del crimen
Crime Prevention
description We estimate the causal effect of mandatory participation in military service on individuals' subsequent involvement in criminal activities. To identify this causal effect, we exploit the random assignment of young men to conscription in Argentina through a draft lottery. Using a dataset that includes draft eligibility, participation in military service, and criminal records, we find that conscription increases the likelihood of developing a criminal record. The effects are significant not only for cohorts that provided military service during wartime, but also for those that served during peacetime. Our results do not support the introduction of conscription for anti-crime purposes.
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author Galiani, Sebastián
Rossi, Martín A.
Schargrodsky, Ernesto
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Rossi, Martín A.
Schargrodsky, Ernesto
author_sort Galiani, Sebastián
title Conscription and Crime: Evidence from the Argentine Draft Lottery
title_short Conscription and Crime: Evidence from the Argentine Draft Lottery
title_full Conscription and Crime: Evidence from the Argentine Draft Lottery
title_fullStr Conscription and Crime: Evidence from the Argentine Draft Lottery
title_full_unstemmed Conscription and Crime: Evidence from the Argentine Draft Lottery
title_sort conscription and crime: evidence from the argentine draft lottery
publisher Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
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