Citation
Cesur, Resul & Sabia, Joseph J. (2016). When war comes home: The effect of combat service on domestic violence. Review of Economics and Statistics. vol. 98 (2) pp. 209-225Abstract
This study is the first to estimate the effect of war service in the Global War on Terrorism on domestic violence. We exploit a natural experiment in overseas deployment assignment among active-duty servicemen by relying on theoretical and empirical evidence that, conditional on military rank and occupation, deployment assignments are orthogonal to the propensity for violence. Our results show that assignment to combat substantially increases the probability of intimate partner violence and child abuse. Descriptive evidence suggests that the effects may be explained in part by the stress- and substance use–related consequences of war.URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1162%2FREST_a_00541Reference Type
Journal ArticleJournal Title
Review of Economics and StatisticsAuthor(s)
Cesur, ResulSabia, Joseph J.