Analysis of financial support to the surviving spouses and children of casualties in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars / Amalia R. Miller, Paul Heaton, David S. Loughran.

By:

Miller, Amalia R. (Amalia Rebecca), 1976- [author.]

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Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780833077943
0833077945
9780833077967
0833077961

Report number: TR-1281-OSDSubject(s): Genre/Form:

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Analysis of financial support to the surviving spouses and children of casualties in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars.DDC classification:

355.1/151/0973 23

LOC classification:

UB403 .M55 2012

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Contents:

Introduction -- Data used in the study -- Empirical model -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusions.

Summary: This study examines how the deaths of service members during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have affected the subsequent labor market earnings of their surviving spouses and the extent to which survivor benefits provided by the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Social Security Administration compensate for lost household earnings. It also assesses the extent to which payments that surviving spouses and children receive compensate for earnings losses attributable to combat deaths. The labor market earnings of households experiencing a combat death in the years following deployment are compared with those of deployed but uninjured service-member households. Because the risk of combat death is likely to be correlated with characteristics of service members that could themselves affect household labor market outcomes (e.g., pay grade, military occupation, risk-taking behavior), the study controlled for a rich array of individual-level characteristics, including labor market outcomes for both service members and spouses prior to deployment. This approach includes potentially unobserved factors that are unique to specific households and fixed over time and increases the likelihood that the results capture the causal effect of combat death on household earnings.

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"Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense."

"National Defense Research Institute."

This study examines how the deaths of service members during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have affected the subsequent labor market earnings of their surviving spouses and the extent to which survivor benefits provided by the Department of Defense, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Social Security Administration compensate for lost household earnings. It also assesses the extent to which payments that surviving spouses and children receive compensate for earnings losses attributable to combat deaths. The labor market earnings of households experiencing a combat death in the years following deployment are compared with those of deployed but uninjured service-member households. Because the risk of combat death is likely to be correlated with characteristics of service members that could themselves affect household labor market outcomes (e.g., pay grade, military occupation, risk-taking behavior), the study controlled for a rich array of individual-level characteristics, including labor market outcomes for both service members and spouses prior to deployment. This approach includes potentially unobserved factors that are unique to specific households and fixed over time and increases the likelihood that the results capture the causal effect of combat death on household earnings.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 35-36).

Introduction -- Data used in the study -- Empirical model -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusions.