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May

/26
By Research, sweden No Comments

New Study: Effects of selective conscription on the labour market and education: Evidence from Sweden

A new study by Daniel Almén examines Sweden’s selective conscription system and finds that even a smaller, targeted draft can disrupt young men’s civilian lives. Using Sweden’s 2004 military downsizing as a natural experiment, the paper finds that conscription increased short-term unemployment, caused an initial earnings drop, delayed educational enrolment, and produced renewed negative earnings […]
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Apr

/26
By Research, immigration, political No Comments

New Study: Conscription Makes Men More Hostile to Immigration

A new Research Square preprint by Maelle Delouis-Jost argues that compulsory military service may reinforce exclusionary views of national belonging rather than build broad civic solidarity. Using European Social Survey data and a regression discontinuity design across eleven European countries that abolished mandatory conscription between 1961 and 2006, the study finds that men who narrowly […]
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Apr

/26
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New Study: Conscription in Turkey Makes Soldiers Trust Their Own Group More, Not Society at Large

A new Journal of Economic Growth study by Lena Gerling and Arzu Kibris uses Turkey’s conscription system and its long-running civil conflict as a natural experiment to study how battlefield exposure changes trust. The core finding is stark: men exposed to armed conflict during military service became more trusting of their ingroup, but not more […]
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Mar

/26
By Research, south korea, sweden No Comments

Policy Brief: Gender Polarization among South Korean Youth: Determinants, Conscription, and Comparative Insights from Sweden

In a new interesting policy brief of the Institute for Security and Development Policy, Hannah Kim points out the damage to gender relations in South Korea. Among the various structural drivers, male-only conscription in South Korea remains one of the most enduring and polarizing institutions affecting young men. (…) The symbolic weight of conscription has […]
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Finnish Conscripts Served Food More Than a Month Past Its Expiration

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Finnish Conscript Deserted for 448 Days, Was Returned to Barracks, Then Disappeared Again

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