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War Is Not Compulsory: Let\u27s Choose Peace [PDF]
, 2017 A pamphlet calling for people to join the efforts of the End Conscription Campaign.https://digitalcommons.colum.edu/ecc/1009/thumbnail ...
End Conscription Campaign
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Trauma, Testimony and Lower Secondary Holocaust Education in Rywka Lipszyc's and Otto Wolf's Diaries
Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines how Holocaust‐related trauma is represented in two diaries written by Jewish adolescents during the Second World War: Rywka Lipszyc's diary and Otto Wolf's diary. The article combines a thematically guided close reading of the diaries with a didactic discussion of their possible use in lower secondary literary education ...
Milan Mašát
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The G.I. Bill and underemployment
Contemporary Economic Policy, EarlyView.Abstract Recent veteran college graduates report experiencing high levels of underemployment, which have a negative impact on their well‐being and hinder their successful transition to civilian life. This paper quantifies the scope of this problem by estimating the impact of World War II, Vietnam War, and Post‐9/11 G.I.
Ciprian Domnisoru
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Economic Burden of Overweight and Obesity in Sweden: Current Estimates and Future Projections
Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aims Overweight and obesity are major public health challenges and well‐established risk factors for cardiovascular disease, cancer and premature mortality. We estimated the economic burden of overweight and obesity in Sweden in 2023 and projected the future economic burden in 2040 under alternative scenarios of increasing prevalence ...
Adam Fridhammar +5 more
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Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Aims Evaluating the association between polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS), traditionally termed polycystic ovary syndrome, and the broad spectrum of gestational dysglycemia in a large, universally screened population. Materials and Methods This retrospective cohort study used routinely collected data linked from Israeli military ...
Yulia Balmakov +14 more
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The sequence of life events of Russian men serving and not serving in the military
Демографическое обозрение, 2017 Using two representative Russian surveys – “Person, Family, Society” (used for building research models) and “Russian monitoring of the economic condition and health of the population” (for auxiliary, descriptive analysis) – we analysed the differences ...
Ekaterina Mitrofanova, Alyona Artamonova
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The fiscal role of conscription in the US World War II effort [PDF]
I consider the role of conscription as a fiscal shock absorber in times of war. Conscription of military personnel allows the fiscal authority to minimize wartime government expenditure, and hence, minimize tax distortions associated with war finance.
Siu, Henry
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Electoral impact of the rental market: evidence from Israel
Economica, EarlyView.Abstract This paper studies housing tenure and voting patterns during the period from July 2013 to July 2023 in Israel, where the rental share of housing units increased from 24% to 29%, and six national elections for parliament took place. Using detailed neighbourhood panel data on rental units share and electoral outcomes, I find that switching a ...
Yael Elster
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Does Military Draft Discourage Enrollment in Higher Education? Evidence from OECD Countries [PDF]
Using data from 1960-2000 for OECD countries, we analyze the impact of compulsory military service on the demand for higher education, measured by students enrolled in tertiary education as a share of the working-age population.
Wagener, Andreas +2 more
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Regional and local divergence in welfare provision in England and Wales, 1776–1815
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract This article uses the township‐level data on welfare expenditure and provision gathered by parish officers in England and Wales at three points between 1776 and 1815 to illuminate regional and local differences during the period. These data have been linked to geographic information system (GIS) mapping systems, facilitating the mapping of ...
John Broad
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