Replication data for: Lifetime Earnings and the Vietnam Era Draft Lottery: Evidence from Social Security Administrative Records

The randomly assigned risk of induction generated by the draft lottery is used to construct estimates of the effect of veteran status on civilian earnings. These estimates are not biased by the fact that certain types of men are more likely than others to service in the military. Social Security administrative records indicate that in the early 1980s, long after their service in Vietnam was ended, the earnings of white veterans were approximately 15 percent less than the earnings of comparable nonveterans.

本研究借助征兵抽签（draft lottery）生成的随机入伍风险分配结果，构建退伍军人身份对平民收入影响的效应估计。该估计不会因特定群体男性参军概率高于其他群体这一事实而产生估计偏差。社会保障行政记录数据显示，在越南服役结束多年后的20世纪80年代初，白人退伍军人的收入较具备可比特征的非退伍军人低约15%。