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.

本研究利用征兵抽签所生成的随机入伍征召风险，构建了退伍军人身份对平民收入的影响效应估计。该估计不会因"特定男性群体相较于其他群体更易参军"这一事实而产生估计偏误。社会保障行政记录数据显示，在20世纪80年代初，即越南战争结束许久之后，白人退伍军人的收入较特征匹配的非退伍军人低约15%。