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Book/Printed Material Analysis of financial support to the surviving spouses and children of casualties in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars

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  • Analysis of financial support to the surviving spouses and children of casualties in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars

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.

Names

  • Miller, Amalia R.
  • Heaton, Paul, 1978-
  • Loughran, David S., 1969-
  • United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense
  • National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)
  • Rand Corporation

Created / Published

  • Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, 2012.

Contents

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

Headings

  • -  Afghan War, 2001-2021--Casualties--United States
  • -  Iraq War, 2003-2011--Casualties--United States
  • -  Survivors' benefits--United States

Notes

  • -  "National Defense Research Institute."
  • -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 35-36).
  • -  Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense W74V8H-06-C-0002
  • -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

  • 1 electronic resource (xv, 36 pages)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • UB403

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021760972

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Chicago citation style:

Miller, Amalia R, Paul Heaton, David S Loughran, United States Department Of Defense. Office Of The Secretary Of Defense, U.S National Defense Research Institute, and Rand Corporation. Analysis of financial support to the surviving spouses and children of casualties in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2012. Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2021760972/.

APA citation style:

Miller, A. R., Heaton, P., Loughran, D. S., United States Department Of Defense. Office Of The Secretary Of Defense, National Defense Research Institute, U. S. & Rand Corporation. (2012) Analysis of financial support to the surviving spouses and children of casualties in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2021760972/.

MLA citation style:

Miller, Amalia R, et al. Analysis of financial support to the surviving spouses and children of casualties in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2012. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2021760972/>.