| 来源类型 | Working Paper
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| 规范类型 | 报告
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| DOI | 10.3386/w16108
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| 来源ID | Working Paper 16108
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| U.S. War Costs: Two Parts Temporary, One Part Permanent |
| Ryan D. Edwards
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| 发表日期 | 2010-06-17
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| 出版年 | 2010
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Military spending, fatalities, and the destruction of capital, all of which are immediately felt and are often large, are the most overt costs of war. They are also relatively short-lived. The costs of war borne by combatants and their caretakers, which includes families, communities, and the modern welfare state, tend instead to be lifelong. In this paper I show that a significant component of the public costs associated with U.S. wars are long-lived. One third to one half of the total present value of historical war costs have been absorbed by benefits distributed over the remaining life spans of veterans and their dependents. The half-life of these benefits has averaged more than 30 years following the end of hostilities. Estimates of the value of injuries and deaths, while uncertain, suggest that the private burden of war borne by survivors, namely the uncompensated costs of service-related injuries, are also large and long-lived. |
| 主题 | Public Economics
; National Fiscal Issues
; Labor Economics
; Demography and Aging
; History
; Other History
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| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w16108
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| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/573782
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