Federal Military Pensions in the United States

Glasson, William H.; Kinley, David

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“…As discussed by Glasson (1918), pensions for Revolutionary War veterans at first were relatively small, limited primarily to officers but also some others with service-related disabilities. The service-pension act of 1818, originally suggested by the Monroe Administration as a response to perceived need, expanded benefits massively and unexpectedly.…”

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“…Spending on Revolutionary War veterans and their survivors fluctuated but remained high until diminishing rapidly after 1850, some 67 years after the end of the conflict. The wars with Britain and Mexico similarly resulted in large outlays with long right tails, but it was not until the General Law pension system of 1862 and subsequent legislation was passed that spending expanded greatly (Glasson, 1918; Linares, 2001). …”

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“… 22 For the Revolutionary War cohort, I distribute nominal dollars across years according to amounts reported for several non-consecutive years by Glasson (1918), and then after 1840 according to the diminution pattern of spending on veterans of the War of 1812, shifted 32 years earlier in time. The total sum of nominal dollars I set a small amount of undistributed spending on veterans of the War 1812 as occurring in 1871, the last year before which annual spending is reported.…”

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U.S. war costs: Two parts temporary, one part permanent

Edwards

2014

Journal of Public Economics

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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. But 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 budgetary costs associated with U.S. wars is long-lived. One third to one half of the total present value of historical war costs are benefits distributed over the remaining life spans of veterans and their dependents. Even thirty years after the end of hostilities, typically half of all benefits remain to be paid. Estimates of the costs of injuries and deaths suggest that the private burden of war borne by survivors, namely the uncompensated costs of service-related injuries, are also large and long-lived.

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U.S. war costs: Two parts temporary, one part permanent

Edwards

2014

Journal of Public Economics

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“…The index approach was originally inspired by the work of medical examiners and physicians who granted pensions to American Civil War veterans in the late nineteenth century based on the veterans' degrees of disability. 7 The method used here involves a multiattribute system first developed in the 1970s to assess health aspects of the quality of life. 8 For this research, one aspect of health status (health aspects of quality of life as opposed to length of life) was determined from the scores on seven skeletal attributes of health: stature inferred from long-bone lengths; signs of disrupted dental development (linear enamel hypoplasias); signs of anemia (porotic hyperostosis and cribra orbitalia); dental pathology (caries, antemortem tooth loss, abscesses); lesions associated with skeletal infections; degenerative joint disease; and trauma (fractures and weapon wounds).…”

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Skeletal health in the Western Hemisphere from 4000 B.C. to the present

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Evolutionary Anthropology

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“…For the histories of the Union army pension, process of pension applications, and decision of the 15 amount of pensions, see Costa (1998) and Glasson (1918).…”

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Labor Market Status of Older Males in the United States, 1880-1940

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2003

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This paper examines the labor market status of older males in the era of industrialization, focusing on the question of how the extent of pressure toward retirement varied across different occupations, and how it changed over time. A comparison of hazard of retirement across occupations shows that men who had better occupations in terms of economic status and work conditions were less likely to retire than were those with poorer jobs. This result tends to reject the recent view that retirement was more voluntary than forced as early as a century ago. The difficulty faced by older workers in the labor market, as measured by the relative incidence of long-term unemployment, was relatively severe among craftsmen, operatives, and salesmen. In constrast, aged farmers, professionals, managers, and proprietors appear to have fared well in the labor market. The pattern of shifts in the occupational structure that occurred between 1880 and 1940 suggests that industrialization had brought a growth of the sectors in which the pressure toward departure from employment at old ages was relatively strong.

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Federal Military Pensions in the United States

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U.S. war costs: Two parts temporary, one part permanent

U.S. war costs: Two parts temporary, one part permanent

Skeletal health in the Western Hemisphere from 4000 B.C. to the present

Labor Market Status of Older Males in the United States, 1880-1940

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