Send Me: Racial Selection in Deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan
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Authors
Armey, Laura E.
Berck, Peter
Lipow, Jonathan
Subjects
Military Manpower
OEF
OIF
Deployment
Defense
War
Minorities
OEF
OIF
Deployment
Defense
War
Minorities
Advisors
Date of Issue
2017-03-03
Date
March 1, 2017
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SSRN
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Abstract
Exploiting a database of administrative records for 300,000 members of the US Armed Forces, we find evidence of severe bias in the selection of personnel deployed to serve in Afghanistan and Iraq. Of most concern, we find that African American were far less likely than other service members to have been deployed to serve in combat zones, and were less likely to face intense combat if deployed.
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Working Paper
Description
The article of record as published may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2863615
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Organization
Naval Postgraduate School
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Format
38 p.
Citation
Armey, Laura and Berck, Peter and Lipow, Jonathan, Send Me: Racial Selection in Deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan (March 1, 2017).
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.