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How Militaries Learn: Human Capital, Military Education, and Battlefield Effectiveness (Lexington Books, 2018).

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Why Professionalize? Economic Modernization and Military Professionalism.” Foreign Policy Analysis, vol. 13, no. 4 (October 2017): 854-75.

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I Want You! The Determinants of Military Conscription,” with Victor Asal and Justin Conrad. Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol. 61, no. 7 (August 2017): 1456–81.

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Markets and Manpower: The Political-Economy of Compulsory Military Service,” with Lindsay Cohn. Armed Forces & Society, vol. 43, no. 3 (July 2017): 436–58.

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Other Research Based on Upton Institute Data

Ari, Baris. "Uncrossing the Rubicon: Transitions from Violent Civil Conflict to Peace." PhD diss., University of Essex, 2018.

Chaudry, Suparna, Sabrina Karim, and Matt K. Scroggs. "How leaders’ experiences and rebellion shape military recruitment during civil war." Journal of Peace Research 58, no. 5 (2020): 915-929.

Horowitz, Michael C., and Matthew S. Levendusky. "Drafting support for war: Conscription and mass support for warfare." Journal of Politics 73, no. 2 (2011): 524-534.

Ingesson, Tony, Mårten Lindberg, Johannes Lindvall, and Jan Teorell. "The martial origins of democracy: a global study of military conscription and suffrage extensions since the Napoleonic wars." Democratization 25, no. 4 (2018): 633-651.

Johnson, Paul Lorenzo. "Virtuous shirking: Social identity, military recruitment, and unwillingness to repress." PhD diss., University of California, Davis, 2017.

Konstantinidis, Nikitas. "Military conscription, external security, and income inequality: The missing link." Journal of Theoretical Politics 32, no. 2 (2020): 312-347.

Langlotz, Sarah, and Niklas Potrafke. "Does development aid increase military expenditure?" Journal of Comparative Economics 47, no. 3 (2019): 735-757.

Lichtenheld, Adam G. "Making Migrations: Population Displacement Strategies in Civil Wars." PhD diss., University of California, Berkeley, 2019.

Lutscher, Philipp M. "The More Fragmented the Better?—The Impact of Armed Forces Structure on Defection during Nonviolent Popular Uprisings." International Interactions 42, no. 2 (2016): 350-375.

Margulies, Max Z. "Patrons and personnel: The determinants of military recruitment policies." Security Studies 30 (2021): 354-384.

Obinger, Herbert. "Conscription, the Military, and Welfare State Development." Historical Social Research/Historische Sozialforschung 45, no. 2 (172 (2020): 7-26.

Obinger, Herbert, Klaus Petersen, and Peter Starke, eds. Warfare and welfare: Military conflict and welfare state development in western countries. Oxford University Press, 2018.

Tarabar, Danko, and Joshua C. Hall. "Explaining the worldwide decline in the length of mandatory military service, 1970–2010." Public Choice 168, no. 1 (2016): 55-74.

Toronto, Nathan W. "Military Learning and Evolutions in Warfare in the Modern Era." Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. 2021.

Toronto, Nathan W., and Lindsay P. Cohn. "Conscription and the Politics of Military Recruitment." Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. 2020.

Willardson, Spencer L. "Under the influence Of arms: the foreign policy causes and consequences of arms transfers." PhD diss., University of Iowa, 2013.