A RANDOM RATIONING MECHANISM WHICH REDUCES THE RISKS OF NO SON LEFT AT HOME
Lotteries can be used to meet shortages in military‐manpower‐demanding situations before and during a large‐scale war. By developing a new lottery mechanism that is fair in that everyone has the same success rate, the approach adopted in this paper is able to outperform
the traditional lottery by generating extra rents in such a way that brothers or similar close family members can choose to maximize the chance that at least one person stays home, thereby reducing social cost. We use 2010 data for three war hot zones – namely, South Korea, Colombia
and Taiwan – as examples.
Keywords: D45; D7; H42; Interdependent preferences; Large‐scale war; Military manpower; Nonmarket rationing mechanisms; Rationing lottery; The Vietnam lotteries
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: Department of Applied Economics,National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung 40246, Taiwan
Publication date: 01 June 2011
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