Schooling and the Vietnam-Era GI Bill: Evidence from the Draft Lottery
Draft-lottery estimates of the consequences of Vietnam-era service using 2000 census data show marked schooling gains for veterans. We argue that these gains can be attributed to Vietnam veterans’ use of the GI Bill rather than draft avoidance behavior. At the same time, draft lottery estimates o...
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American Economic Association
2011
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| Online Erişim: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61798 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6992-8956 |
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| author | Angrist, Joshua Chen, Stacey H. |
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| description | Draft-lottery estimates of the consequences of Vietnam-era service using 2000
census data show marked schooling gains for veterans. We argue that these gains
can be attributed to Vietnam veterans’ use of the GI Bill rather than draft avoidance
behavior. At the same time, draft lottery estimates of the earnings consequences
of Vietnam-era service are close to zero in 2000. These results can be reconciled
by a flattening of the age-earnings profile in middle age and a modest economic
return to the schooling subsidized by the GI Bill. Other long-run consequences of
Vietnam-era service include increased migration and public-sector employment. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/617982022-09-29T18:12:59Z Schooling and the Vietnam-Era GI Bill: Evidence from the Draft Lottery Angrist, Joshua Chen, Stacey H. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics Angrist, Joshua Angrist, Joshua Draft-lottery estimates of the consequences of Vietnam-era service using 2000 census data show marked schooling gains for veterans. We argue that these gains can be attributed to Vietnam veterans’ use of the GI Bill rather than draft avoidance behavior. At the same time, draft lottery estimates of the earnings consequences of Vietnam-era service are close to zero in 2000. These results can be reconciled by a flattening of the age-earnings profile in middle age and a modest economic return to the schooling subsidized by the GI Bill. Other long-run consequences of Vietnam-era service include increased migration and public-sector employment. British Academy National Science Foundation (U.S.) 2011-03-24T19:56:32Z 2011-03-24T19:56:32Z 2010-10 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1945-7782 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61798 Angrist, Joshua D., and Stacey H. Chen. 2011. "Schooling and the Vietnam-Era GI Bill: Evidence from the Draft Lottery." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 3(2): 96–118. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6992-8956 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1257/app.3.2.96 American Economic Journal: Applied Economics Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ application/pdf American Economic Association MIT web domain |
| spellingShingle | Angrist, Joshua Chen, Stacey H. Schooling and the Vietnam-Era GI Bill: Evidence from the Draft Lottery |
| title | Schooling and the Vietnam-Era GI Bill: Evidence from the Draft Lottery |
| title_full | Schooling and the Vietnam-Era GI Bill: Evidence from the Draft Lottery |
| title_fullStr | Schooling and the Vietnam-Era GI Bill: Evidence from the Draft Lottery |
| title_full_unstemmed | Schooling and the Vietnam-Era GI Bill: Evidence from the Draft Lottery |
| title_short | Schooling and the Vietnam-Era GI Bill: Evidence from the Draft Lottery |
| title_sort | schooling and the vietnam era gi bill evidence from the draft lottery |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61798 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6992-8956 |
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