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Title: Estimating the Veteran Effect with Endogenous Schooling When Instruments are Potentially Weak
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1. Chaudhuri, Saraswata
Rose, Elaina
Estimating the Veteran Effect with Endogenous Schooling When Instruments are Potentially Weak
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4203, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), June 2009
Cohort(s): Young Men
Publisher: Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
Keyword(s): Earnings; Military Draft; Military Service; Schooling; Veterans

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Instrumental variables estimates of the effect of military service on subsequent civilian earnings either omit schooling or treat it as exogenous. In a more general setting that also allows for the treatment of schooling as endogenous, we estimate the veteran effect for men who were born between 1944 and 1952 and thus reached draft age during the Vietnam era. We apply a variety of state-of-the-art econometric techniques to gauge the sensitivity of the estimates to the treatment of schooling. We find a significant veteran penalty.
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Chaudhuri, Saraswata and Elaina Rose. "Estimating the Veteran Effect with Endogenous Schooling When Instruments are Potentially Weak." IZA Discussion Paper No. 4203, Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), June 2009.