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Title: Schooling and the Armed Forces Qualifying Test: Evidence from School-Entry Laws
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Cascio, Elizabeth Ulrich Lewis, Ethan Gatewood |
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Schooling and the Armed Forces Qualifying Test: Evidence from School-Entry Laws The Journal of Human Resources 41,2 (Spring 2006): 294-318. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/40057277 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Keyword(s): Age at School Entry; Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Ethnic Differences; High School; Minorities; Racial Differences; School Entry/Readiness; Schooling; State-Level Data/Policy How much can late schooling investments close racial and ethnic skill gaps? We investigate this question by exploiting the large differences in completed schooling that arise among teenagers with birthdays near school-entry cutoff dates. We estimate that an additional year of high school raises the Armed Forces Qualifying Test (AFQT) scores of minorities in the NLSY79 by 0.31 to 0.32 standard deviations. These estimates imply that closing existing racial and ethnic gaps in schooling could close skill gaps by between 25 and 50 percent. Our approach also uncovers a significant direct effect of season of birth on test scores, suggesting that previous estimates using season of birth as an instrument for schooling are biased. |
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Cascio, Elizabeth Ulrich and Ethan Gatewood Lewis. "Schooling and the Armed Forces Qualifying Test: Evidence from School-Entry Laws." The Journal of Human Resources 41,2 (Spring 2006): 294-318.
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