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Estimating the veteran effect with endogenous schooling when instruments are potentially weak

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.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 4203

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Thema
Veteran effect
weak instruments
Einkommen
Bildungsertrag
Soldaten
Wehrdienst
USA

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Chaudhuri, Saraswata
Rose, Elaina
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2009

Handle
URN
urn:nbn:de:101:1-20090615185
Letzte Aktualisierung
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Chaudhuri, Saraswata
  • Rose, Elaina
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2009

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