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Title: The Educational Legacy of the Greatest Generation: Veteran Status and Children's Educational Attainment
Citation Type: Journal Article
Publication Year: 2011
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Abstract: This paper examines the impact of a father’s World War II military service on the educational attainment of his children. The mechanism linking the two has been identified in the literature establishing positive impacts of parents’ education and homeownership on their children’s educational outcomes. In turn, a World War II veteran’s educational attainment and homeownership status were influenced both by the direct impacts of military service and, as shown in previous studies, by loan guaranty and educational benefits provided in the GI Bill. I use two data sources to tie these strands of literature together. First, I draw a sample of World War II eligible men from the 1960 IPUMS 1 percent sample and examine the impact that fathers’ veteran status had on their children’s grade level. Second, I estimate impacts on high school and college completion using a sample of individuals from the original cohorts of the National Longitudinal Survey.
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Authors: Kimbrough, Gray
Periodical (Full): Journal of Economic History
Issue: 2
Volume: 71
Pages: 498-515
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Population Data Science
Countries: United States