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Estimating the Veteran Effect with Endogenous Schooling When Instruments are Potentially Weak
2009
Social Science Research Network
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
doi:10.2139/ssrn.1395384
fatcat:mauimtflcjf3rltvx6lk7xhwp4