Military Service in the Vietnam Era and Educational Attainment
Dados Bibliográficos
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| AFILIAÇÃO(ÕES) | Jay Teachman, Ph.D., is Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington. His main fields of interest are family structure and the well- being of children and the life course consequences of military service. He is currently examining the consequences of military service for the income and educational attainments of men who served from World War II through the All-Volunteer Force. |
| ANO | 2005 |
| TIPO | Artigo |
| PERIÓDICO | Sociology of Education |
| ISSN | 0038-0407 |
| E-ISSN | 1939-8573 |
| EDITORA | Annual Reviews (United States) |
| DOI | 10.1177/003804070507800103 |
| CITAÇÕES | 11 |
| ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
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Resumo
Using longitudinal data from the National Longitudinal Study of Young Men for 1966–81, this study examined the effect of military service on the highest grade of schooling completed. Fixed-effects estimators were used to generate estimates of the effect of military service on the schooling trajectories of veterans and nonveterans that are independent of unmeasured household-specific and person-specific factors that may bias the relationship. The results indicate that veterans educational profiles differ from those of nonveterans. The veteran-nonveteran difference in schooling is substantial at the time veterans are discharged from the military (on average, a deficit of about one year) but diminishes thereafter (on average, to about a half year). The results also indicate that the effect of veteran status varies according to draft status, schooling prior to military service, and age at entry into the military but not race.