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Going to War and Going to College : Did World War II and the G.I. Bill Increase Educational Attainment for Returning Veterans?

Bound, John - 1999

widespread rhetoric about the democratization' of higher education that came with this large pool of students, there is little …

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Closing the Gap or Widening the Divide : The Effects of the G.I. Bill and World War II on the Educational Outcomes of Black Americans

Turner, Sarah E. - 2002

The effects of the G.I. Bill on collegiate attainment may have differed for black and white Americans owing to differential returns to education and differences in opportunities at colleges and universities, with men in the South facing explicitly segregated colleges. The empirical evidence...

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Raising State Minimum Wages, Lowering Community College Enrollment

Schanzenbach, Diane Whitmore; Turner, Julia A.; Turner, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

institutional data on college enrollment and program completion, we find that enrollment falls markedly among students at public two …-year institutions in response to increases in the minimum wage. The largest enrollment effects are seen for those students who are … of students who are unlikely to have been diverted from degree attainment …

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