these channels are likely to affect civilian earnings. New estimates of the effects of military service using Vietnam … substantial earnings losses for white Vietnam veterans in the 1970s and 1980s. The recent estimates also point to a marked … increase in post-secondary schooling that appears to be attributable to the Vietnam-era GI Bill. Seen through the lens of a …

Draft lottery number assignment during the Vietnam era provides a natural experiment to examine the effects of military …

education, we make use of data on compulsory schooling laws and child labour laws as well as conscription risk in the Vietnam …