The end of World War II brought a flood of returning veterans to America's colleges and universities. Yet, despite … evidence about the question of whether military service, combined with the availability of post-war educational benefits, led … structure of the draft during the World War II period and the changing manpower requirements in the armed forces to address the …

The negative long-term effects of World War II on those directly exposed to it are well documented, but there is no … intergenerational effects of World War II in terms of educational attainments. We focus on parent-children dyads in which parents were … born between 1926 and 1949, and show two things. First, parents who suffered the war, that is, were exposed to major war …