Going to College to Avoid the Draft: The Unintended Legacy of the Vietnam War
By David Card, Thomas Lemieux. 2001
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Subfields: Demography, Education
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Citations in the corpus
- The Macroeconomic Implications of Rising Wage Inequality in the United States (2008, unknown): “Since one cannot separately identify the variance of the genuine transitory shock from the variance of measurement error, we assume that the variance of measurement error is time-invariant and use an external estimate.(19) Based on the PSID Validation Study for 1982 and 1986, French (2002) finds tha”
- The Reversal of Gender Inequalities in Higher Education (2008, background): “In the United States, 4% to 6% of male participation in higher education could be attributed to draft-dodging (Card and Lemieux, 2001), such that women would have caught up more quickly without the secondary effect of the war.”
- Making the grade: a history of the A–F marking scheme (2014, unknown): “A. (1984) An economic model of faculty grading practices.”
- Vive la Révolution! Long‐Term Educational Returns of 1968 to the Angry Students (2008, background): “4 Card and Lemieux (2001) focus on the effect of a program designed to facilitate the further education of post–World War II veterans in Canada.”
- The Labor Market Impacts of Technological Change: From Unbridled Enthusiasm to Qualified Optimism to Vast Uncertainty (2022, background): “Conversely, when the supply of college-educated workers surges, as occurred during the 1970s, for example, when American men could defer the Vietnam draft by enrolling in college (Card and Lemieux, 2001b), earnings inequality between college and non-college workers falls.”
- The Health Effects of Military Service: Evidence from the Vietnam Draft (2009, background): “See Angrist (1990), Angrist and Krueger (1992), and Card and Lemieux (2001).”