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Education, earnings, and the ‘Canadian G.I. Bill’

Education, earnings, and the ‘Canadian G.I. Bill’ Canadian Second World War veterans benefited from an extensive educational program similar to the U.S. G.I. Bill. Because of differences in military enlistment rates, however, a much lower fraction of Quebec men were eligible for these benefits than men from other provinces. Building on this fact, we analyse inter‐cohort patterns of education and earnings for English‐speaking men from Ontario, using French‐speaking men from Quebec as a control group. We find that the instrumental variables estimates of the return to schooling are typically as big or bigger than the corresponding OLS estimates. JEL Classification: J24, I21 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue Canadienne D'économique Wiley

Education, earnings, and the ‘Canadian G.I. Bill’

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Wiley
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Copyright © 2001 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
ISSN
0008-4085
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1540-5982
DOI
10.1111/0008-4085.00077
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Abstract

Canadian Second World War veterans benefited from an extensive educational program similar to the U.S. G.I. Bill. Because of differences in military enlistment rates, however, a much lower fraction of Quebec men were eligible for these benefits than men from other provinces. Building on this fact, we analyse inter‐cohort patterns of education and earnings for English‐speaking men from Ontario, using French‐speaking men from Quebec as a control group. We find that the instrumental variables estimates of the return to schooling are typically as big or bigger than the corresponding OLS estimates. JEL Classification: J24, I21

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Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue Canadienne D'économique – Wiley

Published: May 1, 2001

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