Are There Spillover Effects from the GI Bill? The Mental Health of Wives of Korean War Veterans

Anusha M Vable, Ichiro Kawachi, David Canning, M Maria Glymour, Marcia P Jimenez and S V Subramanian

PLOS ONE, 2016, vol. 11, issue 5, 1-13

Abstract: Background: The Korean War GI Bill provided economic benefits for veterans, thereby potentially improving their health outcomes. However potential spillover effects on veteran wives have not been evaluated. Methods: Data from wives of veterans eligible for the Korean War GI Bill (N = 128) and wives of non-veterans (N = 224) from the Health and Retirement Study were matched on race and coarsened birth year and childhood health using coarsened exact matching. Number of depressive symptoms in 2010 (average age = 78) were assessed using a modified, validated Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale. Regression analyses were stratified into low (mother

Date: 2016
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