Education, earnings, and the "Canadian G.I. Bill"

Thomas Lemieux and David Card

Canadian Journal of Economics, 2001, vol. 34, issue 2, 313-344

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-codes: I21 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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