Race and Ethnicity Matter: Heterogeneous Effects of the Post-9/11 GI Bill on Veterans’ College Enrollments

Joaquín Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba () and David Goes ()
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Joaquín Alfredo-Angel Rubalcaba: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
David Goes: University of New Mexico

Journal of Economics, Race, and Policy, 2021, vol. 4, issue 1, No 2, 15-33

Abstract: Abstract The Post-9/11 GI Bill provided a generous increase in veterans’ education benefits. Using the Current Population Survey and American Community Survey, this paper examines the impact of the Post-9/11 GI Bill on college enrollments among Black and Hispanic veterans. Evidence from a difference-in-difference evaluation reveals the Post-9/11 GI Bill increased veteran college enrollments by 4 percentage points, while disproportionately increasing college enrollments for Black veterans by 4.7 percentage points. The evidence reported in this study suggests military service and veterans’ education benefits play a positive role in the efforts to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in higher education.

Keywords: Higher education; Education; Government policy; Race and ethnicity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/s41996-019-00048-8

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