Do Veterans Face Disparities in Higher Education, Health, and Housing?

Rajashri Chakrabarti, Dan Garcia and Maxim Pinkovskiy

No 20230525a, Liberty Street Economics from Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Abstract: Veterans are an understudied group that forms an important part of the fabric of American society and that constitutes a significant segment of the population. In the first post of this two-part series, we will investigate how the outcomes of veteran men–in educational attainment, health, and housing–differ from those of comparable men who did not serve in the military. Looking only at men, for reasons described below, we find that relative to nonveteran men with a high school degree and a similar distribution of demographic and geographic characteristics, veterans are 7 percentage points less likely to have a college degree and are over 50 percent more likely to experience a disability. Veterans are also somewhat likelier to rent a home than to own and, as renters, pay a lower average rent, suggesting they experience lower quality housing or live in worse neighborhoods.

Keywords: veterans; disability; education; propensity score weighting; inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D63 J1 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-05-25
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