The Changing Role of America’s Veterans

Hugh Rockoff

Departmental Working Papers from Rutgers University, Department of Economics

Abstract: This essay provides an historical background for understanding the statistics on veterans that will appear in the millennial edition of the Historical Statistics of the United States. It describes changes in the number of veterans, and in the benefits provided by governments to veterans, from colonial times to the present. It then discusses in broad terms how political and historical forces shaped the form and amount of benefits provided to veterans, and how the programs created for veterans in turn influenced the evolution of other government programs.

Keywords: Veterans (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-10-22
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