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Title: Military Service and Educational Attainment in the All-Volunteer Era
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Teachman, Jay D. |
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Military Service and Educational Attainment in the All-Volunteer Era Sociology of Education 80,4 (October 2007): 359-374. Also: http://soe.sagepub.com/content/80/4/359.abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Sociological Association Keyword(s): All-Volunteer Force (AVF); Armed Forces Qualifications Test (AFQT); Educational Attainment; Military Recruitment; Military Service; Racial Studies; Veterans Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This article uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to examine the relationship between service in the All Volunteer Force (AVF) military and educational attainment. Through the use of fixed-effects estimators, the author generated estimates of the effect of military service on the highest grade of school completed by men that are purged of the confounding effects of constant unmeasured household-specific and person-specific variables. He also implemented another series of controls for selectivity involving potential time-varying factors by comparing active-duty veterans to reserve-duty veterans and nonveterans who at some time indicated their intentions to enter the military. The results indicate that there is considerable diversity in the effect of military service among veterans according to such variables as education prior to service, score on the Armed Forces Qualification Test, branch of service, length of service, age at entry into the military, and race. Overall, however, veterans of the AVF receive less education than their civilian counterparts, and this educational gap tends to grow over time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] Copyright of Sociology of Education is the property of American Sociological Association and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts) |
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Teachman, Jay D. "Military Service and Educational Attainment in the All-Volunteer Era." Sociology of Education 80,4 (October 2007): 359-374.
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