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Hard lessons: combat deployment and veteran interest in higher education

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  • Laura E. Armey
  • Jonathan Lipow

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Over 2.5 million Americans served in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. In this short article, we consider the impact of these experiences on their future welfare. Specifically, we ask if those who served in Afghanistan and Iraq are more or less likely to exploit their GI Bill benefits in order to pursue higher education than service members who did not directly participate in these conflicts. We exploit a comprehensive administrative dataset that the US Armed Forces’ Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) provided to us. We find across models that deployment to Afghanistan or Iraq significantly increases the likelihood that veterans will take advantage of their educational benefits, but that exposure to violent combat significantly decreases it.

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  • Laura E. Armey & Jonathan Lipow, 2016. "Hard lessons: combat deployment and veteran interest in higher education," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 23(11), pages 768-772, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:23:y:2016:i:11:p:768-772
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2015.1105918
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    1. Ackerman, Adam, 2022. "The effect of combat exposure on sexually transmitted diseases," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 46(C).
    2. Bäckström, Peter & Hanes, Niklas, 2023. "The Impact of Peacekeeping on Post-Deployment Earnings for Swedish Veterans," Umeå Economic Studies 1010, Umeå University, Department of Economics.
    3. Laura Armey & Thomas J. Kniesner & John D. Leeth & Ryan Sullivan, 2022. "Combat, casualties, and compensation: Evidence from Iraq and Afghanistan," Contemporary Economic Policy, Western Economic Association International, vol. 40(1), pages 66-82, January.
    4. Ackerman, Adam & Porter, Ben, 2022. "The effect of combat exposure on financial problems," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 79(C), pages 241-257.

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