The Educational Legacy of the Greatest Generation: Paternal Military Service and Baby Boomer Educational Progress
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Keywords
Military service; World War II; Korean War; Education; Human capital;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- I20 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - General
- J62 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Job, Occupational and Intergenerational Mobility; Promotion
- N32 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - U.S.; Canada: 1913-
- N42 - Economic History - - Government, War, Law, International Relations, and Regulation - - - U.S.; Canada: 1913-
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-HIS-2013-10-18 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
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