• DOI:10.1111/0008-4085.00077
• Corpus ID: 154642103

Education, Earnings, and the "Canadian G.I. Bill"

@inproceedings{Lemieux1998EducationEA,
  title={Education, Earnings, and the "Canadian G.I. Bill"},
  author={Thomas Lemieux and David Card},
  year={1998}
}

• T. Lemieux, David Card
• Published 1 September 1998
• Economics

Canadian Second World War veterans benefited from an extensive educational program similar to the U.S. G.I. Bill. Because of differences in military enlistment rates, however, a much lower fraction of Quebec men were eligible for these benefits than men from other provinces. Building on this fact, we analyse inter-cohort patterns of education and earnings for English-speaking men from Ontario, using French-speaking men from Quebec as a control group. We find that the instrumental variables estimates of the return to schooling are typically as big or bigger than the corresponding OLS estimates.