Veterans’ Labor Force Participation: What Role Does the VA’s Disability Compensation Program Play?

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The authors thank Erzo F. P. Luttmer, Elizabeth Bass, Heidi Golding, and seminar participants at the ASSA meetings, the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and Stanford University for helpful comments. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. NBER working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes. They have not been peerreviewed or been subject to the review by the NBER Board of Directors that accompanies official NBER publications.

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“…See, for example, Angrist (1990); Dobkin and Shabani (2009);Angrist, Chen, and Frandsen (2010) ;Duggan, Rosenheck, and Singleton (2010); Angrist and Chen (2011);Angrist, Chen, and Song, (2011);Autor, Duggan, and Lyle (2011);Lindo and Stoecker (2014); Coile, Duggan, and Guo (2015); and Autor, Duggan, Greenberg, and Lyle (2015). Parental inputs have traditionally been linked to children's outcomes (e.g., Becker and Tomes, 1976, 1979, and 1986Becker, 1981;Cunha, Heckman, and Schennach, 2010).…”