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Schooling and the Armed Forces Qualifying Test: Evidence from School-Entry Laws.

How much can late schooling investments close racial and ethnic skill gaps? We investigate this question by exploiting the large differences in completed schooling that arise among teenagers with birthdays near school-entry cutoff dates. We estimate that an additional year of high school raises th...

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Published in:Journal of Human Resources Vol. 41; no. 2; pp. 294 - 319
Main Authors: Cascio, Elizabeth U., Lewis, Ethan G.
Format: Article
Published: University of Wisconsin Press Spring2006
Subjects:
School entrance age
United States armed forces > Examinations
Employment & education
Mathematical models
Educational attainment
Armed forces
Education
High school dropouts
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