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- Title
THE EDUCATIONAL COST OF MILITARY SERVICE IN THE 1960'S.
- Authors
Cohen, Jere; Segal, David R.; Temme, Lloyd V.
- Abstract
For a sample of 2,485 Midwestern males who attended high school in the late 1950s, military service had a negative effect on educational attainment. Although it did not reduce officers' education, it reduced the educational attainment of enlisted men relative to that of their peers who did not serve. The positive educational contribution of the G.I. Bill, which in earlier periods had produced higher levels of education among veterans than non-veterans, failed to offset the negative educational impact of the overall experience of military service in an era when non-veterans had access to means of financing higher education that were not tied to military service.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MILITARY science; MILITARY education; ACADEMIC achievement; HIGHER education finance; FINANCE
- Publication
Journal of Political & Military Sociology, 1986, Vol 14, Issue 2, p303
- ISSN
0047-2697
- Publication type
Article