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American Economic Review

ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)

Going to College to Avoid the Draft: The Unintended Legacy of the Vietnam War

  • David Card
  • Thomas Lemieux
American Economic Review
vol. 91, no. 2, May 2001
(pp. 97–102)
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Citation

Card, David, and Thomas Lemieux. 2001. "Going to College to Avoid the Draft: The Unintended Legacy of the Vietnam War." American Economic Review 91 (2): 97–102. DOI: 10.1257/aer.91.2.97

JEL Classification

  • H56 National Security and War
  • I21 Analysis of Education
  • J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity