TY  - JOUR
AU  - Rockoff,Hugh
TI  - The Changing Role of America's Veterans
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 8595
PY  - 2001
Y2  - November 2001
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w8595
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w8595.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Hugh Rockoff
Department of Economics
75 Hamilton Street
Rutgers University
College Avenue Campus
New Brunswick, NJ  08901-1248
Tel: 609/897-0117
Fax: 732/932-7416
E-Mail: rockoff@fas-econ.rutgers.edu
AB  - This essay provides an historical background for understanding the statistics on veterans that will appear in the millennial edition of the Historical Statistics of the United States. It describes changes in the number of veterans, and in the benefits provided by governments to veterans, from colonial times to the present. It then discusses in broad terms how political and historical forces shaped the form and amount of benefits provided to veterans, and how the programs created for veterans in turn influenced the evolution of other government programs.
ER  -