TY  - JOUR
AU  - Turner,Sarah E.
AU  - Bound,John
TI  - Closing the Gap or Widening the Divide: The Effects of the G.I. Bill and World War II on the Educational Outcomes of Black Americans
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 9044
PY  - 2002
Y2  - July 2002
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w9044
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w9044.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Sarah Turner
Department of Economics
University of Virginia
249 Ruffner Hall
Charlottesville, VA  22903-2495
Tel: 434/924-7857
Fax: 434/924-1384
E-Mail: sturner@virginia.edu

John Bound
Department of Economics
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1220
Tel: 734/998-7149
Fax: 734/998-7415
E-Mail: jbound@umich.edu
M2  - featured in NBER digest on 2002-12-01
AB  - The effects of the G.I. Bill on collegiate attainment may have differed for black and white Americans owing to differential returns to education and differences in opportunities at colleges and universities, with men in the South facing explicitly segregated colleges. The empirical evidence suggests that World War II and the availability of G.I. benefits had a substantial and positive impact on the educational attainment of white men and black men born outside the South.  However, for those black veterans likely to be limited to the South in their educational choices, the G.I. Bill had little effect on collegiate outcomes, resulting in the exacerbation of the educational differences between black and white men from southern states.
ER  -