You Can’t Handle The Truth: The Effects Of The Post-9/11 Gi Bill On Higher Education And Earnings

We are grateful for assistance from the U.S. Army Office of Economic and Manpower Analysis, especially Luke Gallagher. We thank participants at the 2021 AEA Annual Meetings, NBER Summer Institute 2019 (Labor Studies), 2018 National Tax Association Annual Meetings, CESifo Area Conference on the Economics of Education, Office of Tax Analysis (Treasury), University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, George Washington University, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Boston College, and Harvard for helpful comments. Sacerdote thanks the National Science Foundation and Smith Richardson Foundation for generous support. Barr acknowledges funding from a National Academy of Education / Spencer Post-doctoral Fellowship and the Upjohn Institute. The views expressed in this paper are those of the authors and do not represent the official views of the United States Military Academy, the Department of the Army, the Department of Defense, or the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Corresponding author: Bruce Sacerdote, Dartmouth College, 6106 Rockefeller Hall, Hanover NH, 03755. Phone: 603 646 2121. Email: bruce.sacerdote@dartmouth.edu. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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