| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w22393 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 22393 |
| The Effect of Vietnam-Era Conscription and Genetic Potential for Educational Attainment on Schooling Outcomes | |
| Lauren L. Schmitz; Dalton Conley | |
| 发表日期 | 2016-07-11 |
| 出版年 | 2016 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This study examines whether draft-lottery estimates of the causal effect of Vietnam-era military service on schooling vary by genetic propensity toward educational attainment. To capture the complex genetic architecture that underlies the bio-developmental pathways behavioral traits and evoked environments associated with educational attainment, we construct a polygenic score (PGS) for the Vietnam-era cohort in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) that aggregates thousands of individual loci across the human genome, weighted by effect sizes derived from a recent genome-wide association study (GWAS) for years of education. Our findings suggest veterans with below average PGSs for educational attainment completed fewer years of schooling than comparable non-veterans with the same PGS, primarily due to fewer years of college education. On the other hand, we do not find any difference in the educational attainment of veterans and non-veterans with above average PGSs. Results show that public policies and exogenous environments may induce heterogeneous treatment effects by genetic disposition. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Education ; Labor Economics |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w22393 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/580066 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Lauren L. Schmitz,Dalton Conley. The Effect of Vietnam-Era Conscription and Genetic Potential for Educational Attainment on Schooling Outcomes. 2016. |
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| w22393.pdf（771KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
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