ness of Veterans Disability Compensation

The long-term consequences of Vietnam-era conscription have been extensively stud-ied but are still changing. Estimates from the 2000 census, reported in Joshua D. Angrist and Stacey H. Chen (2011), sug-gest the large civilian earnings losses doc-umented by Angrist (1990) for the 1970s and early 1980s had faded by 1999. At the same time, researchers have noted sharp re-cent growth in the number of Vietnam-era veterans receiving federal disability trans