Table 7.

The MP Program and Medium-Term Outcomes from WWII Records

	Models	No controls	All controls	Observations	Mean rejected	Percent effect
Panel A. Education
Has exactly eight years of school	Logit	−0.326** [0.137]	−0.206 [0.170]	2,446	0.33	20
Education: left and right censored	Censored regression	0.348* [0.197]	0.249 [0.201]	2,446	10.38	2
Panel B. Anthropometrics Height (cms)	OLS	1.346 [0.827]	1.142 [1.248]	1,844	174.5	1
Weight (pounds)	OLS	3.879* [1.955]	3.417* [1.984]	1,817	144.7	2
BMI	OLS	0.537** [0.215]	0.464* [0.239]	1,706	22.06	2
Underweight	Logit	−0.690** [0.298]	−0.638 [0.411]	1,706	0.09	58
Obese	Logit	0.416 [0.496]	0.998 [0.751]	1,706	0.03	98
Panel C. Race Black = 1	Logit	0.282 [0.289]	0.0284 [0.274]	1,691	0.038	3

Notes: Standard errors (in brackets) are clustered at the county level. Model in column 2 is estimated using county and cohort fixed effects and include individual characteristics at the time of application. State characteristics at the time of application include manufacturing wages, education/labor laws (age must enter school, age can obtain a work permit, and whether a continuation school law is in place), state expenditures in logs (education, charity and total expenditures on social programs), and state laws concerning MP transfers (work required, reapplication required, the maximum legislated amount for the first child, and the legislated amount for each additional child).

^***significant at the 1 percent level.

^**significant at the 5 percent level.

^*significant at the 10 percent level