Book/Printed Material Cash incentives and military enlistment, attrition, and reenlistment

Title

• Cash incentives and military enlistment, attrition, and reenlistment

Summary

• This monograph provides an empirical analysis of the enlistment, attrition, and reenlistment effects of bonuses, applying statistical models that control for such other factors as recruiting resources, in the case of enlistment and deployments in the case of reenlistment, and demographics. Enlistment and attrition models are estimated for the Army and our reenlistment model approach is twofold. The Army has greatly increased its use of reenlistment bonuses since FY 2004, and we begin by providing an in-depth history of the many changes in its reenlistment bonus program during this decade. We follow this with two independent analyses of the effect of bonuses on Army reenlistment. As we show, the results from the models are consistent, lending credence to the robustness of the estimates. One approach is extended to the Navy, the Marine Corps, and the Air Force, to obtain estimates of the effect of bonuses on reenlistment for all services. We also estimate an enlistment model for the Navy. The estimated models are used to address questions about the cost-effectiveness of bonuses and their effects in offsetting other factors that might adversely affect recruiting and retention, such as changes in the civilian economy and frequent deployments.

Names

• Asch, Beth J.
• United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense
• National Defense Research Institute (U.S.)

Created / Published

• Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corporation, 2010.

Contents

• Introduction -- Background on enlistment bonuses -- Methodology and data for the enlistment model -- Enlistment results -- Army attrition results -- Background on the Army's Selective Reenlistment Bonus Program -- Methodology and data for the Army reenlistment model -- Reenlistment results for all services -- Conclusions -- Appendix A. Detailed background on enlistment bonuses -- Appendix B. Detailed background on reenlistment bonuses -- Appendix C. Estimated reenlistment models, Army 24-MOS sample -- Appendix D. Estimated reenlistment models, all services -- Appendix E. Average SRBM, by occupation, all services -- Appendix F. Distribution of bonuses.

Headings

• -  Bounties, Military--United States
• -  United States--Armed Forces--Pay, allowances, etc
• -  United States--Armed Forces--Recruiting, enlistment, etc.--Mathematical models

Notes

• -  "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense."
• -  "RAND National Defense Research Institute."
• -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-167).
• -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

• 1 electronic resource (xxviii, 167 pages )

Call Number/Physical Location

• UB323

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2021760782

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2021760782

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Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access

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• pdf

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2021760782

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