Book/Printed Material The role of special and incentive pays in retaining military mental health care providers

Title

• The role of special and incentive pays in retaining military mental health care providers

Summary

• "After more than a decade of war, the military services have many returning personnel with mental health needs, and thus the United States needs to ensure that it has the capacity to address their needs. Officer special and incentive (S & I) pays are used to create incentives for officer retention to meet manning requirements. However, no capability exists to assess how alternative S & I pay adjustments affect the retention of mental health care officers, and, as a result, policymakers lack an analytical and empirical basis for determining the effect of such adjustments on retention. The authors of this report adapt RAND's dynamic retention model (DRM) to handle multiyear special pay and develop estimates of expected military and civilian pay over a career, which are needed inputs to the model. Using longitudinal data on officer retention for entry cohorts from 1990 to 2000 followed to 2010, the authors obtain DRM parameter estimates for psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, occupational therapists, physician assistants, and social workers. Nearly all estimates are statistically significant, and the estimated models fit the data well. To demonstrate the needed capability, the authors use the estimated models to simulate the retention effects of alternative S & I pays."--Publisher's description.

Names

• Hosek, James R., author
• Nataraj, Shanthi, author
• Mattock, Michael G., 1961- author
• Asch, Beth J., author
• Rand Corporation. National Security Research Division, issuing body
• Rand Corporation, publisher
• National Defense Research Institute (U.S.). Forces and Resources Policy Center, researcher
• United States. Department of Defense. Office of the Secretary of Defense, sponsor

Created / Published

• Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND National Defense Research Institute, [2017]

Contents

• Introduction -- Military Financial Aid Programs for Physicians -- Conceptualizing and Modeling the Military Financial Aid Choice and Retention Decision -- Active Component Earnings of Mental Health Professionals -- Civilian Earnings of Mental Health Professionals -- Dynamic Retention Model Parameter Estimation -- Policy Simulations and Analyses -- Appendix A: Cost to the Individual of a Two-Period Commitment -- Appendix B: Possible Selectivity by Military Financial Aid Pathway -- Appendix C: Reserve Duty Earnings -- Appendix D: Comparisons of Military Pay Using the Pay Table Approach Versus Observed Pay from the Pay Files -- Appendix E: Civilian Earnings of Mental Health Care Providers -- Appendix F: Civilian Earnings of Female Physicians.

Headings

• -  United States.--Department of Defense--Personnel management
• -  Mental health personnel--Armed Forces--United States
• -  United States--Armed Forces--Officers--Salaries, etc
• -  Employee retention--United States--Mathematical models
• -  Mental health services--Armed Forces--United States--Planning
• -  United States--Department of Defense
• -  Health Personnel--organization & administration
• -  Mental Health Services--organization & administration
• -  Employee Incentive Plans
• -  Military Medicine--organization & administration
• -  United States
• -  United States.--Department of Defense
• -  Armed Forces--Officers--Salaries, etc
• -  Employee retention--Mathematical models
• -  Personnel management

Notes

• -  "RAND National Defense Research Institute."
• -  "Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense."
• -  Also available on the Internet as a PDF file.
• -  Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-101).
• -  Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.

Medium

• 1 online resource (xiii, 101 pages) : illustrations.

Call Number/Physical Location

• UH629.3

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcebookspublic.2024739232

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2024739232

Rights Advisory

• This is non-restricted, fully open content that may be accessed on and off of the Library of Congress campus, with no restrictions, by an unlimited number of users

Access Advisory

• Unrestricted online access

Online Format

• image
• pdf

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2024739232

Additional Metadata Formats

• MARCXML Record
• MODS Record
• Dublin Core Record