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Title

Enlistment effects of the 2₊2₊4 recruiting experiment / Richard Buddin.

Author

Buddin, Richard J., 1951-

Publication

Santa Monica, CA : Rand, 1991.

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Additional Authors

• Rand Corporation.
• United States. Army

Description

xvi, 46 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

This report describes the enlistment effects of the Army's 2+2+4 recruiting experiment, which was aimed at attracting high-quality personnel into the active Army and encouraging their later participation in the reserves. These effects were estimated through a job-offer experiment that estimated how the program affected the recruits' choices among skills and terms of service and through a geographic experiment that assessed whether the program led to a "market expansion"--I.e., an increase in the total number of high-quality persons entering the active Army. Overall, the program seems to have accomplished its objectives for active-duty recruiting. The 2+2+4 option sold readily and benefited virtually all the occupational specialties for which it was tested. During the test, about 7 percent of all male high-quality enlistments contracts were written under the program. Moreover, the analysis indicates that the program attracted high-quality recruits into the Army and caused only a small number to change from a longer term of service to a shorter one.

Alternative Title

Enlistment effects of the two plus two plus four recruiting experiment.

Subject

• United States. Army > Recruiting, enlistment, etc
• United States. Army > Reserves
• Veterans > Scholarships, fellowships, etc. > United States

Note

• "Prepared for the United States Army."
• "R-4097-A."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 45-46).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

0833011898

LCCN

^^^91032787^

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Harvard Library