War versus peace: does military officer quality adjust?
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Authors
Bacolod, Marigee
Griner, Michael
Seagren, Chad W.
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Cyclical quality adjustment
job performance
difference-in-difference
U.S. military
officer quality
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job performance
difference-in-difference
U.S. military
officer quality
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2018
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Abstract
In this study, we demonstrate the quantity–quality trade-off between the size of the U.S. military
force and the quality of its junior military leaders. We employ a difference-in-differences methodology
and compare measures of job performance before and after to show that in periods of
military force expansion, the average quality of U.S. Marine officers decline; the converse holds in
times of relative peace. This has implications for both military effectiveness and understanding
labour market dynamics.
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Article
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The article of record as published may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2017.1418067
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Graduate School of Business and Public Policy (GSBPP)
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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5 p.
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Bacolod, Marigee, Michael Griner, and Chad W. Seagren. "War versus peace: does military officer quality adjust?." Applied Economics Letters 25.18 (2018): 1278-1282.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.