Enlistment effects of the 2₊2₊4 recruiting experiment
By: Richard Buddin.
Contributors: Rand Corporation.; United States. Army.
Publisher: Rand
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Santa Monica, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 46
Subjects: United States. Army -- Recruiting, enlistment, etc.; United States. Army -- Reserves.; Veterans -- Scholarships, fellowships, etc. -- United States.
Other titles: Enlistment effects of the two plus two plus four recruiting experiment.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 45-46).
"Prepared for the United States Army."
"R-4097-A."