Are Current Military Education Benefits Efficient and Effective for the Services?

Wenger, Jennie W.; Miller, Trey; Baird, Matthew D.; Buryk, Peter; Daugherty, Lindsay; Graf, Marlon; Hollands, Simon; Jahedi, Salar; Yeung, Douglas

doi:10.7249/rr1766

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“…Regarding enlisted members, it is again difficult to find published studies with directly comparable statistics. However, when looking at retention for early-career DoD members (a majority of whom are male), a study by Wenger et al (2017) shows lower cumulative retention than the patterns among Coast Guard women in Figure 1.2.…”

Section: Organization Of This Reportmentioning

confidence: 91%

Improving Gender Diversity in the U.S. Coast Guard: Identifying Barriers to Female Retention

Hall¹,

Keller²,

Schulker³

et al. 2019

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This report documents the results of a mixed-methods study designed to help identify the root causes of female attrition in the active-duty Coast Guard and develop recommendations that will help mitigate identified barriers to Coast Guard active-duty female retention. The study analyzed trends in Coast Guard retention data and conducted focus groups with over 1,100 active-duty Coast Guard members across ten locations. This report describes the key retention factors identified through these analy ses and provides recommendations for improving U.S. Coast Guard policies and programs to address potential barriers and improve female retention. The findings of this report should be of interest to decisionmakers across all of the military services and components of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) seeking to improve female retention within their organizations.

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Section: Organization Of This Reportmentioning

confidence: 91%

Improving Gender Diversity in the U.S. Coast Guard: Identifying Barriers to Female Retention

Hall¹,

Keller²,

Schulker³

et al. 2019

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“…Some prior research suggests that enlisted personnel typically have only limited information about even their own component's education benefits. For instance, the Post-9/11 GI Bill likely did not have a large effect on highquality enlistments because of recruits' lack of understanding about the details of the program (Wenger et al, 2017). Research on the broader population of students has found that information frictions and high administrative burdens can prevent students from taking advantage of financial aid opportunities (Dynarski et al, 2018), suggesting that information frictions can prevent education benefits from being an effective policy lever.…”

Section: Enlistment Bonuses and Education Benefitsmentioning

confidence: 99%

End-of-Pilot Assessment of the U.S. Army's Consolidated Recruiting Program

2022

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“…Children are eligible to use the benefit after a parent has served 10 years in the Army and before the age of 26. 6 In a non-peer reviewed technical report, Wenger et al (2017) review and analyze the effects of some military education benefits (including the Post-9/11 GI Bill) on recruiting and retention. The report attributes a small positive retention effect to the transfer provision.…”

Section: The Post-9/11 Gi Billmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There has been a particularly dramatic expansion in the application of nudges in education over the last decade. Researchers and policymakers have leveraged behavioral economic approaches to increase early literacy, improve school attendance, promote parental engagement in their children's schooling, and increase college affordability, access, and persistence (Bergman, 2015; Bettinger et al., 2012; Castleman & Page, 2015; Castleman & Page, 2016; Hoxby & Turner, 2013; Mayer et al., 2019; Rogers & Feller, 2018; York & Loeb, 2014).…”

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Nudges Don't Work When the Benefits Are Ambiguous: Evidence from a High‐Stakes Education Program

Castleman¹,

Murphy²,

Patterson³

et al. 2021

J Policy Anal Manage

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The Post‐9/11 GI Bill allows service members to transfer generous education benefits to a dependent. We run a large‐scale experiment that encourages service members to consider the transfer option among a population that includes individuals for whom the transfer benefits are clear and individuals for whom the net‐benefits are significantly more ambiguous. We find no impact of a one‐time e‐mail about benefits transfer among service members for whom we predict considerable ambiguity in the action, but sizeable impacts among service members for whom education benefits transfer is far less ambiguous. Our work contributes to the nascent literature investigating conditions when low‐touch nudges at scale may be effective.

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Are Current Military Education Benefits Efficient and Effective for the Services?

Cited by 8 publications

References 13 publications

Improving Gender Diversity in the U.S. Coast Guard: Identifying Barriers to Female Retention

Improving Gender Diversity in the U.S. Coast Guard: Identifying Barriers to Female Retention

End-of-Pilot Assessment of the U.S. Army's Consolidated Recruiting Program

Nudges Don't Work When the Benefits Are Ambiguous: Evidence from a High‐Stakes Education Program

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