The Impact of a Spouse Incentive on Employee Retention: Evidence from a Military Spouse Scholarship

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Evaluation Design for Department of Air Force Military and Family Readiness Programs: Considerations for Air Force Families Forever, Relocation Assistance Program, and Employment Assistance

“…Scholarship recipients' earnings also appear to grow more rapidly than those of non-MyCAA spouses (Miller et al, 2018). Further, MyCAA boosts service member retention for at least six years following the spouse's receipt of the scholarship (Knapp et al, 2019;Miller et al, 2018).…”