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Title: Serving Her Country: An Analysis of Women's Enlistment
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Hosek, James R. Peterson, Christine E. |
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Serving Her Country: An Analysis of Women's Enlistment Interim Report, The RAND Corporation, 1990 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: RAND Keyword(s): Educational Aspirations/Expectations; Gender Differences; Local Labor Market; Marriage; Military Enlistment; Women Using data drawn from a 1979 Department of Defense survey of enlistees and the 1979 wave of the NLSY, this report examines one aspect of women's military service--the factors affecting the flow of new recruits. The analysis uses models of both individual willingness to enlist and the allocation of recruiter effort to enlist women and other groups. These models, estimated with a microdatabase containing many individual and local market variables, make it possible to circumvent the distorting effects of the overall demand constraint that has, in the past, jeopardized aggregate data analyses of women's enlistment. The authors compare the options and behavior of women with those of men. For example, they consider whether labor market forces influence young men and women differently; the ways in which marriage expectations affect the enlistment decision; whether the role of education expectations differs between the two sexes; and what impact local labor market conditions have on individual's enlistment outcome. The research suggests that there are strong similarities between men and women in the factors influencing their enlistment decisions. [NTIS AD-A221-840-2-XAB] |
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Hosek, James R. and Christine E. Peterson. "Serving Her Country: An Analysis of Women's Enlistment." Interim Report, The RAND Corporation, 1990. |