@article{ref1,
title="The effect of deployment on first- and second-term re-enlistment in the US - active duty force",
journal="Defence and peace economics",
year="2004",
author="Hosek, James R. and Totten, Mark E.",
volume="15",
number="5",
pages="433-451",
abstract="Why should deployment affect re-enlistment? In our model, members enter the military with naiumlve beliefs about deployment and use actual deployment experience to update their beliefs and revise their expected utility of re-enlisting. Empirically, re-enlistment is related to the type and number of deployments, consistent with the learning model. Non-hostile deployment increases first-term re-enlistment but hostile deployment has little effect except for the Army, where the effect is positive. Both types increase second-term re-enlistment. Interestingly, first-term members with dependants tend to respond to deployment like second-term members. In addition, deployment acts directly to affect re-enlistment, not indirectly through time to promotion.<p />",
language="",
issn="1024-2694",
doi="10.1080/10242690420001683337",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10242690420001683337"
}