@article{ref1, title="War versus peace: does military officer quality adjust?", journal="Applied economics letters", year="2018", author="Bacolod, Marigee and Griner, Michael and Seagren, Chad W.", volume="25", number="18", pages="1278-1282", abstract="In this study, we demonstrate the quantity-quality trade-off between the size of the U.S. military force and the quality of its junior military leaders. We employ a difference-in-differences methodology and compare measures of job performance before and after to show that in periods of military force expansion, the average quality of U.S. Marine officers decline; the converse holds in times of relative peace. This has implications for both military effectiveness and understanding labour market dynamics.

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", language="en", issn="1350-4851", doi="10.1080/13504851.2017.1418067", url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2017.1418067" }