TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2004//
TI  - The effect of deployment on first- and second-term re-enlistment in the US - active duty force
JO  - Defence and peace economics
A1  - Hosek, James R.
A1  - Totten, Mark E.
SP  - 433
EP  - 451
VL  - 15
IS  - 5
N2  - 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 /> 
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SN  - 1024-2694
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10242690420001683337
ID  - ref1
ER  -