TY - JOUR PY - 2018// TI - War versus peace: does military officer quality adjust? JO - Applied economics letters A1 - Bacolod, Marigee A1 - Griner, Michael A1 - Seagren, Chad W. SP - 1278 EP - 1282 VL - 25 IS - 18 N2 - 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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LA - en SN - 1350-4851 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2017.1418067 ID - ref1 ER -