How Economists Could Help Inform Economic and Budget Analysis Used by the US Congress

Staff of the Congressional Budget … - Journal of Economic …, 2024 - pubs.aeaweb.org
The US Congress uses economic and budgetary projections, cost estimates for proposed
legislation, and other analyses provided by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) as part …

The heterogeneous value of a statistical life: Evidence from US Army reenlistment decisions

K Greenberg, M Greenstone, SP Ryan, M Yankovich - 2021 - nber.org
We estimate the value of a statistical life (VSL), or the willingness to trade-off wealth and
mortality risk, among 430,000 US Army soldiers choosing whether to reenlist from 2002 …

Does the US Navy's reliance on objective standards prevent discrimination in promotions and retentions?

A Golan, WH Greene, JM Perloff - Plos one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
To prevent discrimination, the US Navy enlisted-personnel promotion process relies
primarily on objective measures. However, it also uses the subjective opinion of a sailor's …

Modeling Air Force Retention with Macroeconomic Indicators

MK McGee - 2021 - scholar.afit.edu
Officer retention has been a longstanding problem for Air Force leadership. Both intuition
and previous research suggest economic and demographic factors play important roles in …