Jacob Alex Klerman - Böcker

The government performance movement has been in full swing for decades around the world. So, why do so many public programs and organizations continue to underperform? A major reason is that measuring the types of performance that people value mos...

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The findings of this study will be of special interest to government and other agencies concerned with the efficient use of resources in the military health care system.

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This report presents tabulations of the interrelationship between health insurance coverage for children and parental employment, using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, a longitudinal survey conducted by the Census Bureau.

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Although the military's need for enlisted personnel has declined by almost one-third since the end of the cold war, the armed services are finding it difficult to meet their recruiting goals. Among ongoing changes in the civilian labor market is a...

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Today, American service personnel are deploying at rates not seen since the Vietnam War. Such deployments and activations have raised concerns about their effect on the local economies. The authors of this report use econometric models to analyze ...

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Reports estimates of the effect of activation on the earnings of reservists and finds that earnings loss attributable to activation is less common than that suggested by survey-based analyses. However, the substantial earnings gains most reservist...

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Department of Defense manpower analyses make use of both civilian and military administrative records and survey data. Klerman provides an overview of these data sources and discusses how they can be analyzed with currently underutilized data-matc...

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The California Department of Social Services asked RAND to study the state=B9s policy for sanctioning welfare program participants who do not comply with statutory requirements of the welfare-to-work program. Researchers found that sanctions were ...

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Among the many hardships of military activation is the possibility of losing earnings, and though some research points to such a loss, other research suggests that reservists in fact earn substantially more when they are activated. The authors exa...

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Although polls of Hispanic youth show a strong propensity to serve in the military, Hispanics are nonetheless underrepresented among military recruits. The authors discuss the major characteristics that disproportionately disqualify Hispanic youth...

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Estimates, for as many as 18 years following enlistment, the causal effect of military enlistment on earnings and educational attainment. The authors address the empirical problems associated with the selective nature of military service by restri...

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This report presents the results of a survey of 5,000 older Army recruits asking why they did not enlist immediately after high school and why they later chose to do so.

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