Elda Pema
Naval Postgraduate School
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Defence and Peace Economics | 2010
Elda Pema; Stephen L. Mehay
The Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps is a high school program that combines classroom teaching with extracurricular activities. The program is located primarily in inner city schools and serves at‐risk students. Its goals are multidimensional and include military preparation and improving academic achievement. Using High School and Beyond data we find that the program’s effects depend on the timing and intensity of involvement. Test scores, graduation rates, and enlistments are higher for students who participate early in high school and for those who persist in the program. Conversely, we find few effects for students participating in the last two years of high school.
Defence and Peace Economics | 2017
Elda Pema; Stephen L. Mehay; Simona Tick
The study examines the effect of noncognitive skills on early career choices among young job seekers. Specifically, we analyze the influence of personality traits on the decision by military applicants either to choose the military or a civilian career option. We use a unique micro-level data-set of applicants to the US Navy and exploit the fact that many individuals who initially apply for military jobs eventually choose civilian careers instead. In this institutional setting, job candidates use new information to update their beliefs about the military job match. Personality traits are viewed as productive abilities that influence applicants’ expectations about the economic return to the job and occupational training offered by the Navy. The study finds that many of the 15 lower order personality facets associated with the Big Five traits are predictive of applicants’ job choices and provides suggestive evidence of a link between personality traits, job match expectations, and career choice.
Economics Bulletin | 2004
Onur Baser; Elda Pema
Southern Economic Journal | 2009
Elda Pema; Stephen L. Mehay
Labour Economics | 2010
Elda Pema; Stephen L. Mehay
Economics of Education Review | 2012
Elda Pema; Stephen L. Mehay
Archive | 2002
Elda Pema
Archive | 2009
Elda Pema; Stephen L. Mehay
Transition Studies Review | 2010
Elda Pema
Archive | 2008
Stephen L. Mehay; Elda Pema