Research for AFQT

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The All-Volunteer Force: A Positive Perspective
February 1, 1983
This paper addresses concerns about manning the active force with volunteers. These concerns include supply, quality and cost of manpower.
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Final Report of the Manpower Availability Study
January 1, 1982
Highlights the findings of the various tasks of the MAST study, which included studying enlistment standards, Class A school screening procedures, rating assignments, and the relationship of attitudes toward pay, Navy jobs, and military life to first-term and career reenlistment decisions.
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Measured Mental Ability, Service School Achievement and Job Perforamnce
June 1, 1974
Since World War II the services have used the Armed Forces Qualification Test (AFQT) to screen draftees and enlistment applications. This procedure assumes that higher scores on the AFQT indicate a higher productivity of individuals in the armed forces. This paper examines some of the evidence for this assumption.
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THE EFFECT OF DISCRIMINATION ON EARNINGS, EVIDENCE FROM MILITARY TEST SCORE RESULTS
June 1, 1974
Utilizes data on the AFQT scores of young men in order to make estimates of what the relative importance of current and post discrimination were in explaining 1960 racial differentials in earnings.
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