The Relationship Between Colocation and Reenlistment in the Marine Corps

This document provides the technical background for the analysis presented in the CNA annotated briefing, The Relationship Between  Colocation and Reenlistment in the Marine Corps (Vol. 1). Specifically, it contains the following information: 

• Our data-cleaning procedures, including the observations that were excluded from our analysis
• A description of the reenlistment and colocation/marital status variables used in the analysis
• Our choice of model and estimation technique
• A description of the control variables included in our model
• Summary statistics of all variables included in our estimates as well as our estimation results

The annotated briefing contains the summary results and provides conclusions and recommendations for our sponsor, the Assistant  Secretary of the Navy for Financial Management and Comptroller (ASN(FM&C)).