Retain the Family: What It Takes to Keep Dual-Income Military Households

To support the Fourteenth Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation, IDA completed three lines of fact-finding analyses on the topic of military retention as a household decision. The report outlines a methodology for estimating the effect of military spouses’ employment outcomes on service members’ retention decisions, provides an overview of existing literature on this subject, and discusses the results of a qualitative analysis that supplements this available literature and a preliminary data analysis of compensation and retention in selected occupations.