Meredith Kleykamp

Assistant Professor
Spring 2008 Office Hours:
10:00-12:00 W
http://people.ku.edu/~kleykamp
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Professor Kleykamp (PhD Princeton) recently completed her dissertation, Minority Representation in the Armed Forces in the All-Volunteer Era, which is a study of race, class, and military service. Areas: Quantitative Methods and Demography, and Population and Society.

WHO CHOOSES TO JOIN THE MILITARY AND HOW DOES MILITARY SERVICE INFLUENCE SOCIOECONOMIC SUCCESS?

.........I am interested in understanding the social forces influencing why people volunteer to serve in the military and how that decision affects their lives. If the military offers a place to “be all you can be”, are those who have served “all they could have been”? My current research examines decisions to enlist after Sept. 11, 2001, the employment and enrollment effects of the military drawdown in the early 1990s. I also conducted a field experiment to see how employers treat job applicants who are military veterans, when faced with an equally qualified non-veteran. I am beginning research that examines the effects of military service on wages among women veterans, and will be replicating my experimental study to incorporate many more groups (such as women and reservists). Methodologically, I am a quantitative sociologist and social demographer and use multiple statistical approaches in my research.

 

Classes for Fall 2008

• Soc 510 Elementary Statistics & Data Analysis