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LTC David Lyle

Director - Office of Economic and Manpower Analysis
US Army

Contact Information:
Office Location: LH B110
Phone: 845.938.3329
Email: David.Lyle@usma.edu

Lieutenant Colonel David Lyle is an Associate Professor of Economics and the current Director of the Office of Economic and Manpower Analysis. He has publications in the Journal of Political Economy, the Journal of Labor Economics, the Review of Economics and Statistics, the American Economic Journal: Applied, the Economics of Education Review, American Economic Association, and the Strategic Studies Institute. Lieutenant Colonel Lyle earned a B.S. in economics at West Point in 1994 and a Ph.D. in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003. His primary areas of research are labor economics, econometrics, human capital, and talent management.

Publications

Autor, David H., Mark G. Duggan, and David S. Lyle, “Battle Scars? The Puzzling Decline in Employment and Rise in Disability Receipt among Vietnam Era Veterans.” American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings, 101:3. 2011, 339-344.

Dabkowski, Mathew, Samuel Huddleston, Paul Kucik, and David S. Lyle, “Shaping Senior Leader Officer Talent: Using a Multi-dimensional Model of Talent to Analyze the Effect of Personnel Management Decisions and Attrition on the Flow of Army Officer Talent Throughout the Officer Career Model.” submitted to the Proceedings of the Informs 2011 Winter Simulation Conference, December, 2011.

Dabkowski, Mathew, Samuel Huddleston, Paul Kucik, and David S. Lyle, “Shaping Senior Leader Officer Talent: How Personnel Management Decisions and Attrition Impact the Flow of Army Officer Talent Throughout the Officer Career Model.” Proceedings of the Informs 2010 Winter Simulation Conference, December, 2010.

Wardynski, Casey, David S. Lyle, Mike Colarusso, “Towards a U.S. Army Officer Corps Strategy: Employing Talent.” Strategic Studies Institute, v6 May, 2010.

Wardynski, Casey, David S. Lyle, Mike Colarusso, “Towards a U.S. Army Officer Corps Strategy: Developing Talent.” Strategic Studies Institute, v5 March, 2010.

Engel, Rozlyn, Luke Gallagher, and David S. Lyle, “Military Deployments and Children’s Academic Achievement: Evidence from Department of Defense Education Activity Schools.” Economics of Education Review, v29 (1). February 2010, 73-82.

Wardynski, Casey, David S. Lyle, Mike Colarusso, “Towards a U.S. Army Officer Corps Strategy: Accessing Talent.” Strategic Studies Institute, v4 February, 2010.

Wardynski, Casey, David S. Lyle, Mike Colarusso, “Towards a U.S. Army Officer Corps Strategy: Retaining Talent.” Strategic Studies Institute, v3 January, 2010.

Wardynski, Casey, David S. Lyle, Mike Colarusso, “Towards a U.S. Army Officer Corps Strategy: A Human Capital Model Focused on Talent.” Strategic Studies Institute, v2 April, 2009.

Wardynski, Casey, David S. Lyle, Mike Colarusso, “Towards a U.S. Army Officer Corps Strategy: Defining Talent.” Strategic Studies Institute, November, 2009.

Lyle, David S. “The Effects of Peer Heterogeneity on the Production of Human Capital at West Point.” American Economic Journal (Applied), v1 (4), October 2009, 69-84.

Wardynski, Casey, David S. Lyle, Mike Colarusso, “Towards a U.S. Army Officer Corps Strategy: A Human Capital Model Focused on Talent.” Strategic Studies Institute, v1 April, 2009.

Wardynski, Casey, David S. Lyle, William E. Mohr, “Developing an Engineer Leader Technical Competency Strategy: Accessing, Developing, Retaining, and Employing Talent.” Engineer, April-June 2008.

Lyle, David S. “Estimating and Interpreting Peer and Role Model Effects from Randomly Assigned Social Groups at West Point.” Review of Economics and Statistics, v89 no.2, May 2007, 289-99.

Lyle, David S. “Using Military Deployments and Job Assignments to Estimate the Effect of Parental Absences and Household Relocations on Children’s Academic Achievement.” Journal of Labor Economics, v24 no.2, April 2006, 319-50.

Acemoglu, Daron, David Autor, and David S. Lyle, “Women, War, and Wages: The Effect of Female Labor Supply on the Wage Structure at Mid-Century.” Journal of Political Economy, v112 no.3, June 2004, 497-551.

Working Papers

Autor, David, Mark Duggan, and David S. Lyle, “Understanding How Veteran Disability Compensation Affects Labor Force Participation and Earnings.”

Dudley, Dean, David S. Lyle, John Smith, “Mentors Matter in the U.S. Army: Mentor Effects on Performance and Retention”

Lyle, David S., John Smith, “Demographic Role Model Effects in Labor Market Outcomes”

Lyle, David S., John Smith. "Estimating the Opportunity Cost of Military Service"

Lyle, David S. and Bruce Sacerdote "Casualties of War: Estimating the Cost to Military Families"

Lyle, David S., and John Smith "Casualties of War: The Demand for Mental Health Workers"

Wardynski, Casey, David S. Lyle, Mike Colarusso, “Towards a U.S. Army Officer Corps Strategy: Evaluating Talent.” May, 2010.

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