LTC Kyle Greenberg

Associate Professor

Director of Long-Term Research

Office of Economic and Manpower Analysis

Social Sciences

Personal Website
kyle.greenberg [at] westpoint.edu
Kyle Greenberg is an Academy Professor of Economics in the Department of Social Sciences and the Director of Long-Term Research for the Army’s Office of Economic and Manpower and Analysis (OEMA). His primary areas of research are labor economics, public finance, the economics of education, and market design. Kyle deployed to Iraq and served in Germany prior to teaching at West Point. He earned a BS in Mathematics from West Point in 2005 and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2015.

Ph.D. in Economics - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

B.S. in Mathematics - West Point

Research Interests

Labor Economics, Public Economics, Economics of Education

Current Research

Davis, Jonathan MV, Kyle Greenberg, and Damon Jones. “An Experimental Evaluation of Deferred Acceptance: Evidence from Over 100 Army Officer Labor Markets.” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper, 2023. https://www.nber.org/papers/w31612. Conditionally accepted, Econometrica.

Wasserman, Melanie, and Anna Weber. “The Effects of Gender Integration on Men: Evidence from the U.S. Military.” 2024. National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper, 2024.  https://www.nber.org/papers/w33235. Revise and resubmit, The Quarterly Journal of Economics.

Greenberg, Kyle, Matthew Gudgeon, Adam Isen, Corbin L. Miller, and Richard W. Patterson. “Intergenerational Transmission of Occupation: Lessons from the United States Army.” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper, 2024. https://www.nber.org/papers/w33009.

Greenberg, Kyle, Michael Greenstone, Stephen P. Ryan, and Michael Yankovich. “The Heterogeneous Value of a Statistical Life: Evidence from US Army Reenlistment Decisions.” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper, 2021. https://www.nber.org/papers/w29104.  

Selected Publications

Bruhn, Jesse, Kyle Greenberg, Matthew Gudgeon, Evan K. Rose, and Yotam Shem-Tov. "The Effects of Combat Deployments on Veterans’ Outcomes." Journal of Political Economy 132, no. 8 (2024): 2830-2879. https://doi.org/10.1086/729450

Greenberg, Kyle, Parag A. Pathak, and Tayfun Sönmez. " Redesigning the US Army’s Branching Process: A Case Study in Minimalist Market Design." American Economic Review 114, no. 4 (2024): 1070-1106. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/aer.20211743&nbsp

Greenberg, Kyle, Matthew Gudgeon, Adam Isen, Corbin Miller, and Richard Patterson. "Army Service in the All-Volunteer Era." The Quarterly Journal of Economics 137, no. 4 (2022): 2363-2418. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjac026

Redman, Samuel, and Kyle Greenberg. " The Effect of Service-Length Obligations on Occupational Selection: Evidence from West Point Graduates." Defence and Peace Economics 35, no. 1 (2024): 109-127. https://doi.org/10.1080/10242694.2022.2101199

Trivedi, Amal N., Lan Jiang, Donald R. Miller, Shailender Swaminathan, Courtney A. Johnson, Wen-Chih Wu, and Kyle Greenberg. "Association of Disability Compensation With Mortality and Hospitalizations Among Vietnam-Era Veterans With Diabetes." JAMA Internal Medicine 182, no. 7 (2022): 757-765. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2793234

Setren, Elizabeth, Kyle Greenberg, Oliver Moore, and Michael Yankovich. "Effects of Flipped Classroom Instruction: Evidence from a Randomized Trial." Education Finance and Policy 16, no. 3 (2021): 363-387. https://doi.org/10.1162/edfp_a_00314

Carter, Susan Payne, Kyle Greenberg, and Michael S. Walker. " The Impact of Computer Usage on Academic Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Trial at the United States Military Academy." Economics of Education Review 56 (2017): 118-132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2016.12.005

Autor, David H., Mark Duggan, Kyle Greenberg, and David S. Lyle. "The Impact of Disability Benefits on Labor Supply: Evidence from the VA's Disability Compensation Program." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 8, no. 3 (2016): 31-68. https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.20150158