Beth Asch is a senior principal economist at RAND, and a professor of policy analysis at the RAND School of Public Policy. Her areas of study include labor and personnel economics and defense manpower. She has led numerous studies on compensation design in the military and in the federal civil service, on the workforce implications of state and local pension reform, and on military recruiting and personnel supply to the armed forces. Her most recent work includes analysis and redesign of the military pay table, military retirement reform, state and local pension reform, enlistment supply and recruiting resource effectiveness, retention and compensation in the federal civil service, and food insecurity in the armed forces. Asch's research has been widely disseminated as reports, briefings, and journal articles among the policy community, the media, and the academic community as well as Congressional testimony. Asch received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of Chicago.
Ph.D. and M.A. in economics, University of Chicago; B.A. in economics, University of California, Los Angeles
