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Over 380,000 military spouses were eligible for the MyCAA scholarship between October 2010 and December 2011

• Eligible spouses who applied for a MyCAA Scholarship differed in several ways from those who did not apply. For example, spouses more likely to apply had experienced a military move or a deployment, had 2 or more children, were married to enlisted noncommissioned officers, or lived in states with higher unemployment rates.
• All eligible applicants whose study plans met the MyCAA criteria were approved for scholarships, although 19 percent did not end up using any funds.

At least 34 percent of the users in the 2010/2011 cohort were known to have completed their plans by the end of the three-year scholarship window

• Data on completion may under-represent actual completion as spouses and schools may no longer report completion to DoD after scholarship eligibility has ended
• Differences in users' schools, plans, or other academic factors appear to be quite important when comparing known completion to noncompletion.
• Spouses who do not complete their plan may still gain valuable skills or knowledge from the classes they take.

Use of MyCAA funds is associated with positive changes in employment and earnings (but further analyses are necessary to support any causal claims)

• On average, MyCAA-eligible military spouses worked less over time (from 2007 to 2013). By 2013, however, MyCAA users were more likely than nonusers to be employed.
• Although the average annual earnings of working spouses who used the scholarship had stagnated for several years or even declined prior to October 2010, earnings for this group grew after December 2011.

MyCAA usage is positively associated with service member continuation

• Of personnel who had three years of service in 2011, 43 percent whose spouses did not use MyCAA were still on active duty in 2014, compared to 52 percent whose spouses did use MyCAA.
• More generally, service members whose spouses were MyCAA users were more likely to still be on active-duty in 2014 than service members whose spouses were MyCAA-eligible nonusers.