Fiscal Year	2015
Division	Graduate School of Business & Public Policy
Department	Graduate School of Business & Public Policy
Investigator(s)	Shen, Yu-Chu
Sponsor	Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower & Reserve Affairs (Army)
Summary	The research team at GSBPP will perform statistical evaluation on the association between alcohol consumption and job performance. This analysis will allow us to estimate the economic cost of alcohol abuse to the Army as the result of lower worker productivity. Importantly, we will explore whether the relationship between alcohol consumption and job performance can be modified by a soldier's underlying psychological profile, as measured by the Global Assessment Tool (GAT). We will merge job performance and health measures from the Person-event Data Environment (PDE) (e.g., demotion, attrition, and/or deaths, depending on data availability), alcohol consumption information from Deployment Health Assessment (DHA) and Post-Deployment Health Assessment (PDHA), and GAT scores at the individual soldier level. We will implement a novel statistical design - a regression discontinuity model - that allows us to isolate the causal effect of alcohol consumption on various performance outcomes.
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