All Pardee RAND students complete a policy-relevant dissertation aimed at tackling the most pressing policy issues facing the world. Many Pardee RAND dissertations are partially- or fully-funded through endowed dissertation awards and other prizes.
Aims to augment the existing evidence base on the consequences of and policy remedies for health care consolidation in three essays.
Three papers covering different aspects of physicians' working lives: factors related to professional satisfaction; perceptions about administrative work; and physician job roles; and an analysis of sex differences in income.
Explores how future heatwaves in India may vary over time and geography and estimate the impact they might have on mortality.
Presents three complementary research approaches focused on investigating the willingness of an American president and his advisors to authorize conventional strikes on the Chinese mainland during wartime.
Explores home and community-based services as a way to curb long-term services and supports spending growth through an evaluation of Medicaid's most recent rebalancing effort — the Balancing Incentive Program.
Seeks to disentangle the structural factors that affect levels of economic and social integration of minority and immigrant populations.
Explores California's recent liberal policies, mostly associated to drug-related crimes, to provide implications for future policymaking.
Series of three essays on health financing in Sub-Saharan Africa using quantitative and comparative case study methods.
Tests how two different payment models could help address the uncertainty about clinical benefits and the high upfront cost of some emerging therapies.
Assesses the impact of policies designed to address the treatment and prevention of chronic using a range of causal inference and quantitative methods.
Examines the influence of macroeconomic factors on individual welfare.
Examines the broader theme of deviations from presidential term limits.
This dissertation explores the externality of ammonia emissions from the Iowa hog industry and investigates the possible impact of voluntary environmental policies to encourage ammonia control technology adoption.
This dissertation studies the enduring effects of wartime sexual violence on Ugandan women and explore its ripple effects on families.
This dissertation is a process and impact evaluation of the Santa Monica Homeless Community Court.
Studies the long-term effectiveness and vulnerability of a diverse set of fiscal policies, which propose lump-sum transfers and different consumption tax exemptions.
This dissertation explores the college major decision-making process, both for initial and subsequent major choices, and analyzes the associations between major choice behaviors and student outcomes such as time to degree and probability of graduation.
Examines if state-mandated financial education improves debt-related and college-going behaviors among economically vulnerable young adults.
This dissertation identifies for strengthening the Federal Government's capacity to evaluate its research and development programs using insights identified from philanthropic foundations.
This dissertation, in a three paper format, examines three policy levers for improving health care value.
This dissertation considers the viability of applying Value of Information methods in complex systems for policy analysis, concluding that these methods can be applied, but that different methods are appropriate in different cases.
Seeks to improve understanding of the factors indicative of applications to the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps' High School Scholarship Program.
This dissertation uses the National Training Center instrumentation system to aid simulation-based acquisition.
This dissertation examines divergent economic paths between regions in several countries and recommends specific steps for Ukraine's regional and overall economic policy.
The dissertation assesses the impact of nurse practitioner scope-of-practice regulations in primary care.
