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.
This dissertation measures access to buprenorphine, the fastest growing form of medication-assisted treatment, and the effects of demand side interventions aiming to tackle the opioid problem in America.
This dissertation uses a game theoretic model of space war to examine how sentiments in multiple dimensions impact state decisions regarding whether to expand a ground war into the space domain.
This dissertation examines the effects of exogenous shocks and labor market policies on employment, wages, and human capital development of youth and women.
Using data from the USAF 2015 Active Duty Career Decisions Survey, this dissertation employs a range of qualitative data analysis techniques to examine the open-ended response questions related to a pilot's decision to remain or depart the service.
This dissertation gains to understand the contextual effects on the success of the transition of technologies generated through the U.S. Department of Defense Small Business Innovation Research program.
This dissertation examines how the local environment contexts contribute to children's health and cognition.
This dissertation translates to policy analysis solutions developed to address the lack of credibility in the reproducibility crisis in science.
This study aims to understand how organizational context and interfaces affect the collection, management, and use of data for care improvement (CI).
Explores the U.S. capability to handle the Arctic Search and Rescue (SAR) Agreement, a landmark treaty that gives the U.S. responsibility for conducting SAR in a slice of territory that surrounds Alaska and stretches to the North Pole.
Explores the extent of a possible retirement wave within the Air Force civilian workforce and which areas are most likely to be affected.
Examines the U.S. defense acquisition workforce growth initiative and estimates how it has influenced overall cohort-level retention rates.
Examines conversations and attitudes about mental health in Twitter discourse.
Three essays exploring large discrepancies between different panel datasets of cross-country estimates of gross domestic product.
Addresses a need in the guidance for a rapidly-expanding wellness market.
Explores the competitiveness of India's domestic manufacturing across the supply chain; barriers and enablers to developing a domestic industry; and the cost of industrial policy support.
Offers a prospective analysis of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the anticipated security consequences of climate change.
Addresses American symphony orchestras and the unusual economic challenges they face, which are shared by many performing arts organizations.
Assesses China's past and current efforts towards preventing and controlling air pollution and conducts a mathematical simulation to illustrate the potential effectiveness of the government's proposed Action Plan and consequences of noncompliance.
This dissertation presents the results of three studies that investigate how law enforcement uses electronic surveillance.
Explores arts participation as a means of broader civic and social engagement facilitating immigrants' integration into the United States.
Explores single-payer proposals and estimates health care spending under single-payer alternatives in the United States.
Provides estimates of the number and rate of workplace fatalities for 215 countries from 1989-2013 using data from the International Labor Organization.
Examines how the US Department of Defense acquisition bureaucracy responds to unforeseen conflicts and adversaries by making immediate procurement investments.
Uses a mix of both quantitative and qualitative methods to help policy makers identify sources of innovation in the knowledge-based economy and to best leverage these sources for regional economic growth.
Analyzes determinants of obesity and a cash transfer policy to alleviate poverty and its effects on obesity.
