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.
Explores how the United States Army has adapted to the Voluntary Transfer Incentive Program, which allows mid-career Army officers to volunteer to switch specialties to a functional area.
Provides a detailed and reliable understanding of the nature of the Okinawan public's perceptions, policy preferences, and cultural attitudes regarding the problems and benefits associated with the U.S. military in Okinawa.
Explores the evolution of themes associated with climate finance and green bonds to identify opportunities to enhance public-private cooperation and facilitate policymaking.
Three essays addressing surprise out-of-network medical bills and out-of-network health care provider payment.
Explores the relationship between living environment, subjective well-being and objective well-being outcomes, for a cohort of participants in the Housing for Health's Permanent Supportive Housing program in Los Angeles.
Evaluates past policy changes surrounding national legalization of cannabis and identifies feasible policy responses for contemporary or anticipated issues.
Explores the fundamental relationship and underlying incentives that drive criminal and ideological strategies and operations.
Uses a simulation tool to analyze the Air Force's Expeditionary Medical Support System to see how it performs, what changes can be made, and the specific impacts on overall patient outcomes for different patient streams.
Explores how artificial intelligence (AI) influences U.S. public policy, what gaps exist due to AI methods and applications and examines what trends and insights are emerging that can help stakeholders plan for the future.
Proposes an approach to game design grounded in logics of inquiry from the social sciences.
Explores the relationships between promotion, turnover, employee satisfaction, and the positioning and movement of people in an occupation.
Explores intervention opportunities for tax evasion, focusing on the behavioral aspects of tax evasion, specifically, on perceptions about tax evasion and key elements of the U.S. federal tax system.
Explores concerns at the Air Force Recruiting Service regarding an imbalance in workloads among their enlisted accessions recruiters, which could negatively influence both recruiter morale and aggregate production of high-quality recruits.
Investigates the link between acquisition timelines and space conflict using a mixed-methods approach of game-theoretic modeling and case study analysis.
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.
Aims to augment the existing evidence base on the consequences of and policy remedies for health care consolidation in three essays.
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.
