Comparison of Definitions for Identifying Urgent Care Centers in Health Insurance Claims June 30, 2021
The objective of this study is to describe and validate two claims-based urgent care centers definitions.
Student-Authored Publications
Pardee RAND Graduate School students participate in many RAND research projects through their On-the-Job Training. These projects provide students with tremendous opportunities to publish their work in RAND reports and peer-reviewed journals. In fact, many of our students develop an impressive publications record during their tenure at Pardee RAND, which enables them to compete successfully for positions at universities and other research institutions.
Below is a list of publications that our students have recently authored or co-authored. The list provides an excellent illustration of the range of publications that our students have had a hand in developing.
2021
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Job-Related Stress Threatens the Teacher Supply: Key Findings from the 2021 State of the U.S. Teacher Survey June 15, 2021
The authors use American Teacher Panel data to explore the state of teacher well-being in the United States. They describe the job-related stressors that teachers faced during the COVID-19 pandemic and how those stressors are associated with teachers' reported well-being. They also examine the working conditions of teachers who were considering leaving their jobs because of the pandemic.
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Will Students Come Back? School Hesitancy Among Parents and Their Preferences for COVID-19 Safety Practices in Schools June 10, 2021
RAND researchers surveyed more than 2,000 parents of children ages 5–18 in May 2021 about their willingness to send their children to school in person in fall 2021. The research team also asked parents about their support for various health and safety practices at school, including getting their children tested for coronavirus disease 2019, and whether they would get their children vaccinated if a vaccine were available.
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Divergent and Inequitable Teaching and Learning Pathways During (and Perhaps Beyond) the Pandemic: Key Findings from the American Educator Panels Spring 2021 COVID-19 Surveys May 27, 2021
This Data Note provides a picture of students' learning experiences in kindergarten through grade 12 schools that have adopted a variety of operational models (e.g., fully in-person, hybrid, fully remote) during the 2020–2021 school year. Our findings provide evidence that students are on sharply different learning pathways depending on whether their schools have been mostly remote or mostly in-person for the majority of this school year.
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COVID-19 and the State of K–12 Schools: Results and Technical Documentation from the Spring 2021 American Educator Panels COVID-19 Surveys May 27, 2021
The authors provide technical information about the sample and survey instrument, along with resultant descriptive data, for the COVID-19 surveys administered to principals and teachers via RAND's American Educator Panels in spring 2021. Specific survey topics included schools' operational status (i.e., fully remote, fully in-person, hybrid), instructional and student outcomes, school safety measures, and plans for next school year.
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Making the Grade: Integration of Joint Professional Military Education and Talent Management in Developing Joint Officers May 26, 2021
The authors examine how joint educational institutions, joint stakeholders, and the military services can support a transition to joint professional military education (JPME) using the outcomes expected of graduates rather than traditional learning processes. They also provide recommendations for how joint stakeholders and the military services can better integrate talent management and JPME processes to support the outcomes-based approach.
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From Hermit Kingdom to Open for Business: Developing a Blueprint for North Korea's Economic Development May 25, 2021
It is difficult to guess when the situation in North Korea will become conducive to foreign investment and development. When it does, however, the country will need to find a path for economic development. The authors describe such a blueprint using foreign investment as an organizational framework.
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Climate Control: International Legal Mechanisms for Managing the Geopolitical Risks of Geoengineering May 25, 2021
The prospect of using geoengineering to address the accelerating effects of climate change is becoming more likely, and many of the potential technologies have negative externalities on the global to regional scale. In this Perspective, the authors review the state of different geoengineering technologies, the geopolitical risks associated with geoengineering implementation, and international governance options.
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Provider and Coach Perspectives on Implementing Shadow Coaching to Improve Provider-Patient Interactions May 21, 2021
We aimed to characterize lessons and barriers to implementing shadow coaching as a mechanism to improve interactions with patients and change organizational culture.
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Urban and Rural Districts Showed a Strong Divide During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results from the Second American School District Panel Survey May 11, 2021
In this report, researchers summarize results from the second survey of district leaders by the RAND Corporation's American School District Panel. The survey covered 2020–2021 school year instruction and scheduling, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) testing and vaccines, enrollments, budget, and staffing. The results are intended to inform policy and education practices related to educators' and students' needs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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American School District Panel Winter 2021 COVID-19 Survey May 11, 2021
A total of 434 district leaders from school districts and charter management organizations (CMOs) took the second survey of the American School District Panel between January 21 and March 5, 2021. This tool presents weighted survey results that are nationally representative of school districts in the United States.
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Reopening Under Uncertainty: Stress-Testing California's COVID-19 Exit Strategy May 10, 2021
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic required significant public health interventions from local governments. To help in those decisions, researchers used the Robust Decision Making approach to stress-test California's COVID-19 reopening strategy. This Perspective presents lessons learned from these experiments and outlines four characteristics of the best strategies.
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Use of Tobacco Products Among Unaccompanied Youth Experiencing Homelessness May 5, 2021
To understand patterns of use and interest in quitting different types of tobacco products among youth experiencing homelessness, a RAND team surveyed these youth in Los Angeles County to inform efforts to reduce their use of tobacco products.
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Did Experience with Digital Instructional Materials Help Teachers Implement Remote Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic? May 4, 2021
In this Data Note, researchers examine teachers' use of digital and comprehensive curriculum materials during the 2019–2020 school year prior to COVID-19 pandemic disruptions, teachers' perceptions about the extent to which their digital materials connected to their main curricula, and how teachers' use of digital materials prior to the pandemic was connected to teaching and learning during school closures in spring 2020.
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The Exceptional Family Member Program (EFMP): Policy Alignment Between the Department of Defense and the Services May 3, 2021
The Department of Defense (DoD) Exceptional Family Member Program (EFMP) provides resources and support to military families who have a dependent member with special needs. Because each military service branch runs its own EFMP, the authors compare service branch EFMP policy with the overarching DoD policy. Their analysis identifies areas where DoD or service policy could be edited or refined for greater consistency across policies.
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Messaging Strategies for Mitigating COVID-19 Through Vaccination and Nonpharmaceutical Interventions April 30, 2021
This Perspective addresses the importance of effectively matching the message, the audience, and the sender to encourage people to get a COVID-19 vaccine. It offers suggestions about how to leverage variations between individuals in such factors as risk perception and variation among U.S. subcultures for tendencies to follow rules or act for the collective good. It further discusses how to deal with misinformation.
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Detecting Conspiracy Theories on Social Media: Improving Machine Learning to Detect and Understand Online Conspiracy Theories April 29, 2021
Conspiracy theories circulated online contribute to a shift in public discourse away from facts and analysis and can contribute to public harm. Using linguistic and rhetorical theory, RAND researchers conducted a modeling effort to improve machine-learning technology for detecting conspiracy theory language. This report describes the results of that effort and offers recommendations to counter the effects of online conspiracy theories.
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Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial of a Text Messaging-Based Intervention for Smoking Cessation Among Young People Experiencing Homelessness April 28, 2021
This is the first study to evaluate the feasibility of using a text messaging-based intervention (TMI) for behavior change with 18–25 year olds experiencing homelessness, and the first to test a TMI to provide ongoing support for smoking cessation.
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Responsible Space Behavior for the New Space Era: Preserving the Province of Humanity April 26, 2021
The past two decades have seen the start of a New Space Era characterized by more spacefaring nations and companies and a growing risk of collisions and conflict, yet the basic mechanisms for governing space activities have only marginally changed since their creation 50 years ago. The authors of this Perspective assess problem areas and barriers to progress and offer suggestions to improve space governance and responsible space behavior.
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Societal Impact of Research Funding for Women's Health in Alzheimer's Disease and Alzheimer's Disease–Related Dementias April 22, 2021
Without information on the potential return on investment for women's health research, stakeholders lack a basis for altering research investments to improve knowledge of women's health. In this report, the authors examine the societal cost impact of increasing research funding in Alzheimer's disease and Alzheimer's disease–related dementias and find that investing in women's health research yields benefits beyond investing in general research.