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.

2022

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  Adult Psychiatric Bed Capacity, Need, and Shortage Estimates in California—2021 January 18, 2022

  Ryan K. McBain, Jonathan H. Cantor, Nicole K. Eberhart, Shreya S. Huilgol, Ingrid Estrada-Darley

  This report presents an evaluation of California's psychiatric bed needs in 2021 and the coming years. California, like many states, is confronting a psychiatric bed shortage. To strategically build capacity, the state must understand its psychiatric bed needs. The authors examine California's adult bed capacity, need, and the gap between them at three levels of inpatient and residential care: acute, subacute, and community residential services.

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  Developing Strategic Plans for Defense Human Resource Management: Case Study of Planning in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness January 18, 2022

  Charles A. Goldman, John D. Winkler, Nathan Thompson

  The authors identified a set of principles to aid leaders of public sector organizations, particularly those charged with the management of defense human resources, in developing and implementing sound strategic plans to focus and guide activities. They assessed the degree to which the principles have been applied in strategic planning activities for the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness between 2001 and 2020.

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  Decoupling from China: How U.S. Asian Allies Responded to the Huawei Ban January 6, 2022

  Ji-Young Lee, Eugeniu Han, Keren Zhu

  The paper analyzes how Australia, Japan, and South Korea responded to Washington's expectations of mutual support on the decoupling of Chinese technology companies from global supply chains.

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  Estimating the Cost of Industry Investment in Drug Research and Development: A Review of Methods and Results April 22, 2022

  Stephanie Rennane, Lawrence Baker, Andrew W. Mulcahy

  We review and synthesize papers estimating drug R&D costs incurred by industry. We find a substantial range of per-drug costs, from $113 million–$6 billion. We discuss the data sources, methods, and assumptions used in each study and suggest areas for future research and data collection.

2021

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  Addressing Emerging Technology Adoption in Food Production through Digital Games December 29, 2021

  Patricia A. Stapleton, Padmaja Vedula, Jalal Awan, Jonathan Lamb, Timothy R. Gulden, Jonathan W. Welburn

  Examines how blockchain, the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence with machine learning, and satellite imaging are being or could be implemented to decrease uncertainty and mitigate risks to support agricultural production and distribution.

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  COVID-19 in the California Workers' Compensation System: A Study of COVID-19 Claims and Presumptions Under Senate Bill 1159 December 29, 2021

  Denise D. Quigley, Michael Dworsky, Nabeel Qureshi, Shannon Prier, Courtney A. Gidengil

  The authors use a mixed-methods (including both qualitative and quantitative methods) approach to evaluate the overall effects of COVID-19 claims on the California workers' compensation system and on the payment of workers' compensation benefits. They also analyze the effects of the different presumptions for COVID-19 established by Senate Bill 1159 and describe patterns of COVID-19 claim filing and claim outcomes by industry and occupation.

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  Adaptive Water Management in the Face of Uncertainty: Integrating Machine Learning, Groundwater Modeling and Robust Decision Making December 21, 2021

  Michelle E. Miro, David G. Groves, Bob Tincher, James Syme, Stephanie Tanverakul, David Catt

  This study examines climate change and water resources management challenges facing water suppliers in drought-prone regions.

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  Early Insights from the Equity-First Vaccination Initiative December 20, 2021

  Laura J. Faherty, Jeanne S. Ringel, Malcolm V. Williams, Ashley M. Kranz, Lilian Perez, Lucy B. Schulson, Allyson D. Gittens, Brian Phillips, Lawrence Baker, Priya Gandhi, et al.

  The Equity-First Vaccination Initiative aims to reduce racial/ethnic disparities in COVID-19 vaccination rates in the United States. Five demonstration sites are using hyper-local, community-led strategies to increase vaccine confidence and access.

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  Recalibrating the Belt and Road Initiative Amidst Deep Uncertainties December 9, 2021

  Keren Zhu, Rui Shi, Robert J. Lempert

  We describe the deep uncertainties affecting Belt and Road Initiative decision making, and identify drawbacks of existing BRI policy analysis in light of its future challenges.

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  Addressing Climate Migration: A Review of National Policy Approaches December 7, 2021

  Jonathan S. Blake, Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, Jay Balagna

  In this paper, RAND researchers provide a framework for understanding how nation-states are developing policies to respond to climate migration and mobility. They review related policies in Bangladesh, Kiribati, Kenya, Norway, the United States, and Vanuatu. These findings can provide policymakers with high-level options when considering the broad needs of climate migrants and their host communities and when designing their own policies.

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  New York State 1115 Demonstration Independent Evaluation: Interim Report December 2, 2021

  Harry H. Liu, Andrew W. Dick, Nabeel Qureshi, Sangita M. Baxi, Katherine J. Roberts, J. Scott Ashwood, Laura A. Guerra, Teague Ruder, Regina A. Shih

  New York State's Medicaid Section 1115 Waiver seeks to enroll a majority of Medicaid beneficiaries into managed care, increase access and service quality, and expand coverage to more low-income New Yorkers. This final interim evaluation report examines whether two components of the 1115 Demonstration Waiver—the Managed Long-Term Care (MLTC) program and the 12-month continuous eligibility policy—have helped achieve the program's goals.

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  The Online Extremist Ecosystem: Its Evolution and a Framework for Separating Extreme from Mainstream December 2, 2021

  Heather J. Williams, Alexandra T. Evans, Jamie Ryan, Erik E. Mueller, Bryce Downing

  The authors describe how the internet has become a safe harbor for white supremacist and other extremist views and introduce a framework with which internet users can categorize the platforms they encounter and navigate around high-traffic nodes of the extremist ecosystem.

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  Addressing Anti-Asian Racism in the Era of COVID-19: Next Steps for a Research Agenda November 30, 2021

  Lu Dong, Jennifer Bouey, Douglas Yeung, Peggy G. Chen, Priya Gandhi

  Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Asian Americans have faced a wave of racism and hate incidents. The authors assess knowledge gaps around such racism and associated acts of violence and propose possible solutions to address it by conducting 20 semi-structured interviews with diverse stakeholders to identify key themes about the causes of, reaction to, and mitigation measures against anti-Asian racism in the context of the pandemic and beyond.

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  Implementing China's Grand Strategy in Asia Through Institutions: An Exploratory Analysis November 29, 2021

  Rafiq Dossani, Lynn Hu, Christian Curriden

  China's economic growth has led to a rise in its regional and global ambitions. In this report, the authors review the literature on China's grand strategy, its use of institutions, and its emphasis on Asia. Drawing on the input of policy experts, the authors discuss China's use of institutions in implementing its grand strategy toward Asian nations of interest to China, including, as a case study, the countries of the Korean Peninsula.

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  Run Uphill for a Tsunami, Downhill for a Landslide November 12, 2021

  Lisa Busch, Robert J. Lempert, Max Izenberg, Annette Patton

  Following fatal landslides, the town of Sitka, Alaska, worked with scientists to create a new, individualized hazard warning system, revealing the complexities of coproducing knowledge.

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  Temporary Safety-Net Policies and Pandemic-Related Insurance Loss in New York State November 12, 2021

  Christine Eibner, Jodi L. Liu, Carter C. Price, Nabeel Qureshi, Raffaele Vardavas

  The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic–related recession and resulting job loss raised significant concerns that the U.S. uninsured population could increase, perhaps by millions. However, worrisome predictions about coverage loss have not materialized. RAND researchers (1) assess the importance of temporary provisions in stabilizing health insurance enrollment despite heavy job loss and (2) run simulations using New York state as a case study.

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  Seeking Balance in the Provision of Technical Assistance: Insights from the National Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety November 9, 2021

  Stephani L. Wrabel, Susan Bush-Mecenas, Ashley Woo

  The authors examine the first three years of operation for the Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety (CISELSS). They explore how CISELSS balanced competing pressures and shifting contextual conditions in the provision of technical assistance to state and local education agencies and offer insights about CISELSS's early implementation that might help guide efforts to continuously improve its provision of supports.

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  Access to Health Care Among TRICARE-Covered Children November 8, 2021

  Joachim O. Hero, Courtney A. Gidengil, Nabeel Qureshi, Terri Tanielian, Carrie M. Farmer

  TRICARE-covered children face challenges accessing health care, with the greatest challenges among children who have experienced frequent relocations and children with special health care needs. Analyses of survey data allow a comparison between children with TRICARE and other types of insurance, as well as between children who have changed addresses more and less frequently and between children with special health care needs and those without.

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  Reopening California: Seeking Robust, Non-Dominated COVID-19 Exit Strategies November 5, 2021

  Pedro Nascimento de Lima, Robert J. Lempert, Raffaele Vardavas, Lawrence Baker, Jeanne S. Ringel, Carolyn M. Rutter, Jonathan Ozik, Nicholson Collier

  This paper uses simulation models and the Robust Decision Making (RDM) approach to stress-test California's reopening strategy and other alternatives over a wide range of futures.

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  Association Between COVID-19 Relief Funds and Hospital Characteristics in the US November 2, 2021

  Jonathan H. Cantor, Nabeel Qureshi, Brian Briscombe, Justin Chapman, Christopher M. Whaley

  CARES Act funds may have disproportionately gone to hospitals that were in a stronger financial situation prior to the pandemic compared to those that were not.

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