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.
This report provides the survey questions and weighted responses from a July 2021 survey of parents concerning school hesitancy and preferences for COVID-19 safety practices in schools in the United States. The results are intended to inform school districts' and health officials' planning for operating schools in fall 2021.
As targets of information aggression, the United States and its European allies must protect themselves against the effects of psychological manipulation and influence. The authors describe apparent efforts by Russia and its agents to use information to shape Russia's operating environment, and they identify possible defensive approaches for United States European Command and its partners.
Military personnel, police officers, firefighters, and other first responders must prepare for and respond to life-threatening crises on a daily basis, which places stress on personnel. This report presents a systematic review of studies of interventions designed to prevent, identify, and manage acute occupational stress among military, law enforcement, and first responders.
Understanding Russia's grand strategy can help U.S. decisionmakers assess the depth and nature of potential conflicts between Russia and the United States and avoid strategic surprise by better-anticipating Moscow's actions and reactions. The authors of this report review Russia's declared grand strategy, evaluate the extent to which Russian behavior is consistent with stated strategy, and outline implications for the United States.
The authors of this report surveyed 292 school district leaders between June 1, 2021, and July 2, 2021, to ask about staff turnover, staff hiring, and districts' financial outlooks at the end of the 2020–2021 school year. Although districts have not experienced much-feared budget and staffing crises during the pandemic, they might yet.
The American School District Panel (ASDP) is the newest addition to the RAND Corporation's American Educator Panels. This report provides technical information about the June 2021 ASDP survey of district leaders. The authors describe the respondent districts' characteristics and their method for creating survey weights to produce nationally representative estimates.
A total of 292 district leaders from school districts and charter management organizations took the third American School District Panel survey in June 2021. This online tool allows users to select individual survey questions and compare district leaders' responses. Color-coded bar charts display survey results for all respondents and by district type, locale, student racial and ethnicity composition, and district poverty level.
To identify approaches to increase vaccine confidence and uptake among Black Americans, RAND Corporation researchers conducted a national survey with 207 Black participants in November 2020.
In this interim evaluation of the New York State Medicaid program's Children's Design, the authors identify facilitators of, and barriers to, its implementation, describe and delineate baseline trends in outcomes of interest, and assess the feasibility of identifying comparison groups for analyses that will contribute to a summative evaluation of the program.
As conflicts increasingly involve joint operations, joint training becomes more important. Much of it must be simulation-based training (SBT) conducted on systems that allow the services to interoperate. But commercial SBT systems do not always align with military needs, and the services face coordination challenges. The authors of this report examine the gap between joint training needs and current and future resources and offer recommendations.
In this second phase of a two-phase study of data on the Military Spouse Employment Partnership (MSEP) program, the authors conducted a new query of job postings from the online MSEP Career Portal to analyze the jobs from 2016 and compared the geographic distribution of these jobs with the locations of spouses. The authors also interviewed participating employers in 2016 and then surveyed and interviewed spouses who had used the portal in 2019.
Fires in Indonesia contribute to severe air pollution, or haze, that causes public health, environmental, and economic degradation in Indonesia and across equatorial Asia. In this report, the authors present preliminary analysis that explores the drivers of fire activity in Indonesia and quantifies health consequences using a local survey collected in districts located around the country, and conclude with recommendations for future research.
To examine vulnerability to COVID-19 and the pandemic's impacts within a specific community, the RAND Corporation, the Black Equity Coalition, and Surgo Ventures partnered to consider disparities in Allegheny County in southwest Pennsylvania. Researchers created an interactive online tool to show how testing, cases, deaths, and the ability to practice physical distancing have been distributed across neighborhoods and populations.
This report provides an independent assessment of the breadth, scope, and impact of health services and primary care research funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs from FYs 2012 to 2018. The authors identify research gaps and offer recommendations for maximizing the outcomes and value of future investments in health services and primary care research by federal agencies.
This brief discusses findings from several RAND reports on principals' roles with respect to instructional materials. Recommendations describe how stakeholders can prepare and support principals to lead in selecting and using instructional materials.
The authors examine what school leaders regard as the key dimensions of quality instructional materials and describe the role school leaders play in guiding the selection and use of instructional materials. School leaders involve teachers in the selection of instructional materials, create buy-in for district-recommended or -required curriculum, and provide guidance that balances teacher autonomy and the fidelity of curriculum implementation.
Legalization for nonmedical purposes may create new sources of disproportionate harm even as it alleviates some inequities associated with cannabis prohibition.
This report, which describes the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) systems to assist in Air Force command and control (C2) from a technical perspective, presents an analytical framework for assessing the suitability of a given AI system for a given C2 problem. The authors also provide metrics that can be used to evaluate AI systems and to demonstrate and socialize their utility.
This volume serves as the technical analysis to a report concerning the potential for artificial intelligence systems to assist in Air Force command and control (C2). The authors present their analysis of the problem characteristics and solution capabilities described in Volume 1. They provide details about the expert panel used to gather data and three technical case studies that demonstrate a wide range of solutions to various C2 problems.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency have committed to reduce social inequities but lack frameworks, indicators, and metrics for tracking progress. In this report, researchers describe the results of a literature review, the key themes related to conceptual frameworks, and indicators and metrics. They also identify knowledge gaps and provide recommendations for assessing racial equity in these programs.
