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.

2018

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  Breaking Down Barriers: Experiments into Policies That Might Incentivize Employers to Hire Ex-Offenders January 15, 2018

  Priscillia Hunt, Rosanna Smart, Lisa Jonsson, Flavia Tsang

  The rate of criminal punishment in the United States has had far-reaching economic consequences, in large part because people with criminal records are marginalized within the labor market. To inform policies and programs aimed at improving employment rates for ex-offenders, we examined employer preferences regarding policy options targeted to incentivize hiring individuals with one nonviolent felony conviction.

2017

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  U.S. Military Capabilities and Forces for a Dangerous World: Rethinking the U.S. Approach to Force Planning November 28, 2018

  David Ochmanek, Peter A. Wilson, Brenna Allen, John Speed Meyers, Carter C. Price

  This report evaluates the capabilities of current and programmed U.S. forces to meet the demands of conflicts that could arise involving any of five potential adversaries. The report finds that U.S. forces today are larger than needed to fight a single war, are failing to keep pace with the forces of great power adversaries, are poorly postured to meet key challenges in Europe and East Asia, and are insufficiently trained and ready.

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  A Simulation Assessment of Methods to Infer Cultural Transmission on Dark Networks October 18, 2018

  Rouslan I. Karimov, Luke J. Matthews

  This study uses a comprehensive set of simulations to test three statistical approaches commonly used to infer social transmission of beliefs, behaviors, or information on illicit networks.

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  Understanding Scientists' Computational Modeling Decisions About Climate Risk Management Strategies Using Values-Informed Mental Models March 7, 2018

  Lauren A. Mayer, Kathleen Loa, Bryan Cwik, Nancy Tuana, Klaus Keller, Chad Gonnerman, Andrew M. Parker, Robert J. Lempert

  This study used values-informed mental models (ViMM) to capture how a set of scientists thinks about modeling CRM strategy tradeoffs and how their values influence this thinking.

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  Understanding the Economic Benefit Associated with Research and Services at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health: An Approach and Three Case Studies January 2, 2018

  Benjamin M. Miller, David Metz, Troy D. Smith, Jesse Lastunen, Eric Landree, Christopher Nelson

  The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) asked the RAND Corporation to develop an approach, reported here, for estimating the economic benefit of NIOSH research, using three case studies. The cases provide concrete illustrations of the ways in which NIOSH research could affect worker health and safety practices and outcomes, as well as some initial estimates of the economic benefit associated with those impacts.

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  Housing for Health: A State-of-the-Art Program for Reducing Homelessness in Los Angeles County December 27, 2017

  Sarah B. Hunter, Melody Harvey, Brian Briscombe, Matthew Cefalu

  This research brief summarizes the findings of a report on Los Angeles County's Housing for Health program and its effects on county costs and on the physical and mental health of people experiencing homelessness.

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  Improving Children's Lives: Balancing Investments in Prevention and Treatment in the Child Welfare System December 11, 2017

  Jeanne S. Ringel, Dana Schultz, Joshua Mendelsohn, Stephanie Brooks Holliday, Katharine Sieck, Ifeanyi Edochie, Lauren Davis

  RAND researchers' model of the child welfare system shows that increasing prevention while also increasing treatment improves system experience and long-term outcomes while paying for itself by reducing lifetime child welfare system costs.

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  Improving Child Welfare Outcomes: Balancing Investments in Prevention and Treatment December 11, 2017

  Jeanne S. Ringel, Dana Schultz, Joshua Mendelsohn, Stephanie Brooks Holliday, Katharine Sieck, Ifeanyi Edochie, Lauren Davis

  To analyze the effects of prevention and treatment programs on child welfare outcomes, RAND researchers built a quantitative model simulating how children enter and flow through the nation's child welfare system. They then projected how different policy options (preventive services, family preservation treatment efforts, and kinship care treatment efforts) would affect a child's pathway through the system, costs, and early adulthood outcomes.

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  What Role Does Efficiency Play in Understanding the Relationship Between Cost and Quality in Physician Organizations? December 7, 2017

  Susan M. Paddock, Cheryl L. Damberg, Dolores Yanagihara, John L. Adams, Lane F. Burgette, Jose J. Escarce

  We observed differences among physician organizations (POs) in the efficiency with which they produce quality. The sources of inefficiency should be identified and these areas targeted for improvement.

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  Care Coordination and Provider Stress in Primary Care Management of High-risk Patients December 7, 2017

  Adeyemi Theophilus Okunogbe, Lisa S. Meredith, Evelyn T. Chang, Alissa Simon, Susan Stockdale, Lisa V. Rubenstein

  Providing adequate support to PCPs and nurses may help reduce the stress they experience when coordinating care for high-risk patients.

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  International Commercial Drone Regulation and Drone Delivery Services December 5, 2017

  Therese Jones

  As unmanned aerial vehicles rapidly evolve, regulators around the world are scrambling to keep up with new uses, capabilities, and technology. The United States has found itself scrambling to satisfy the regulatory relaxation requested by commercial drone companies. The author summarizes the rapidly changing body of commercial drone regulations worldwide and highlights the primary obstacles to delivery drone use in each country.

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  Identifying Promising Approaches to U.S. Army Institutional Change: A Review of the Literature on Organizational Culture and Climate December 5, 2017

  Lisa S. Meredith, Carra S. Sims, Benjamin Saul Batorsky, Adeyemi Theophilus Okunogbe, Brittany L. Bannon, Craig A. Myatt

  This report uses a review of organizational culture literature to help address the U.S. Army's organizational challenges, such as behavioral health treatment stigma, negative workplace behaviors, and participation of women in combat. Researchers identified key drivers of cultural change, and a group of subject matter experts analyzed the results of the literature review by identifying the most important drivers of cultural change for the Army.

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  Evaluation of Housing for Health Permanent Supportive Housing Program December 5, 2017

  Sarah B. Hunter, Melody Harvey, Brian Briscombe, Matthew Cefalu

  Housing for Health (HFH), a division of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, provides supportive housing to patients with complex medical and behavioral issues who are experiencing homelessness. This report assesses HFH's structure and goals and its effects on service use and cost. Our findings suggest HFH has been successfully implemented. Hundreds have been stably housed, and we observed a net cost savings of 20 percent.

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  Investing Early: Taking Stock of Outcomes and Economic Returns from Early Childhood Programs November 16, 2017

  Jill S. Cannon, M. Rebecca Kilburn, Lynn A. Karoly, Teryn Mattox, Ashley N. Muchow, Maya Buenaventura

  This report examines evaluations of early childhood programs that meet criteria for scientific rigor and synthesizes their results to better understand program outcomes, costs, and benefits. It focuses on programs serving children or parents of children from the prenatal period to age 5. The programs reviewed use approaches alone or in combination that include early care and education, home visiting, parent education, and government transfers.

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  Decades of Evidence Demonstrate That Early Childhood Programs Can Benefit Children and Provide Economic Returns November 16, 2017

  Jill S. Cannon, M. Rebecca Kilburn, Lynn A. Karoly, Teryn Mattox, Ashley N. Muchow, Maya Buenaventura

  An updated comprehensive review of rigorous evaluations of early childhood programs confirms and strengthens RAND researchers' findings from previous syntheses showing that many early childhood programs can improve a range of outcomes for children.

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  When Alzheimer's Drugs Arrive, How Prepared Will We Be to Meet Demand? An Assessment of U.S. Health Care Infrastructure November 15, 2017

  Jodi L. Liu, Jakub P. Hlavka, Richard Hillestad, Soeren Mattke

  Drugs to halt the progression of Alzheimer's disease may be available by 2020, but millions of U.S. patients might have to wait more than 14 months for initial appointments in the multistep process unless health care system capacity is increased.

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  Assessing the Preparedness of the U.S. Health Care System Infrastructure for an Alzheimer's Treatment November 15, 2017

  Jodi L. Liu, Jakub P. Hlavka, Richard Hillestad, Soeren Mattke

  Promising early-stage trial results provide hope that a therapy for Alzheimer's disease may become available that can prevent progression to full-blown dementia. But an important challenge will arise: A substantial backlog of existing cases with early-stage disease would have to be screened, diagnosed, and then potentially treated. This report assesses the preparedness of the U.S. health care system to handle the potential caseload.

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  Strategic Planning and the U.S. Air Force: Characteristics of Success November 10, 2017

  Michael J. Mazarr, Jeffrey Eggers, Diana Gehlhaus Carew, Raphael S. Cohen, Caitlin Lee, Rebeca Orrie, Michael Spirtas, Laura Werber, Sean M. Zeigler

  The U.S. Air Force has embarked on a new round of strategic planning under the auspices of its 2015 Strategic Master Plan (SMP). This report represents a general survey of the state of the art in strategy and planning. We found that basic concept and approach of the SMP has promise, but its emphasis on pre-set planning could obstruct, rather than facilitate, its objectives.

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  Cleaning Up Medical Research November 10, 2017

  Jakub P. Hlavka

  Book review of "Rigor Mortis: How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions" by Richard Harris.

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  Governing Academic Medical Center Systems: Choosing Among Alternative Governance Approaches October 10, 2017

  Ramya Chari, Claire E. O'Hanlon, Peggy G. Chen, Kristin J. Leuschner, Christopher Nelson

  This assessment of governance approaches for academic medical centers (AMCs) helped the University of California respond to changes in the funding environment and provides a systematic way for any AMC to weigh the strengths and weaknesses of its governance approaches..

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