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.

2016

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  Identifying Future Disease Hot Spots: Infectious Disease Vulnerability Index September 12, 2016

  Melinda Moore, Bill Gelfeld, Adeyemi Theophilus Okunogbe, Christopher Paul

  Recent high-profile outbreaks such as Ebola and Zika have illustrated the transnational nature of infectious diseases. Countries that are most vulnerable to outbreaks may be higher priorities for technical support. RAND's Infectious Disease Vulnerability Index should help U.S. government and international agencies identify these countries and inform programming to preemptively mitigate the spread and effects of potential transnational outbreaks.

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  A Systematic Review of St. John's Wort for Major Depressive Disorder September 8, 2016

  Eric Apaydin, Alicia Ruelaz Maher, Roberta M. Shanman, Marika Booth, Jeremy N. V. Miles, Melony E. Sorbero, Susanne Hempel

  A systematic review evaluated the efficacy and safety of St. John's wort (SJW) in adults with major depressive disorder (MDD) compared to placebo and active comparator and whether the effects vary by severity of MDD.

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  Supporting UK Service leavers and their families in the transition to civilian life September 8, 2016

  Susanne Sondergaard, Kate Cox, Erik Silfversten, Brent Anderson, Catherine Meads, Agnes Gereben Schaefer, Jody Larkin

  RAND Europe was commissioned by the Forces in Mind Trust to conduct a systematic review to develop a better understanding of the evidence base around four themes associated with the transition into civilian life for UK Service leaver families.

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  Families Support to Transition: A Systematic Review of the Evidence September 8, 2016

  Susanne Sondergaard, Kate Cox, Erik Silfversten, Brent Anderson, Catherine Meads, Agnes Gereben Schaefer, Jody Larkin

  The Forces in Mind Trust commissioned RAND Europe to conduct a systematic review of literature on UK Service leaver families' into civilian life. The study examined the evidence base across four thematic areas: engagement with families, family breakdown, family housing and spousal employment. The review identifies areas where evidence is lacking and presents a series of recommendations for future research.

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  Trends in Impact on Student Outcomes: The Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching Through 2013–2014 September 7, 2016

  Italo A. Gutierrez, Gabriel Weinberger, John Engberg

  Researchers evaluated the impact of key reform elements of Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching in three public school districts. This brief summarizes an interim evaluation report.

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  Improving Teaching Effectiveness: Impact on Student Outcomes: The Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching Through 2013–2014 September 7, 2016

  Italo A. Gutierrez, Gabriel Weinberger, John Engberg

  This report estimates the Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching initiative's effect on student outcomes in Hillsborough County (Florida) Public Schools, Memphis City Schools, and Pittsburgh Public Schools through the 2013–2014 school year. The initiative guides personnel practices in staffing, professional development, and compensation and career-ladder decisions in hopes of giving every student access to highly effective teachers.

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  General Medical Outcomes from the Primary and Behavioral Health Care Integration Grant Program August 29, 2016

  Deborah M. Scharf, Nicole Schmidt Hackbarth, Nicole K. Eberhart, Marcela Horvitz-Lennon, Robin L. Beckman, Bing Han, Harold Alan Pincus, M. Audrey Burnam

  Rigorous integration of primary and preventive medical services into behavioral health settings may help improve medical outcomes for people with serious mental illness.

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  Implementing Exercise Programs to Prevent Falls: Systematic Descriptive Review August 29, 2016

  Victoria Shier, Eric Trieu, David A. Ganz

  Identifying key characteristics of successful fall prevention exercise programs can help clinicians and health system leaders link patients to appropriate community-based programs.

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  Engineering a Roadmap for Health Information Technology in Chile August 25, 2016

  Erin Audrey Taylor, Shira H. Fischer, Tadeja Gracner, Ivo Tejeda, Alice Kim, Emilio R. Chavez-Herrerias, Fernando Hoces de la Guardia

  Describes a roadmap with five objectives for the Chilean government to expand its health information technology (IT) capabilities over the next ten years.

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  Air Force Management of the Defense Acquisition Workforce Development Fund: Opportunities for Improvement August 23, 2016

  John A. Ausink, Lisa M. Harrington, Laura Werber, William A. Williams, John E. Boon, Jr., Michael H. Powell

  Since the establishment of the Defense Acquisition Workforce Development Fund (DAWDF), the U.S. Air Force's Director of Acquisition Career Management (DACM) has received funds sufficient to pay for all initiatives that satisfy DAWDF criteria. Recognizing that this will not always be the case, the DACM asked the RAND Corporation to develop a decision framework to help prioritize DAWDF initiatives and ensure that the funds are used effectively.

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  Can We Explain Gender Differences in Officer Career Progression? August 17, 2016

  Beth J. Asch, Trey Miller, Gabriel Weinberger

  The report provides a quantitative analysis of the differences in the career progression of officers based on gender, as well as the factors that explain these differences. Gender differences in career progression can be partly explained by differences in job-related and individual characteristics, such as occupation and marital status, and partly by differences in the association between these characteristics and career progression.

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  Enabling the Global Response Force: Access Strategies for the 82nd Airborne Division July 28, 2016

  Christopher G. Pernin, Katharina Ley Best, Matthew E. Boyer, Jeremy M. Eckhause, John Gordon IV, Dan Madden, Katherine Pfrommer, Anthony D. Rosello, Michael Schwille, Michael Shurkin, et al.

  The Global Response Force (GRF) is built for rapid response to unforeseen operations. This study determined access strategies for each geographic combatant command given constraints in aircraft, intermediate staging bases, operational capabilities, and other factors. Global access requires both well-established and austere staging bases; complex joint deployment concepts are necessary to ensure access.

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  Employment Gaps Between Military Spouses and Matched Civilians July 26, 2016

  Sarah O. Meadows, Beth Ann Griffin, Benjamin Karney, Julia Pollak

  Drawing upon data from the Deployment Life Study, this article examines whether female military spouses (SPs) are disadvantaged relative to matched civilian peers in terms of hours worked and earnings, paying particular attention to gaps among the highest educated women.

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  How Effective Are Military Academy Admission Standards? July 22, 2016

  Chaitra M. Hardison, Susan Burkhauser, Lawrence M. Hanser, Mustafa Oguz

  This brief summarizes the results of analysis of the applicant scoring systems that the U.S. Military Academy and U.S. Air Force Academy use for admission.

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  United States Service Academy Admissions: Selecting for Success at the Air Force Academy and as an Officer July 22, 2016

  Chaitra M. Hardison, Susan Burkhauser, Lawrence M. Hanser

  This report examines admission standards at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) and officer outcomes to evaluate whether the USAFA admissions formula should be adjusted. USAFA admissions are partly determined based on scores calculated as a weighted combination of three elements: academic composite, leadership composite, and selection panel score. The data included records on the nearly 35,000 cadets who attended USAFA from 1980 to 2011.

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  Assessing the Ability of the Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs to Support the Afghan Local Police July 21, 2016

  Jefferson P. Marquis, Sean Duggan, Brian J. Gordon, Lisa Kraus

  RAND researchers assess the ability of the Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs to support the Afghan Local Police program; evaluate the range of logistics, personnel management, and training activities essential to the success of the program's local security mission; and identify lessons from support to the program that might prove useful when undertaking similar efforts to help build local security forces in the future.

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  Improving Decision Support for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control: Aligning Models and Other Tools with Policymakers' Needs July 12, 2016

  David Manheim, Margaret Chamberlin, Osonde A. Osoba, Raffaele Vardavas, Melinda Moore

  This report provides an overview of decision-support tools, including models and nonmodeling approaches, to inform both modelers and policymakers. It offers ways to use these tools to help address real-world policy questions related to infectious disease prevention, detection, control, and response and recommends best practices for technical experts and policymakers to collaborate in developing and using the tools.

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  Costs of Extending the Noncontributory Pension Program for Elderly: The Mexican Case July 12, 2016

  Emma Aguila, Nelly Josefina Mejia Gonzalez, Francisco Perez-Arce, Edgar Ramirez, Alfonso Rivera Illingworth

  This article reviews a non-contributory pension program introduced in Mexico in 2007 that has since expanded greatly.

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  Characterizing National Exposures to Infrastructure from Natural Disasters: Data and Methods Documentation July 12, 2016

  Anu Narayanan, Henry H. Willis, Jordan R. Fischbach, Drake Warren, Edmundo Molina-Perez, Chuck Stelzner, Kathleen Loa, Lauren Kendrick, Paul Sorensen, Tom LaTourrette

  This report serves as the technical documentation and reference document for the data, methods, and analytic approach used in the analysis of national exposures to infrastructure from natural disasters. The analysis includes 11 natural hazards and five infrastructure sectors. Analytic findings about current and future exposures of infrastructure in the United States drawn from this data analysis are documented in a separate report.

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  Current and Future Exposure of Infrastructure in the United States to Natural Hazards July 12, 2016

  Henry H. Willis, Anu Narayanan, Jordan R. Fischbach, Edmundo Molina-Perez, Chuck Stelzner, Kathleen Loa, Lauren Kendrick

  Communities, companies, and governments at all levels in the United States are making decisions that will influence where, what and how infrastructure will be built. This report describes insights about exposures from natural hazards now and in the future, as well as gaps in data that, if filled, could improve the nation's ability to assess infrastructure risk and improve infrastructure resilience.

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