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.
Many interventions reduce hospital readmissions, but not all generate cost savings, and many readmissions are in the patients' best interests and not avoidable.
Schools implementing personalized learning were pursuing a wide variety of approaches and students closed achievement gaps relative to national norms. Observed challenges to implementation lead to recommendations for implementers.
This report describes the concept and implementation of personalized learning (instruction that is focused on meeting students' individual learning needs while incorporating their interests and preferences), along with some of the challenges and facilitators, and considers achievement findings in a small sample of schools.
Two surveys of California public college students provide insight into the preliminary impact of the California Mental Health Services Authority's activities on college students' receipt of information about mental health issues and support services.
This report helps inform strategies to recruit women through the results of focus groups with recent recruits and recruiters. We recommend that resources be set aside to specifically target outreach to women, that the services increase the proportion of recruiters who are women and increase their visibility at recruiting events, and that the services work to reduce administrative burdens on recruiters and recruits.
This Perspective reviews the use of lead in Pittsburgh's water system and the policy options for remediation currently being weighed by local decisionmakers. We review the costs, regulatory barriers, and feasibility of the various options under consideration, including the city's new Safe Water Program and multiple pipe replacement options. We conclude with recommendations to reduce the public and private costs of full line replacement.
In California, travel/tourism employs a diverse workforce and contributes meaningfully to the state's economy. This report evaluates the role of travel/tourism in the state's economy. It uses data on the state's tourism and labor force to provide insight about tourism workers in California and how their careers evolve and should be of interest to policymakers and researchers interested in economic development issues and career pathways.
This report focuses on workers' compensation fraud — specifically, providers' intentional manipulation of rules and procedures. The report conceptualizes the sources of and remedies for workers' compensation fraud in California and offers some high-level recommendations for regulators and legislators to consider.
Researchers examined school choice outcomes in New Orleans following 2005's Hurricane Katrina, including exit patterns of students across sectors and school types in New Orleans and the destination schools of mobile students.
RAND Corporation analysts developed an approach for estimating the district resources required to put in place and operate principal pipelines — pipelines for preparing, hiring, supporting, and managing school leaders — based on data they collected from six urban districts that participated in The Wallace Foundation's Principal Pipeline Initiative. This report presents that approach and estimates of those resources and expenditures.
Broad-based school-community partnerships can help address the unmet oral health needs of low-income children.
To better understand who is taking advantage of e-schools and what effects such choices have on achievement, researchers analyzed data from Ohio, which has authorized e-schools since the early 2000s.
College students are at high risk for mental health problems, yet many do not receive treatment even when services are available. Treatment needs may be even higher among sexual minority students, but little is known about how these students differ from heterosexual peers in terms of mental health needs and service utilization.
This Perspective considers how well Executive Order 13771 addresses the concerns of those who have long supported regulatory reform and how agencies and the Office of Management and Budget might best face the challenges and opportunities associated with implementing regulatory reform.
This tutorial explains the syntax and features related to the implementation of the MNPS commands in the Stata TWANG series.
The Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) accounts for two-thirds of Regular Army officer production. As student populations shift and resources tighten, both the productivity and location of ROTC units must be monitored to ensure that the Army attracts and commissions highly-qualified officers. Two new strategic planning tools can help the Army evaluate current ROTC hosts and affiliates and choose new ones.
Consumer devices that automatically and unobtrusively collect data about their users, including cell phones and other mobile devices, are spreading. This report documents a prototype tool created to help interested stakeholders, such as law enforcement, better understand the mobile app ecosystem and the relationships among the data, its sources, and applicable legal constraints.
Regulation, monitoring, and feedback could help owners and operators of Latino food trucks expand and maintain this program to serve healthy meals.
Indexing relative variation in heat-related vulnerability across all of India can help planners, policy makers, and disaster mitigation experts target climate adaptation efforts.
In conclusion and similar to many past evaluations, we find no evidence that the KTS campaign was effective in changing the way in which suicides are reported on in California had any effect.
