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.

2017

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  Recruiting Policies and Practices for Women in the Military: Views from the FieldJune 28, 2017

  Douglas Yeung, Christina Steiner, Chaitra Hardison, Lawrence M. Hanser, Kristy N. Kamarck

  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.

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  Informing Pittsburgh's Options to Address Lead in WaterJune 27, 2017

  Linnea Warren May, Jordan R. Fischbach, Michele Abbott

  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.

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  Provider Fraud in California Workers' Compensation: Selected IssuesJune 26, 2017

  Nicholas M. Pace, Julia Pollak

  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.

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  Does School Choice Mean Students Attend Better Schools? The Case of Post–Hurricane Katrina New OrleansJune 22, 2017

  Richard O. Welsh, Matthew Duque, Andrew McEachin

  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.

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  What It Takes to Operate and Maintain Principal Pipelines: Costs and Other ResourcesJune 20, 2017

  Julia H. Kaufman, Susan M. Gates, Melody Harvey, Yanlin Wang, Mark Kevin Barrett

  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.

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  A School-Based Public Health Model to Reduce Oral Health DisparitiesJune 8, 2017

  Rebecca N. Dudovitz, Paul J. Chung

  Broad-based school-community partnerships can help address the unmet oral health needs of low-income children.

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  Examining Enrollment and Success in Ohio's Online SchoolsJune 8, 2017

  June Ahn, Andrew McEachin

  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.

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  Mental Health Service Utilization Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Questioning or Queer College StudentsJune 2, 2017

  Michael Stephen Dunbar, Lisa Padilla, Rajeev Ramchand, Rachana Seelam, Bradley D. Stein

  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.

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  Inching Toward Reform: Trump's Deregulation and Its ImplementationMay 18, 2017

  Benjamin M. Miller, Frank Camm, Marjory Blumenthal, Jesse Lastunen, Kenneth W. Miller

  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.

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  Propensity Scores for Multiple Treatments: A Tutorial on the MNPS Command for Stata UsersMay 5, 2017

  Matthew Cefalu, Maya Buenaventura

  This tutorial explains the syntax and features related to the implementation of the MNPS commands in the Stata TWANG series.

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  Strategic Planning Tools for the Army Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps ProgramMay 2, 2017

  Nelson Lim, Bruce R. Orvis, Abigail Haddad, Christopher Maerzluft, Kenneth Kuhn, Henu Zhao, Sung-Bou Kim

  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.

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  Helping Law Enforcement Use Data from Mobile Applications: A Guide to the Prototype Mobile Information and Knowledge Ecosystem (MIKE) ToolApril 28, 2017

  Edward Balkovich, Don Prosnitz, Steven C. Isley, Anne E. Boustead, Bonnie Triezenberg

  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.

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  Can Latino Food Trucks (Loncheras) Serve Healthy Meals? A Feasibility StudyApril 26, 2017

  Deborah Cohen, Benjamin Colaiaco, Mary Martinez-Wenzl, Monica Montes, Bing Han, Sandra H. Berry

  Regulation, monitoring, and feedback could help owners and operators of Latino food trucks expand and maintain this program to serve healthy meals.

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  Heat Wave Vulnerability Mapping for IndiaApril 4, 2017

  Gulrez Shah Azhar, Shubhayu Saha, Partha Ganguly, Dileep Mavalankar, Jaime Madrigano

  Indexing relative variation in heat-related vulnerability across all of India can help planners, policy makers, and disaster mitigation experts target climate adaptation efforts.

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  Detecting Changes in Newspaper Reporting of Suicide After a Statewide Social Marketing CampaignApril 4, 2017

  Michele Abbott, Rajeev Ramchand, Margaret Chamberlin, William Marcellino

  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.

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  Student Enrollment Patterns and Achievement in Ohio's Online Charter SchoolsMarch 28, 2017

  June Ahn, Andrew McEachin

  We utilize state data of nearly 1.7 million students in Ohio to study a specific sector of online education: K–12 schools that deliver most, if not all, education online, lack a brick-and-mortar presence, and enroll students full-time. First, we explore e-school enrollment patterns and how these patterns vary by student subgroups and geography. Second, we evaluate the impact of e-schools on students' learning, comparing student outcomes in e-schools to outcomes in two other schooling types, traditional charter schools and traditional public schools.

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  Creating an Indicator of K–12 Classroom Coverage of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Content and PracticesMarch 28, 2017

  Laura S. Hamilton, Brian M. Stecher, Kun Yuan

  In 2013, the National Research Council identified 14 indicators for tracking the nation's progress toward improving science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in the United States. This report explores approaches to measuring indicator 5, classroom coverage of content and practices in the Common Core State Standards for mathematics and the Next Generation Science Standards.

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  Just Right: Restaurants Can Fight Childhood Obesity by Right-Sizing Kids' PortionsMarch 27, 2017

  Deborah Cohen, Lenard I Lesser, Cameron Wright, Mary T. Story, Christina D. Economos

  Infographic summarizing single-serving guidelines to help kids avoid eating too much when eating out. Based on findings published in "Kid's Menu Portion Sizes: How Much Should Children Be Served?" by Deborah A. Cohen, Lenard I. Lesser, Cameron Wright, Mary Story, and Christina D. Economos, Nutrition Today, Vol. 51, No. 6.

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  Use of Open Educational Resources in an Era of Common Standards: A Case Study on the Use of EngageNYMarch 27, 2017

  Julia H. Kaufman, John S. Davis II, Elaine Lin Wang, Lindsey E. Thompson, Joseph D. Pane, Katherine Pfrommer, Mark Harris

  The purpose of this report is to understand the uses of EngageNY in order to shed light on the channels through which open educational resources could better support teachers and the implementation of state standards. We use a variety of data sources to explore who is using EngageNY, reasons for its use, and the extent to which it assists teachers in addressing standards for mathematics and English language arts.

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  Wages, Employment, and STEM Education in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia: Report No. 2 (2017)March 22, 2017

  Gabriella C. Gonzalez, Kyle Siler-Evans, Gerald Hunter, Nicholas Broten

  This second of five annual reports focuses on employment and wages in energy and advanced manufacturing–related industries and on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education in the Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia region. These reports will capture trends about which localities might have greater demand for educating or employing local talent in STEM careers and guide investments and collaborative work.

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