Publications
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Insurance Class Actions in the United States
(2007)
Class actions, which are civil cases in which parties initiate a lawsuit on behalf of other plaintiffs not specifically named in the complaint, often make headlines and arouse policy debates. However, policymakers and the ...
Counterinsurgency in a Test Tube
(2007)
The Regional Assistance Mission to Solomon Islands (RAMSI), which began on July 24, 2003, has been a remarkable success, in part because of the consistency of its message, the strength of its leadership, and its uncommon ...
Evaluation of the New York City Police Department Firearm Training and Firearm-Discharge Review Process
(2008)
In January 2007, New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly asked the RAND Corporation to examine the quality and completeness of the New York City Police Department's firearm-training program and identify potential ...
Revitalizing Arts Education Through Community-Wide Coordination
(2008)
Initiatives to coordinate schools, cultural institutions, community-based organizations, foundations, and/or government agencies to promote access to arts education in and outside of schools have recently developed. This ...
Portfolio-Analysis Methods for Assessing Capability Options
(2008)
An analytical framework and methodology for capability-area reviews is described, along with new tools to support capabilities analysis and strategic-level defense planning in the Defense Department and the Services. BCOT ...
Increasing Aircraft Carrier Forward Presence
(2008)
The U.S. Navy's aircraft carrier fleet must meet the forward presence requirements of theater commanders. With a decreasing fleet size, planners must balance the timing of maintenance, training, and deployment with presence ...
A Common Operating Picture for Air Force Materiel Sustainment
(2008)
Describes a potential common operating system (COP) for the Air Force materiel sustainment system (MSS). The authors first develop a COP based on the principles of effects-based measures, schwerpunkt (organizational focus), ...
Small Ships in Theater Security Cooperation
(2008)
The authors evaluate the use of small ships in theater security cooperation (TSC). They provide the U.S. Navy with a concept of operation for small ships in TSC, necessary small ship characteristics, a survey of suitable ...
Invisible Wounds of War
(2008)
Summarizes key findings and recommendations from Invisible Wounds of War: Psychological and Cognitive Injuries, Their Consequences, and Services to Assist Recovery (Tanielian and Jaycox [Eds.], MG-720-CCF, 2008), a ...
The Challenge of Nuclear-Armed Regional Adversaries
(2008)
Deterrence of nuclear use through the threat of retaliation could be highly problematic in many plausible conflict scenarios with nuclear-armed regional adversaries. This could compel U.S. leaders to temper their military ...
Modernizing the North Korean System
(2008)
Six institutions in five countries that have key interests in North Korea's future undertook a collaborative effort to determine ways in which the North Korean system could move toward modernization. The effort produced ...
In Athena's Camp
(1997)
The information revolution--which is as much an organizational as a technological revolution--is transforming the nature of conflict across the spectrum: from open warfare, to terrorism, crime, and even radical social ...
Lessons from the Field
(2009)
Central to Qatar's education reform was the development of internationally benchmarked curriculum standards and standards-based assessments in four subjects: Arabic, English as a foreign language, mathematics, and science. ...
The Cutting Edge
(1998)
The proposition that innovation is critical in the cost-effective design and development of successful military aircraft is still subject to some debate. RAND research indicates that innovation is promoted by intense ...
Strategic Information Warfare
(1996)
Future U.S. national security strategy is likely to be profoundly affected by the ongoing, rapid evolution of cyberspace--the global information infrastructure--and in particular by the growing dependence of the U.S. ...
Federal Financial Incentives to Induce Early Experience Producing Unconventional Liquid Fuels
(2008)
The government, as a principal, may seek to induce a private investor, as anagent, to build and operate an unconventional-oil production plant topromote early production experience with such plants. Facing significantuncertainty ...
Thinking About America's Defense
(2008)
Lieutenant General Glenn A. Kent was a uniquely acute analyst and developerof American defense policy in the second half of the twentieth century. His33-year career in the Air Force was followed by more than 20 years as ...
Understanding Forfeitures
(2009)
The Treasury Executive Office for Asset Forfeiture (TEOAF) administers the Treasury Forfeiture Fund (TFF), which receives deposits of nontax forfeitures made by current and former Treasury agencies. Participating agencies ...
Emerging Threats and Security Planning
(2009)
Concerns about how terrorists might attack in the future are central to the design of security efforts to protect both individual targets and the nation overall. This paper explores an approach for assessing novel or ...
Adjusting to Global Economic Change
(2009)
The author combines macroeconomic history since the Great Depression with a brief exposition of economic theory that stems from and explains that history, and explores how that experience may apply to the present economic ...
Implementation Actions for Improving Air Force Command and Control Through Enhanced Agile Combat Support Planning, Execution, Monitoring, and Control Processes
(2014)
Using the architecture developed as a companion piece to this analysis, this report identifies and describes where shortfalls exist between current agile combat support (ACS) processes and the vision for integrating enhanced ...
An Operational Architecture for Improving Air Force Command and Control Through Enhanced Agile Combat Support Planning, Execution, Monitoring, and Control Processes
(2014)
Currently, agile combat support (ACS) planning, execution, monitoring, and control processes are poorly integrated with operational planning processes and have little ability to show how resource allocation decisions would ...
Assessing Locally Focused Stability Operations
(2014)
This report describes how to best measure and assess the progress and outcomes of locally focused stability operations (LFSO)—the missions, tasks, and activities that create stability by building security, governance, and ...
Evaluation of the California Mental Health Services Authority's Prevention and Early Intervention Initiatives
(2014)
Evaluates the progress of the California Mental Health Services Authority’s statewide Prevention and Early Intervention initiatives and establishes a baseline for risk factors and long-term outcomes that the initiatives target.
Nutritional Fitness and Resilience
(2014)
This report is one of a series designed to support Air Force leaders in promoting resilience among its Airmen, civilian employees, and Air Force families. It examines the relationship between nutritional fitness and ...
How Deployments Affect the Capacity and Utilization of Army Treatment Facilities
(2014)
The Army wished to understand whether the Army’s Force Generation (ARFORGEN) cycle created ebbs and flows in the ability of military treatment facilities to provide care and respond to changing family needs as soldiers and ...
Enhanced Army Airborne Forces
(2014)
A RAND research team examined options to increase the mobility, protection, and firepower of Army airborne forces, given likely future missions and threats, and identified a concept for enhancing today’s forces by adding ...
Mental Health Stigma in the Military
(2014)
This report assesses the U.S. military’s approach to reducing stigma for mental health disorders and their treatment, how well it is working, and how it might be improved. It presents priorities for program and policy ...
Balancing Agile Combat Support Manpower to Better Meet the Future Security Environment
(2014)
This report proposes new metrics to measure expeditionary agile combat support (ACS) capacity and uses these metrics to assess the capacity of the current ACS manpower mix to support expeditionary operations, finding that ...
Measuring Deeper Learning Through Cognitively Demanding Test Items
(2014)
Two test consortia are developing a next generation of tests to measure students’ attainment of the Common Core State Standards. These tests are expected to assess greater deeper learning skills than existing large-scale ...
RAND Suicide Prevention Program Evaluation Toolkit
(2013)
Evaluating suicide prevention programs can be challenging because suicide is a rare event and prevention programs are often complex and multifaceted. The RAND Suicide Prevention Program Evaluation Toolkit uses checklists, ...
Developing Navy Capability to Recover Forces in Chemical, Biological, and Radiological Hazard Environments
(2013)
Recovering amphibious forces can be complicated if ashore forces come under attack from enemy weapons, particularly chemical, biological, or radiological weapons. This report assesses current policies and capabilities ...
Measuring Success in Health Care Value-Based Purchasing Programs
(2014)
Value-based purchasing (VBP) refers to a broad set of performance-based payment strategies that link financial incentives to health care providers’ performance on a set of defined measures in an effort to achieve better ...
Redirecting Innovation in U.S. Health Care
(2014)
New medical technologies are a leading driver of U.S. health care spending. This report identifies promising policy options to change which medical technologies are created, with two related policy goals: (1) Reduce total ...
Hidden Heroes
(2014)
Little has been reported about “military caregivers"—the population of those who care for wounded, ill, and injured military personnel and veterans. This report summarizes the results of a study designed to describe the ...
Countering Others' Insurgencies
(2014)
This report describes counterinsurgency strategies and practices and conditions in which U.S. “small-footprint” partnerships may succeed. Successful U.S. operations have been concentrated in favorable conditions, but most ...
National Security Perspectives on Terrorism Risk Insurance in the United States
(2014)
Congress enacted the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) in 2002, in response to terrorism insurance becoming unavailable or extremely costly in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. TRIA is set to expire at the end of 2014, and ...
Why Is Veteran Unemployment So High?
(2014)
Between 2000 and 2011, younger veterans were more likely to be unemployed than younger non-veterans. This difference falls rapidly with age and time. The evidence supports the hypothesis that veteran unemployment reflects ...
Evaluation of California's Statewide Mental Health Prevention and Early Intervention Programs
(2015)
This report summarizes key findings from the second year of an evaluation of the California Mental Health Services Authority’s statewide prevention and early intervention programs.
Developing Robust Strategies for Climate Change and Other Risks
(2014)
RAND researchers and collaborators present a comprehensive approach for water utilities to assess climate risks to their systems and evaluate adaptation strategies. The approach, based on Robust Decision Making, is ...
Using Workforce Information for Degree Program Planning in Texas
(2015)
This report for the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board describes current practices in using workforce information for degree program planning in Texas and elsewhere, analyzes options for using workforce information, ...
Fostering Innovation in Community and Institutional Corrections
(2015)
Given the challenges posed to the U.S. corrections sector, such as tightened budgets and increasingly complex populations under its charge, it is valuable to identify opportunities where changes in tools, practices, or ...
Geographic Targeting in Urban Areas: A Social-Welfare Program for Older People in Mexico
(2014)
This report details a comparison of the results of a social-gap index based on local and social observations at the block level with other marginalization and social-gap rates used to target social-welfare programs in ...
Developing and Testing Informed-Consent Methods in a Study of the Elderly in Mexico
(2015)
This report documents the process one research team developed to obtain informed consent from those choosing to participate in the research, norms and regulations for conducting research involving human subjects in the ...
The Effect of Eliminating the Affordable Care Act’s Tax Credits in Federally Facilitated Marketplaces
(2015)
In this research report, RAND Corporation researchers assess the expected change in enrollment and premiums in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act–compliant individual market in federally facilitated marketplace ...
Reviewing the Evidence Base for Mental Health First Aid
(2015)
This report reviews the current state of evidence for Mental Health First Aid’s effectiveness in key target populations, to help the California Mental Health Services Authority’s planning for future prevention and early ...
Gatekeeper Training for Suicide Prevention
(2015)
In recent years, the rising rate of suicides by military personnel has generated concern among policymakers, military leaders, and the public at large. Based on a recommendation from an earlier RAND report on preventing ...
Transforming an Urban School System
(2014)
In the 2010–2011 school year, two educational programs launched in New Haven, Connecticut: New Haven School Change, a sweeping K–12 educational reform to improve the learning of educational outcomes of its students, and ...
Recommendations for Sustaining California's Statewide Mental Health Prevention and Early Intervention Programs
(2014)
Provides preliminary advice about which of the California Mental Health Services Authority’s Prevention and Early Intervention activities seem most valuable to sustain or, in some cases, enhance.
Advancing the Careers of Military Spouses
(2015)
The authors compare recent users and nonusers of My Career Advancement Account (MyCAA), a scholarship program for eligible military spouses pursuing associate’s degrees, occupational certificates, or licenses in portable ...
Barriers to Enrollment in Health Coverage in Colorado
(2014)
Although, under the Affordable Care Act, Colorado has expanded Medicaid and also now operates its own health insurance exchange for individuals, there continues to be a diverse mix of individuals in Colorado who remain ...
Emergency Department Patient Experience of Care Survey
(2014)
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have implemented Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS®) surveys to assess patient experience in a number of settings. Following CAHPS principles, RAND ...
Shining a Light on State Campaign Finance
(2014)
The National Institute on Money in State Politics collects, processes, and makes public information on campaign contributions made to state-level candidates for public office. Drawing on experiences of a variety of users, ...
France's War in Mali
(2014)
This report discusses the 2013 French Army operations in Mali (Operation Serval) to provide a model for an expeditionary force that has attributes and competencies the United States Army seeks. The French demonstrated that ...
Quantifying the Contribution of Public Parks to Physical Activity and Health
(2014)
This paper introduces the System for Observing Play and Recreation in Communities (SOPARC), a reliable, valid, and easy-to-use tool for quantifying park use and park-based physical activity. The authors explain what SOPARC ...
Addressing Challenges in Evaluating School Principal Improvement Efforts
(2012)
Given the focus on accountability in education, stakeholders are interested in evaluating whether efforts aimed at improving school leadership show results; the key criteria are student outcomes. This report describes ...
The Uses and Limits of Small-Scale Military Interventions
(2012)
The authors assess the utility and limitations of “minimalist stabilization”—small-scale interventions designed to stabilize a partner government engaged in violent conflict—and propose policy recommendations concerning ...
The Muslim Brotherhood, Its Youth, and Implications for U.S. Engagement
(2012)
Since the 2011 revolution in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood has emerged as a key political player. Although individuals under the age of 35 make up a large share of the membership, the group’s strict hierarchy has led to ...
Cataract Blindness and Simulation-Based Training for Cataract Surgeons
(2012)
Cataracts cause about half of all cases of blindness worldwide, largely in developing countries. HelpMeSee Inc. is developing a simulator-based method for rapid cataract surgical training that RAND researchers determined ...
Crisis and Escalation in Cyberspace
(2012)
The chances are growing that the United States will find itself in a crisis in cyberspace—the escalation of tensions associated with a major cyberattack, suspicions that one has taken place, or fears that it might do so ...
Facing the Missile Challenge
(2012)
Report assesses whether the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty continues to serve America's national interests, or whether adherence unduly constrains the U.S. ability to effectively respond to emerging security threats. ...
Medicines as a Service
(2012)
The pharmaceutical industry can reconfigure its considerable resources to develop innovative and meaningful business models that are based on services that improve access and adherence to prescription drugs for common ...
India’s and Pakistan’s Strategies in Afghanistan
(2012)
India and Pakistan have very different visions for Afghanistan, and they seek to advance highly disparate interests through their respective engagements in the country. This paper reviews the countries’ interests in ...
Containing Iran
(2012)
Iran’s nuclear program is one of this century’s principal foreign policy challenges. Despite U.S., Israeli, and allied efforts, Iran has an extensive enrichment program and likely has the technical capacity to produce at ...
Efficient Aviation Security
(2012)
Making aviation security more cost-effective is hampered by considerable uncertainty about the terrorist threat, security system performance, and the costs of security measures. This volume focuses on exploring ways to ...
The Extent of Restrictions on the Service of Active-Component Military Women
(2012)
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 mandated a review of gender-based assignment restrictions. To support this effort, RAND researchers analyzed service data to describe and quantify the military ...
Modernizing the Mobility Air Force for Tomorrow’s Air Traffic Management System
(2012)
Aircraft modernization to comply with mandates affecting airspace ensures continued access to fuel-efficient cruising altitudes and use of the busiest airports, but these future benefits require an upfront investment in ...
Healthcare Coverage and Disability Evaluation for Reserve Component Personnel
(2012)
As part of the 11th Quadrennial Review of Military Compensation, which is investigating the Reserve and National Guard’s compensation and benefits, this report analyzes healthcare coverage for RC members, including ...
Lessons from the Army’s Future Combat Systems Program
(2012)
The U.S. Army’s Future Combat Systems program aimed to field an ambitious system of systems, with novel technologies integrated via an advanced wireless network. The largest and most ambitious planned acquisition program ...
Nurse Practitioners and Sexual and Reproductive Health Services
(2012)
Trends for Sexual and Reproductive Health (SRH) services in the next decade show demand outstripping supply. Policy options addressing an inadequate supply of SRH-trained Nurse Practitioners to meet future demand for SRH ...
Resolving Kirkuk
(2012)
Past efforts to resolve ethno-territorial conflicts in Brčko, Mostar, Northern Ireland, and Jerusalem provide insights that could facilitate a negotiated settlement regarding the disputed Iraqi city of Kirkuk. The case ...
Syria as an Arena of Strategic Competition
(2013)
Less than two years since the beginning of the uprising in Syria, localized protests have morphed into full-blown civil conflict, and external actors have become involved as well. RAND conducted an analytic exercise to ...
SMART TRASH
(2012)
The study aims to assess the environmental impact of the RFID tags themselves as well as the environmental advantages that the use of RFID can provide to product lifecycle management. The Final Report presents the findings ...
Understanding Why a Ground Combat Vehicle That Carries Nine Dismounts Is Important to the Army
(2013)
For over 50 years, the Army has tried to develop and field survivable, lethal infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs). The Ground Combat Vehicle is an attempt to provide the infantry with an IFV that can carry a full infantry ...
Robust Water-Management Strategies for the California Water Plan Update 2013
(2013)
This report describes a proof-of-concept analysis using Robust Decision Making to evaluate water resource management response packages for California’s Central Valley under future uncertainty. This analytic approach will ...
Improving Inventory Management of Organizational and Individual Equipment at Central Issue Facilities
(2013)
Army Central Issue Facilities do not have a formal mechanism signaling when to review inventory levels and when and whether to requisition items. This study provides logistics leaders need a routinized inventory review ...
Exploring the Addition of Physician Identifiers to the California Hospital Discharge Data Set
(2013)
To advance consideration of whether California should collect and release physician-identified data, RAND conducted a study to explore issues associated with requiring the inclusion of physician identifiers in the California ...
Financing the Operation and Maintenance Costs of Hurricane Protection Infrastructure
(2012)
This report analyzes the fiscal capacity of eight local levee districts in southern Louisiana to shoulder the burden of operating and maintaining the Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System and other key hurricane ...
Oral Health in the District of Columbia
(2013)
Research suggests that there are significant barriers to oral health care for many children in Washington, D.C. This report assesses the perspectives of Washington, D.C., stakeholders, including parents and providers, about ...
Financial Sustainability for Nonprofit Organizations
(2012)
Nonprofits face a myriad of challenges in establishing and maintaining financial sustainability, and these challenges are exacerbated for nonprofits serving low-resources, high-need communities. This literature review ...
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and the Earnings of Military Reservists
(2013)
An investigation of the effects of having symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on the labor market earnings of reservists in the years following deployment.
Performance Standards for Restaurants
(2013)
This report presents the results of a conference of 38 national experts in nutrition and public health who met to develop performance standards that could guide restaurants toward facilitating healthier choices among ...
Assessing the Impact of Requiring Justification and Approval Review for Sole Source 8(a) Native American Contracts in Excess of $20 Million
(2012)
Participants in the federal 8(a) Business Development Program can receive low-value procurement contracts without competitive bidding; certain firms can receive contracts of any size. Concern over these firms' advantage ...
An Assessment of the Ability of the U.S. Department of Defense and the Services to Measure and Track Language and Culture Training and Capabilities Among General Purpose Forces
(2012)
This report addresses questions concerning the U.S. Department of Defense’s ability to measure and track the language, regional expertise, and culture (LREC) training and capabilities of general purpose forces. The authors ...
An Assessment of the Civilian Acquisition Workforce Personnel Demonstration Project
(2012)
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Civilian Acquisition Workforce Personnel Demonstration Project (AcqDemo) is an effort to reengineer the civilian personnel system to meet the needs of the acquisition workforce and to ...
Interventions to Improve Student Mental Health
(2012)
The authors review data on the prevalence of youth mental health disorders and schools’ use of student mental health (SMH) programs. They also describe the role of schools in addressing SMH concerns and outline a conceptual ...
Factors Affecting Physician Professional Satisfaction and Their Implications for Patient Care, Health Systems, and Health Policy
(2013)
The American Medical Association asked RAND Health to characterize the factors that affect physician professional satisfaction. RAND researchers sought to identify high-priority determinants of professional satisfaction ...
Rapid Acquisition and Fielding for Information Assurance and Cyber Security in the Navy
(2012)
The U.S. Navy requires an agile and adaptable acquisition process that can field new information technology capabilities and services in relatively short and responsive time frames. A RAND study sought to identify ways to ...
Improving Air Force Depot Programming by Linking Resources to Capabilities
(2012)
Depot purchased equipment maintenance (DPEM) funds the bulk of the work done at Air Force depots that does not involve the repair of spares or work on modification programs. This report analyzes how to better program for ...
Sustaining the U.S. Air Force Nuclear Mission
(2013)
The U.S. Air Force has prioritized the reinvigoration and strengthening of its nuclear enterprise. However, there are inherent challenges to sustaining the capabilities of nuclear systems of systems. Perhaps the most ...
Interventions to Reduce Mental Health Stigma and Discrimination
(2012)
A number of programs aim to reduce the stigma and discrimination associated with mental illness, and they can include a variety of components such as training, education, media campaigns, and contact with people with mental ...
Aptitude for Destruction, Volume 2
(2005)
Better ways are needed to understand how terrorist groups increase their effectiveness and become more dangerous. Learning is the link between what a group wants to do and its ability to actually do it; therefore, a better ...
Aptitude for Destruction, Volume 1
(2005)
Better ways are needed to understand how terrorist groups become more effective and dangerous. Learning is the link between what a group wants to do and its ability to actually do it; therefore, a better understanding of ...
A New Direction for China's Defense Industry
(2005)
Since the early 1980s, a prominent and consistent conclusion drawn from research on China's defense-industrial complex has been that China's defense-production capabilities are rife with weaknesses and limitations. This ...
Chinese Responses to U.S. Military Transformation and Implications for the Department of Defense
(2006)
For the past decade, Chinese military strategists have keenly observed the changes in U.S. national strategy and military transformation. This report examines the constraints, facilitators, and potential options for Chinese ...
Early Childhood Interventions
(2005)
Considers the potential consequences of not investing additional resources in children's lives, the range of early intervention programs, the demonstrated benefits of interventions having high-quality evaluations, the ...
Securing Health
(2006)
RAND researchers analyzed the health components of seven post-World War II nation-building efforts conducted after major conflicts-Germany, Japan, Somalia, Haiti, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq-and found that two factors are ...
The Economics of Investing in Universal Preschool Education in California
(2005)
There is increased interest in California and other states in providing universal access to publicly funded preschool education. In considering such a program, policymakers and the public focus on the potential benefits ...
U.S. Interests in Central Asia
(2005)
The republics of Central Asia became more important to United States when U.S. forces were deployed there in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. The authors examine U.S. interests in the region, identify three main ...
North Korean Paradoxes
(2005)
Analyzes economic, political, and security issues associated with Korean unification. Considers how the North Korean system might unravel, leading to possible unification, and what the capital costs of unification would ...