Jonathan P. Caulkins

Academic Consultant

Off Site Office

Education

Ph.D. in operations research, MIT; M.S. in electrical engineering and computer science, MIT; M.S. in mathematics and systems science, Washington University; B.S. in computer science, engineering, and systems science, Washington University

Jonathan P. Caulkins

Education

Commentary

Important Facts About Marijuana Legalization — Jul 12, 2012

Publications

High Tax States: Options for Gleaning Revenue from Legal Cannabis - 2013

Design Considerations for Legalizing Cannabis: Lessons Inspired by Analysis of California's Proposition 19 - 2012

Epidemiological Model for Examining Marijuana Use Over the Life Course - 2012

Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know - 2012

The U.S. Drug Policy Landscape: Insights and Opportunities for Improving the View - 2012

Addiction Research Centres and the Nurturing of Creativity: RAND's Drug Policy Research Center - 2011

Basing Drug Scheduling Decisions on Scientific Ranking of Harmfulness: False Promise from False Premises - 2011

Bringing Perspective to Illicit Markets: Estimating the Size of the U.S. Marijuana Market - 2011

Budgeting for Immigration Enforcement: A Path to Better Performance - 2011

Altered State? Assessing How Marijuana Legalization in California Could Influence Marijuana Consumption and Public Budgets - 2010

Cost of Marijuana Prohibition on the California Criminal Justice System - 2010

Estimated Cost of Production for Legalized Cannabis - 2010

How Might Marijuana Legalization in California Affect Drug Trafficking Revenues and Violence in Mexico? - 2010

How Might Marijuana Legalization in California Affect Public Budgets and Marijuana Consumption? - 2010

Potential for Legal Marijuana Sales in California to Supply Rest of U.S. - 2010

RAND Review: Vol. 34, No. 2, Summer 2010 - 2010

Reducing Drug Trafficking Revenues and Violence in Mexico: Would Legalizing Marijuana in California Help? - 2010

Smuggling and Excise Tax Evasion for Legalized Marijuana: Lessons from Other Excise Taxes - 2010

What Economics Can Contribute to the Addiction Sciences - 2010

Marijuana Markets: Inferences from Reports By the Household Population - 2006

Assessing U.S. Drug Problems and Policy: A Synthesis of the Evidence to Date - 2005

How Goes the “War on Drugs”? An Assessment of U.S. Drug Problems and Policy - 2005

Models Pertaining to How Drug Policy Should Vary Over the Course of a Drug Epidemic - 2005

What We Can--And Cannot--Expect from School-Based Drug Prevention - 2004

Crash Courses: Hard Lessons from Educational Interventions - 2003

Drug Use and Drug Policy Futures: Insights from a Colloquium - 2003

International Drug Prices: Evidence from STRIDE - 2003

RAND Review: Vol. 27, No. 1, Spring 2003 - 2003

A "Noble Bet" in Early Care and Education: Lessons from One Community's Experience - 2002

A "Noble Bet" in Early Care and Education: Lessons from One Community's Experience: Executive Summary - 2002

Intelligent Giving: Insights and Strategies for Higher Education Donors - 2002

Law Enforcement's Role in a Harm Reduction Regime - 2002

School-Based Drug Prevention: What Kind of Drug Use Does It Prevent? - 2002

What Are the True Benefits of School-Based Drug Prevention Programs? - 2002

Analyzing the Costs and Benefits of Early Childhood Interventions - 2001

Assessing Costs and Benefits of Early Childhood Intervention Programs: Overview and Applications to the Starting Early, Starting Smart Program - 2001

Assessing Costs and Benefits of Early Childhood Intervention Programs: Overview and Applications to the Starting Early, Starting Smart Program: Executive Summary - 2001

Drug Prices and Emergency Department Mentions for Cocaine and Heroin - 2001

The Evolution of Drug Initiation: From Social Networks to Public Markets - 2001

A Dynamic Model of Drug Initiation: Implications for Treatment and Drug Control - 2000

Do Drug Prohibition and Enforcement Work? - 2000

Measurement and Analysis of Drug Problems and Drug Control Efforts - 2000

Optimal Control of Drug Epidemics: Prevent and Treat--But Not at the Same Time? - 2000

Response to NRC Assessment of RAND's Controlling Cocaine Study - 2000

Response to the National Research Council's Assessment of RAND's "Controlling Cocaine" Study - 2000

Should the U.S. Direct More Law Enforcement Effort at XTC? - 2000

The Global Course of the Information Revolution: Technological Trends: Proceedings of an International Conference - 2000

An Ounce of Prevention, a Pound of Uncertainty: The Cost-Effectiveness of School-Based Drug Prevention Programs - 1999

The Benefits and Costs of Drug Use Prevention: Clarifying a Cloudy Issue - 1999

Are mandatory minimum drug sentences cost-effective? - 1998

Can difficult-to-reuse syringes reduce the spread of HIV among injection drug users? - 1998

Is crack cheaper than (powder) cocaine? - 1998

Modeling the domestic distribution network for illicit drugs - 1998

Are Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentences Cost-Effective? - 1997

Enforcement or treatment? : modeling the relative efficacy of alternatives for controlling cocaine - 1997

Examining the Behavioral Assumptions of the National Drug Control Strategy - 1997

Mandatory Minimum Drug Sentences: Throwing Away the Key or the Taxpayers' Money? - 1997

Setting Goals for Drug Policy: Harm Reduction or Use Reduction? - 1997

The Meaning and Utility of Drug Prices - 1997

What does mathematical modeling tell us about harm reduction? - 1997

Cocaine consumption in the United States : estimating past trends and future scenarios - 1996

Describing DAWN's dominion - 1996

Can the Military Help Prevent Drug Use Among Youth? - 1995

Dealing with the country's drug problem - 1995

Domestic Geographic Variation in Illicit Drug Prices - 1995

Evaluating the effectiveness of interdiction and source country control - 1995

Redefining the goals of national drug policy : recommendations from a working group - 1995

To How Many Customers Should a Drug Dealer Sell? - 1995

Developing Price Series for Cocaine - 1994

Examining the Behaviorial Assumptions of the National Drug Control Strategy - 1994

Improving Data and Analysis to Support National Drug Abuse Policy — Main Report - 1994

Preventing Drug Use Among Youth Through Community Outreach: The Military's Pilot Programs - 1994

Three Strikes and You’re Out: Estimated Benefits and Costs of California’s New Mandatory-Sentencing Law - 1994

What is the Average Price of an Illicit Drug? - 1994

Improving Data and Analysis to Support National Substance Abuse Policy - 1993