RAND: Susan S. Everingham 2013-05-28T15:11:42Z Copyright (c) 2013, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/about/people/e/everingham_susan_s.html The Upside of Snowmageddon http://www.rand.org/commentary/2010/03/28/PPG.html 2010-03-28T13:55:00Z 2010-03-28T13:55:00Z The city's lame response shows, yet again, why we need more cooperation among local governments. Getting to Know Pittsburgh: The City Has Embraced Me ... and Now the World? http://www.rand.org/commentary/2009/09/19/PPG.html 2009-09-19T19:53:00Z 2009-09-19T19:53:00Z In the year since I moved to Pittsburgh from Southern California, it's become clear that I unwittingly chose the perfect moment in history to come here, writes Susan Everingham. Public Libraries Are Needed Now More Than Ever http://www.rand.org/commentary/2009/05/29/PBT.html 2009-05-29T13:43:00Z 2009-05-29T13:43:00Z What Pittsburgh attraction provides $3 of economic output for every public dollar invested? The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. If you find this factoid unlikely, it is because the research that discovered it received an astounding lack of attention, write Susan Everingham and Sally Sleeper. Response to NRC Assessment of RAND's Controlling Cocaine Study http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1265z0.html 2000-01-01T12:05:15Z 2000-01-01T12:05:15Z Response to NRC Assessment of RAND's Controlling Cocaine Study Response to the National Research Council's Assessment of RAND's "Controlling Cocaine" Study http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1265.html 2000-01-01T12:01:48Z 2000-01-01T12:01:48Z In 1999, a scientific committee assembled under the auspices of the National Research Council issued a critique of RAND's 1994 Controlling Cocaine report. Investigating the Costs of the Death Penalty in California: Insights for Future Data Collection from a Preliminary RAND Effort http://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/CT300.html 2008-02-20T21:00:00Z 2008-02-20T21:00:00Z Testimony presented before the California Commission on the Fair Administration of Justice on February 20, 2008. Controlling Cocaine: Supply Versus Demand Programs http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR331.html 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This report analyzes the relative cost-effectiveness of various available drug interventions. Modeling the Demand for Cocaine http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR332.html 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This report documents the development of a two-state Markovian model of the demand for cocaine and includes the estimation of incidence, prevalence, cohort retention, and consumption. Investing in Our Children: What We Know and Don't Know About the Costs and Benefits of Early Childhood Interventions http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR898.html 1998-01-01T12:01:00Z 1998-01-01T12:01:00Z This study synthesizes the results of a number of previous evaluations in an effort to gauge the potentially costly programs that intervene early in the lives of disadvantaged children. An Ounce of Prevention, a Pound of Uncertainty: The Cost-Effectiveness of School-Based Drug Prevention Programs http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR923.html 1999-01-01T12:01:42Z 1999-01-01T12:01:42Z Focuses on school-based drug prevention programs that have proven effective in formal evaluations. Enforcement or treatment? : modeling the relative efficacy of alternatives for controlling cocaine http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP614.html 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Enforcement or treatment? : modeling the relative efficacy of alternatives for controlling cocaine Cocaine consumption in the United States : estimating past trends and future scenarios http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/RP545.html 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Cocaine consumption in the United States : estimating past trends and future scenarios The Benefits and Costs of Drug Use Prevention: Clarifying a Cloudy Issue http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB6007.html 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z The United States has for some time now been spending tens of billions of dollars a year in an attempt to control the trafficking and use of illicit drugs; most of those dollars have been used to support stricter enforcement. Projecting Future Cocaine Use and Evaluating Control Strategies http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB6002.html 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Concluded that treatment is seven times as cost-effective (at the margin) as domestic enforcement -- the best alternative to treatment that the study evaluated. Early Childhood Interventions: Benefits, Costs, and Savings http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB5014.html 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z This research brief describes work documented in <em>Investing in Our Children: What We Know and Don't Know About the Costs and Benefits of Early Childhood Interventions</em> (MR-898-TCWF). Comparing the Cost-Effectiveness of Federal Mandatory Minimum Sentences and Other Federal Enforcement Programs http://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/CT162.html 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z Testimony presented to the Subcommittee on Crime of the House Committee on the Judiciary on July 29, 1999.