2013-05-29T07:39:29Z Copyright (c) 2013, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/about/people/j/jacobson_mireille.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20110008.html 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Clinic violence reduces abortion services in targeted areas; however, once travel is taken into account, the overall effect of the violence is much smaller.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR987.html 2011-09-21T00:01:00Z 2011-09-21T00:01:00Z

Provides an overview of state medical marijuana laws and preliminary findings on the relationship between medical marijuana dispensaries and local crime, based on results from an ongoing analysis of dispensary closures in Los Angeles.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20100085.html 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act reduced payment for certain chemotherapy drugs. The changes increased the likelihood that lung cancer patients received chemotherapy, but physicians switched to other high margin drugs.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP51320.html 2010-01-01T12:00:00Z 2010-01-01T12:00:00Z

The safety net provided by the African extended family has traditionally been the basis for the assertion that there is no such thing as an orphan in Africa.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP51319.html 2012-01-01T12:00:00Z 2012-01-01T12:00:00Z

We use a regression discontinuity design to analyze an understudied aspect of school accountability systems—how schools use financial rewards.

http://www.rand.org/commentary/2012/05/29/HA.html 2012-05-29T15:28:00Z 2012-05-29T15:28:00Z

The focus on the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) as a primary cause of prescription drug shortages is premature and may deflect attention away from identifying other potentially more important causes, write Mireille Jacobson, Abby Alpert, and Fabian Duarte.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100240.html 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although there has been considerable discussion of how the changes that the ACA makes in Medicare reimbursement might affect Medicare spending, on average, there has been little to no explicit recognition that the effects may vary geographically.