2012-05-10T18:07:37Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/about/people/m/mihaly_kata.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR678.html 2009-04-02T16:21:00Z 2009-04-02T16:21:00Z

Examines the theory that social interactions crowd out activities that improve academic performance.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR712.html 2009-12-07T15:08:00Z 2009-12-07T15:08:00Z

Examines if employees are well-equipped to make decisions regarding how much to contribute to their employer-provided pension plans, how to allocate their retirement accounts, and how they will decumulate their retirement funds during retirement.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20091016.html 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

This paper uses CPS data to examine changes in single women's labor supply elasticities in recent decades. Specifically, the authors investigate trends in how single women's hours of work and labor force participation rates responded to both wages and income over the years 1979-2003. Results from the base specification suggest that over the observation period, hours wage elasticities decreased by 82%, participation wage elasticities by 36%, and participation income elasticities by 57%. These results imply that changes in tax policy had a much larger effect on the labor supply and labor force participation behavior of women in this subpopulation in the early 1980s than in recent years.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR857.html 2010-05-17T11:03:00Z 2010-05-17T11:03:00Z

Inventories an array of federal financial and economic literacy programs, highlighting program similarities and differences and categorizing them by purpose, content, delivery method, target audience, and evaluation method.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20090011.html 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

This article studies the year-to-year variability in value-added measures for elementary and middle school mathematics teachers from five large Florida school districts.