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RAND Labor and Population has built a national and international reputation for conducting high-quality, empirical research to support and improve policies and organizations around the world.
Our work has focused on labor markets, social welfare policy, demographic behavior, aging issues, retirement, and international development with the common aim toward understanding why people make the decisions they do and how markets, society, and policy affect them.
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Findings and News
The 15th Annual RAND Summer Institute — Mar. 26, 2009
The RAND Summer Institute consists of conferences addressing critical issues facing our aging population. Select sessions from the 15th Annual RAND Summer Institute, held July 7-10, 2008 in Santa Monica, California, are available for online viewing.
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Benefit-Cost Analysis Rarely Captures the Full Economic Value of Social Programs — Nov. 12, 2008
This study assesses the state of the art in determining the economic value of social programs for use in benefit-cost analysis (BCA). It finds that rarely are the benefits of social programs consistently or accurately monetized and suggests ways to advance the use of BCA in evaluating social programs' economic returns.
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Behavioral Finance Forum to be Hosted by RAND — Sep. 18, 2008
The Behavioral Finance Forum, an organization dedicated to helping consumers make better financial decisions, will become an initiative of RAND Labor and Population, which includes the recently created RAND Center for Financial Decisionmaking.
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Featured Projects
Center for Financial and Economic Decision Making Studies Human Behavior — Feb. 20, 2009
Ongoing research at the Center for Financial and Economic Decision Making (CFED) addresses the process of financial decision making over the life-cycle, in particular assessing how people collect information; how they think about risks, and probabilities; and how well they match their decisions to their preferences and interests.
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Diversity Management Project Will Collect Data to Better Assess Workforce Policy — Oct. 13, 2008
A new RAND Labor and Population Project will examine how best to achieve and harness workplace diversity, a growing priority for U.S. companies and government agencies who want their workforces to reflect the evolving racial, ethnic, socio-economic, and generational makeup of American society and meet the challenges of the global market place.
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Workforce and Workplace Research Area
Featured Research
The Design of a Multilevel Survey of Children, Families, and Communities:
The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey - 2006
Narayan Sastry, Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, John Adams, Anne R. Pebley
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The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey: Household Questionnaires - 2004
Anne R. Pebley, Narayan Sastry
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Neighborhood and Family Effects on Children's Health in Los Angeles - 2003
Narayan Sastry, Anne R. Pebley
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Concentrated Poverty vs. Concentrated Affluence: Effects on Neighborhood
Social Environments and Children's Outcomes - 2003
Anne R. Pebley, Narayan Sastry
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The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey: Codebook - 2003
Christine E. Peterson, Narayan Sastry, Anne R. Pebley, Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, Stephanie Williamson, and Sandraluz Lara-Cinisomo
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Designing Multidisciplinary Biobehavioral Research on Prematurity and
LBW: Methodological Considerations - 2003
Brian Karl Finch
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Los Angeles County Young Children's Literacy Experiences, Emotional
Well-Being and Skills Acquisition: Results from the Los Angeles Family
and Neighborhood Survey - 2003
Sandra Lara-Cinisomo, Anne R. Pebley
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