Focus on California

RAND Reports, Books, and Briefings

Welfare Reform in California: State and County Implementation of CalWORKs in the First Year, Executive Summary (PDF)

Welfare Reform in California: Results of the 1998 All-County Implementation Survey (PDF)

• How Competitive Are California's Local Phone Markets? (PDF).

• RAND Statewide CalWORKs Evaluation: An Overview (PDF)

• Compensating Permanent Workplace Injuries: A Study of the California System

• Diverting Children from a Life of Crime: Measuring Costs and Benefits (PDF)

• The Impact of Water Supply Reductions on San Joaquin Valley Agriculture During the 1986-1992 Drought (PDF)

• The Class of 2014: Preserving Access to California Higher Education (PDF)

• Meeting the Challenge of Charter Reform (PDF)

• Findings from an Evaluation of the Parent Institute for Quality Education Parent Involvement Program (PDF)

• A Risk-Adjusted Model for Mortality Following Surgery for Hip Fracture

• Tracking K-12 Education Spending in California: An Updated Analysis

• Immigration in a Changing Economy: California's Experience-- Questions and Answers (PDF)

• Immigration in a Changing Economy: California's Experience

• The Coming Wave of Violence in California (PDF)

• Findings and Recommendations on California's Permanent Partial Disability System: Executive Summary (HTML)

• Punitive Damages in Financial Injury Jury Verdicts: Executive Summary (HTML)

• Punitive Damages in Financial Injury Jury Verdicts

• Issue Brief on Financial Aid and Tuition Policy in California

• Patterns in Federal R&D Support to California Higher Education Institutions, 1973-1994

• Trends in California Higher Education

• Understanding Productivity in Higher Education

• Defense Cutbacks--Effects on California's Communities, Firms, and Workers: Executive Summary (HTML)

• The New Fiscal Federalism and the Social Safety Net: A View from California (HTML)

• Drought Management Policies and Economic Effects in Urban Areas of California, 1987-1992

• Sustaining Innovation in South Gate: A Framework for Restructuring City Government

• California's Ozone Reduction Strategy for Light-Duty Vehicles: Direct Costs, Direct Emission Effects and Market Responses

• California's Ozone Reduction Strategy for Light-Duty Vehicles: An Economic Assessment

• The Mixed Economic Progress of Immigrants

• Trends and Factors Influencing Telecommuting in Southern California

• The Finances of Education Governance Reforms in California: Evidence From School District Spending Patterns

• Wage Losses of Displaced Workers in the 1990s

• The Fiscal and Demographic Environment of the California State University at Northridge

• Economic Perspectives on Revising California's Zero-Emission Vehicle Mandate

• The Effects of Military Base Closures on Local Communities: A Short-Term Perspective

• Making ZEV Policy Despite Uncertainty: An Annotated Briefing for the California Air Resources Board

• Life After Cutbacks: Tracking California's Aerospace Workers

• California's Shrinking Defense Contractors: Effects on Small Suppliers

• Groundwater Recharge with Reclaimed Water: An Epidemiologic Assessment in Los Angeles County, 1987-1991

• The Future of Public Undergraduate Education in California

• California Base Closure: Lessons for DoD's Cleanup Program

• Projecting California's Fiscal Future

• Tracking K-12 Education Spending in California

• Implementation Evaluation of the Los Angeles Target Cities Project --October 1, 1990-September 31, 1993

• Prenatal and Obstetric Care in Los Angeles County, 1990-1992

• Building a Data & Analysis Infrastructure to Support Substance Abuse Policy Decisionmaking: A Strategic Plan

• Trends in Punitive Damages: Preliminary Data from California

• Diagnostic Assessment and Treatment Service Utilization Among Alzheimer's Disease Clients in California

• California Lawyers View the Future: A Report to the Commission on the Future of the Legal Profession and the State Bar

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

• Escaping the Courthouse: Private Alternative Dispute Resolution in Los Angeles

• Incremental Costs and Efficient Prices with Lumpy Capacity: The Two Product Case

• The Effects of the California Voucher Initiative on Public Expenditures for Education

• The Impact of Water Supply Reductions on San Joaquin Valley Agriculture

• Restructuring Smog Check: A Policy Synthesis

• A Profile of Women Immigrants in California

• Prevalence of Alcohol and Drug Use in California's Household Population, 1988-1991: Analysis of the California Subsample from the National Household Survey on Drug Abuse (/1)