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Research Briefs

RAND research briefs present policy-oriented summaries of individual published, peer-reviewed documents or of a body of published work.

2008

Achievement and Attainment in Chicago Charter Schools: A Summary

Kevin Booker, Brian Gill, Ron Zimmer, Tim R. Sass

Aircraft Carrier Maintenance Cycles and Their Effects

Roland J. Yardley, James G. Kallimani, John F. Schank, Clifford A. Grammich

Assessing Child Care Quality: How Well Does Colorado's Qualistar Quality Rating Improvement System Work?

Gail L. Zellman, Michal Perlman, Vi-Nhuan Le, Claude Messan Setodji

Assessing the New York City Police Department Firearm Training and Firearm-Discharge Review Process

Bernard D. Rostker, Lawrence M. Hanser, William M. Hix, Carl Jensen, Andrew R. Morral, Greg Ridgeway, Terry L. Schell

Conducting Counterinsurgency Operations: Lessons from Iraq (2003-2006)

Bruce R. Pirnie, Edward O'Connell

Constrained Choice: Why Are Some Women and Men Able To Create and Maintain Healthy Lifestyles, While Others Are Not?

Chloe E. Bird, Patricia P. Rieker

Countering Insurgency in the Muslim World: Rethinking U.S. Priorities and Capabilities

David C. Gompert, John Gordon, IV, Adam Grissom, David R. Frelinger, Seth G. Jones, Martin C. Libicki, Edward O'Connell, Brooke K. Stearns, Robert E. Hunter

Delivery of Genomic Medicine for Common Chronic Adult Diseases

Maren T. Scheuner, Pauline Sieverding, Paul G. Shekelle

Digital preservation: The uncertain future of saving the past

Stijn Hoorens, Jeff Rothenberg

Do NYPD's Pedestrian Stop Data Indicate Racial Bias?

Greg Ridgeway

Evaluating Alternatives for Renewing TRIA in an Uncertain World

Lloyd Dixon, Robert J. Lempert, Tom LaTourrette, Robert T. Reville

Evaluating the BK 21 Program

Somi Seong, Steven W. Popper, Charles A. Goldman, David K. Evans, Clifford A. Grammich

Evaluating the Spirituality for Kids After-School Program

Nicole Maestas, Sarah Gaillot

Extending the Reach of Arts Education

Susan J. Bodilly, Catherine H. Augustine, Laura Zakaras

Getting the Most Out of Littoral Combat Ships

Brien Alkire, John Birkler, Lisa Dolan, James Dryden, Bryce Mason, Gordon T. Lee, John F. Schank, Michael Hayes

How to leave an Olympic Legacy: Using the past and the present to deliver the future

Lindsay Clutterbuck, Edward Nason, Lynne Saylor, Ruth Levitt, Michael Hallsworth, Lisa Klautzer, Lila Rabinovich, Samir Puri, Greg Hannah, Aruna Sivakumar, Flavia Tsang, Peter Burge, Cameron Munro

Identifying Priorities for Post-Secondary Education in Qatar (Arabic version)

Cathleen Stasz, Eric R. Eide, Francisco Martorell, Louay Constant, Charles A. Goldman, Joy S. Moini, Vazha Nadareishvili, Hanine Salem

Identifying and Reducing Climate-Change Vulnerabilities in Water-Management Plans

David G. Groves, Debra Knopman, Robert J. Lempert, Sandra H. Berry, Lynne Wainfan

Immigrants and Health Care: A Complex Picture

Kathryn Pitkin Derose, Jose J. Escarce, Nicole Lurie

Improving Strategic Planning at the Department of Defense

Paul K. Davis, Russell D. Shaver, Justin Beck

Improving U.S. Counterinsurgency Operations: Lessons Learned from Afghanistan

Seth G. Jones

Improving the Quality of Health Care for Older Adults

Joshua Chodosh, David Solomon, Carol P. Roth, John T. Chang, Catherine MacLean, Bruce Ferrell, Paul G. Shekelle, Neil S. Wenger, David A. Ganz, Caren Kamberg, Takahiro Higashi, Lillian Min, David Reuben, Roy Young, Debra Saliba, John Schnelle, Eric L. Knight, Jerry Avorn, Laurence Rubenstein, N. Gnanadesigan, John L. Adams, Rick L. Smith, Constance Fung, Martin O. Roland, Elizabeth A. McGlynn, David Reeves, Steven M. Asch, Eve A. Kerr, Richard K. Besdine, Alpesh Amin, Dan G. Blazer, Terry Fulmer, Mark Grunwald, William J. Hall, Paul R. Katz, Dalane W. Kitzman, Rosanne M. Leipzig, D. S. Zingmond, K. H. Wilber, Patricia A. Ganz, Harvey Cohen, Ronnie A. Rosenthal

Insurance Companies' Fears of Covering Acupuncture Appear Unfounded

Machaon Bonafede, Andrew Dick, Katia Noyes, Jonathan D. Klein, Theodore Brown

Investment Advisers and Broker-Dealers

Angela A. Hung, Noreen Clancy, Jeff Dominitz, Eric Talley, Claude Berrebi, Farrukh Suvankulov

Invisible Wounds: Mental Health and Cognitive Care Needs of America's Returning Veterans

Terri Tanielian, Lisa H. Jaycox, Terry L. Schell, Grant N. Marshall, M. Audrey Burnam, Christine Eibner, Benjamin R. Karney, Lisa S. Meredith, Jeanne S. Ringel, Mary E. Vaiana

Is the Economic Burden of Providing Health Insurance Greater for Small Firms Than for Large Firms?

Christine Eibner

Is the Navy Developing Flag Officers with the Expertise They Need?

Lawrence M. Hanser, Louis W. Miller, Herbert J. Shukiar, Bruce Newsome

Is the United States Losing Its Edge in Science and Technology?

Titus Galama, James Hosek

Life Expectancy Is Better Than Age as a General Predictor of Health Care Expenditures

Baoping Shang, Dana P. Goldman

Modeling the Health and Medical Care Spending of the Future Elderly

Dana P. Goldman, David M. Cutler, Paul G. Shekelle, Jay Bhattacharya, Baoping Shang, Geoffrey F. Joyce, Michael Hurd, Dawn Matsui, Sydne Newberry, Constantijn (Stan) Panis, Michael W. Rich, Catherine K. Su, Emmett B. Keeler, Darius N. Lakdawalla, Matthew E. Chernew, Feng Pan, Eduardo Ortiz, Robert H. Brook, A. M. Garber, Shannon Rhodes

New Approaches to Planning, Executing, and Assessing Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Operations

Sherrill Lingel, Carl Rhodes, Amado Cordova, Jeff Hagen, Joel Kvitky, Lance Menthe

Organizing for Quality: Inside the ''Black Box'' of Health Care Improvement in Europe and the United States

Paul Bate, Peter Mendel, Glenn Robert

Pathways to Obesity: Are People "Hardwired" to Overeat?

Deborah Cohen

Piracy and Terrorism at Sea: A Rising Challenge for U.S. Security

Peter Chalk

Redesigning Qatar's Post-Secondary Scholarship System

Catherine H. Augustine, Cathy Krop

Redesigning Qatar's Post-Secondary Scholarship System (Arabic version)

Catherine H. Augustine, Cathy Krop

Remuneration and its motivation of UK military personnel

Hans Pung, Samir Puri, Tom Ling, Michael Hallsworth, Laurence Smallman

Road Home Program Leaves Many Homeowners Waiting

Rick Eden, Patricia Boren

Room for Improvement in the Use of High-Quality Preschool Programs for California's Children

Lynn A. Karoly, Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, Gail L. Zellman, Michal Perlman, Lynda Fernyhough

Teens Who Work Are More Likely to Smoke

Rajeev Ramchand, Nicholas S. Ialongo, Howard D. Chilcoat

Test and Evaluation Facilities and Capabilities: Is the Air Force Overinvested?

Michael R. Thirtle, Michael Boito, Ian P. Cook, Bernard Fox, Phyllis Gilmore, Michelle Grace, Jeff Hagen, Thomas Hamilton, Lawrence M. Hanser, Herbert J. Shukiar, Jerry M. Sollinger, David Vaughan

Title I School Choice and Supplemental Educational Services Under No Child Left Behind: Progress Toward Implementation

Brian Gill, Jennifer Sloan McCombs, Scott Naftel, Karen E. Ross, Mengli Song, Jennifer Harmon, Georges Vernez, Beatrice Birman, Michael Garet, Jennifer O'Day

Validating the Link Between Good Physician Process of Care and Better Health-Related Quality of Life for Patients

Katherine L. Kahn, Diana M. Tisnado, John L. Adams, Honghu H. Liu, Wen-Pin Chen, Fang Ashlee Hu, Carol Mangione, Ron D. Hays, Cheryl L. Damberg

What Can DoD Leaders Do to Improve Diversity? : Outline of a Strategic Plan

Nelson Lim, Michelle Cho, Kimberly Curry

What Does Economics Tell Us About Early Childhood Policy?

M. Rebecca Kilburn, Lynn A. Karoly

Why People Overeat: Rethinking the Causes of Obesity

Deborah Cohen, Thomas Farley

Workers' Compensation in Pennsylvania: How is the System Performing? How Should It Be Reformed?

Michael D. Greenberg, Amelia M. Haviland

2007

Accountability Under No Child Left Behind: Progress Toward Implementation

Kerstin Carlson Le Floch, Jose Felipe Martinez, Jennifer O'Day, Brian M. Stecher, James Taylor, Andrea Cook, Georges Vernez, Beatrice Birman, Michael Garet

America's Security Challenges Require a New Division of Labor Among the Armed Forces

Andrew R. Hoehn, Adam Grissom, David Ochmanek, David A. Shlapak, Alan J. Vick

Anatomy of an Insurance Class Action

Nicholas M. Pace, Stephen J. Carroll, Ingo Vogelsang, Laura Zakaras

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