2012-05-25T11:16:01Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/pubs/online/law-and-business.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1159.html 2012-05-24T08:15:00.000-04:00 2012-05-24T08:15:00.000-04:00

RAND research conducted in the late 1990s documented differences in rates of promotion and retention among male, female, white, and minority officers in the U.S. military. This volume updates the earlier RAND study, using data from January 1988 through September 2010. It also examines the career progression of women serving in military occupations that are partially closed to them.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1175.html 2012-05-21T09:00:00.000-04:00 2012-05-21T09:00:00.000-04:00

The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 mandated a review of gender-based assignment restrictions. To support this effort, RAND researchers analyzed service data to describe and quantify the military occupations that are closed to women, as well as occupations that are open with some positions that are closed.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP372.html 2012-05-17T11:30:00.000-04:00 2012-05-17T11:30:00.000-04:00

The tri-border area (TBA) between the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia is a key hub of terrorist and related criminal activity in Southeast Asia. The authors analyze the security environment in the region, examine the Philippines' Coast Watch System, and consider the prospects for forming an integrated system of maritime security that would tie together the three states that converge in the TBA.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/CT375.html 2012-05-09T13:00:00.000-04:00 2012-05-09T13:00:00.000-04:00

Testimony presented before the California State Senate Labor and Industrial Relations Committee on May 9, 2012.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP369-1.html 2012-05-08T12:45:00.000-04:00 2012-05-08T12:45:00.000-04:00

The fraction of American households that have no bank accounts has long been a concern for policymakers. Estimates from a nationally representative sample, RAND's American Life Panel, suggest that in 2011: 15.5 percent of the population is unbanked; socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals are more likely to be unbanked; unbanked respondents cite financial barriers and personal preference as reasons for not having a bank account.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP357.html 2012-05-07T13:30:00.000-04:00 2012-05-07T13:30:00.000-04:00

The individual talent within any police workforce must be managed in such a way that the skills and knowledge needed to provide effective law enforcement are recognized, appropriately utilized, and fostered. This occasional paper provides an overview of a RAND methodology for creating an effective workforce development system to better align personnel with current and future force requirements.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1153.html 2012-05-07T13:15:00.000-04:00 2012-05-07T13:15:00.000-04:00

Historically, police agencies have measured their performance against a restricted set of crime-focused indicators, but modern police officers must be prepared to take on a wide variety of roles. Performance measures should be multidimensional to capture this complexity. This report describes some key considerations in designing measures to evaluate law enforcement agencies and includes a detailed review of some international best practices.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP351.html 2012-05-02T09:15:00.000-04:00 2012-05-02T09:15:00.000-04:00

The partnership between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the People's Republic of China presents a unique challenge to U.S. interests and objectives, including dissuading Iran from developing a nuclear weapons capability. This paper examines factors driving Chinese-Iranian cooperation, potential tensions in the Chinese-Iranian partnership, and U.S. policy options for influencing this partnership to meet U.S. objectives.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9661.html 2012-04-24T09:00:00.000-04:00 2012-04-24T09:00:00.000-04:00

This research brief provides an overview of a collection of essays, a collaborative project by the UCLA-RAND Center for Law and Public Policy, examining the trade-offs between transparency and confidentiality in the civil justice system.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/commercial_books/CB528.html 2012-04-24T09:00:00.000-04:00 2012-04-24T09:00:00.000-04:00

This collection of essays by leading legal scholars is the first book to approach the issue of confidentiality in the legal system in a multidisciplinary, nonpartisan, and empirical manner. The essays provide empirical analyses and case studies of the impact of greater disclosure on various aspects of the system, ranging from settlement values to fraud, and propose several novel prescriptions for reform.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1216.html 2012-04-23T08:00:00.000-04:00 2012-04-23T08:00:00.000-04:00

Health care reform can potentially affect the volume and cost of medical care received through workers' compensation (WC), but so far there has been little empirical evidence of this effect. This study used Massachusetts's health care reform experience to empirically estimate how reform impacts WC hospital care.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP363.html 2012-04-23T07:45:00.000-04:00 2012-04-23T07:45:00.000-04:00

The authors look at four trade policy options for Japan and the United States. They evaluate each option for each country based on its impact on international relations and economic growth and its political and practical feasibility and conclude that the best option for both nations is to move forward cooperatively with the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9653.html 2012-04-13T09:15:00.000-04:00 2012-04-13T09:15:00.000-04:00

This report describes the socioeconomic environment officers will encounter if they leave active-duty service and analyzes its potential impact on Army retention and how it can be effectively communicated to officers making stay/leave decisions.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG985-1.html 2012-04-11T13:15:00.000-04:00 2012-04-11T13:15:00.000-04:00

This binational reference for U.S. and Mexican policymakers presents the interrelated issues of Mexican immigration to the United States and Mexico's economic and social development. Differences in economic growth, wages, and the employment situation between two countries are critical determinants of immigration, and migration of labor out of Mexico, in addition to economic and social policies, affects Mexico's development.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9650.html 2012-04-11T12:00:00.000-04:00 2012-04-11T12:00:00.000-04:00

According to a RAND study, document review makes up 73 percent of discovery costs. Predictive coding is the most promising option for cutting costs without compromising the quality of the process.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG1208.html 2012-04-11T12:00:00.000-04:00 2012-04-11T12:00:00.000-04:00

This monograph provides a richly detailed account of the resources required by a diverse set of very large companies operating in different industries to comply with what they described as typical electronic-discovery requests and suggests ways to reduce those costs, as well as address concerns about duties to preserve data in anticipation of litigation.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9644.html 2012-04-11T08:15:00.000-04:00 2012-04-11T08:15:00.000-04:00

Estimates the effects of the 2007 expansion of the Work Opportunity Tax Credit program, which offered tax credits to employers who hired certain groups of veterans, including those with service-connected disabilities.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP366.html 2012-04-11T08:15:00.000-04:00 2012-04-11T08:15:00.000-04:00

In 2007, Congress expanded the Work Opportunity Tax Credit program to incentivize employers to hire disabled veterans. In this paper, the author uses nationally representative data from the American Community Survey and a multiple-differences research design to estimate the employment effects of the program.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/WR873-2.html 2012-04-02T11:45:00.000-04:00 2012-04-02T11:45:00.000-04:00

Uses a large-scale field experiment to measure the effect of interventions designed to inform subjects about the mapping between current contributions and income in retirement on saving behavior.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120095.html 2012-04-01T12:00:00.000-04:00 2012-04-01T12:00:00.000-04:00

This paper explores the potential of the art market for open-source intelligence assessments of cultural security.