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Government Consolidation and Economic Development in Allegheny County and the City of Pittsburgh

Rae W. Archibald, Sally Sleeper

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

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

Moving Los Angeles: Short-Term Policy Options for Improving Transportation

Paul Sorensen, Martin Wachs, Endy Y. Min, Aaron Kofner, Liisa Ecola, Mark Hanson, Allison Yoh, Thomas Light, James Griffin

Monograph

Post-Katrina Recovery of the Housing Market Along the Mississippi Gulf Coast

Kevin F. McCarthy, Mark Hanson

Prepared to Learn: The Nature and Quality of Early Care and Education for Preschool-Age Children in California

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

RAND Review: Vol. 32, No. 1, Spring 2008

Michael Hallsworth, Evi Hatziandreu, David G. Groves, William H. Overholt, Diana Epstein, John D. Graham, James A. Thomson, John Godges, Paul Steinberg, Sydne Newberry, Gordon T. Lee

Corporate Publication

RAND Review: Vol. 32, No. 2, Summer 2008

Terri Tanielian, Lisa H. Jaycox, Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin, Susann Rohwedder, Michael D. Greenberg, Robert T. Reville, Martin Wachs, Ian P. Cook, Bruce Held, James T. Quinlivan, Jeremy Ghez, Theodore W. Karasik, Brian Nichiporuk, Jerrold D. Green, William Rosenau, Peter Chalk, Angel Rabasa, Melinda Moore, Jonathan Grant, Stijn Hoorens, Aruna Sivakumar, David Ronfeldt, Danielle M. Varda, James A. Thomson, John Godges, Paul Steinberg, Gordon T. Lee, David M. Adamson, S. R. Bohandy, James Chiesa, Michael Neumann, Jerry M. Sollinger

Corporate Publication

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

Sanctions in the CalWORKs Program

Jacob Alex Klerman, Jane McClure Burstain

2007

Acculturation and End-of-Life Decision Making: Comparison of Japanese and Japanese-American Focus Groups

Seiji Bito, Shinji Matsumura, Marjorie Kagawa Singer, Lisa S. Meredith, Shunichi Fukuhara, Neil S. Wenger

Adolescent Romantic Relationships as Precursors of Healthy Adult Marriages: A Review of Theory, Research, and Programs

Benjamin R. Karney, Megan K. Beckett, Rebecca L. Collins, Rebecca Shaw

Agrarian Households in Semi-Arid Tropics: Evaluating Policy Options

Arnab Mukherji

Dissertation

American and Iranian Public Opinion: The Quest for Common Grounds

Clifford A. Grammich, C. Christine Fair

Assessing Progress in Rebuilding the Housing Market in Mississippi in the Wake of Katrina

Kevin F. McCarthy, Mark Hanson

Correlated Physical and Mental Summary Scores for the SF-36 and SF-12 Health Survey, V.1

Sepideh S. Farivar, William Cunningham, Ron D. Hays

Developing a Safety Net for Ukraine

Oleksandr Rohozynsky

Dissertation

Discrete choice modelling: Methods for understanding why people make the choices that they do

Effects of Interpregnancy Interval and Outcome of the Preceding Pregnancy on Pregnancy Outcomes in Matlab, Bangladesh

Julie DaVanzo, Lauren Hale, Abdur Razzaque, Mizanur Rahman

Estimating the Accident Risk of Older Drivers

David S. Loughran, Seth A. Seabury

Evaluating the Uptake of the Healthy Life Years Indicator: Final report

Wija J. Oortwijn, Judith Mathijssen, Maureen Lankhuizen, Jonathan Cave

Forces Shaping the Future U.S. Workforce and Workplace: Implications for 21st Century Work

Lynn A. Karoly

Testimony

How Neighborhoods Can Reduce the Risk of Obesity

Deborah Cohen, Amber Sehgal, Stephanie Williamson, Roland Sturm, Thomas L. McKenzie, Rosa Lara, Nicole Lurie, Rob Boer, Yuhui Zheng, Adrian Overton, Greg Ridgeway, Brian Karl Finch, Aimee Bower, Narayan Sastry, J. Scott Ashwood, Molly M. Scott, Kelly R. Evenson, Lisa K. Staten, Dwayne Porter, Diane Catellier, Daniela Golinelli, John Elder

A Look inside the "Doughnut Hole": How Drug-Benefit Limits Affect Retiree Prescription Use

Geoffrey F. Joyce, Dana P. Goldman, Pinar Karaca-Mandic, Yuhui Zheng

Multimorbidity is Associated With Better Quality of Care Among Vulnerable Elders

Lillian Min, Neil S. Wenger, Constance Fung, John T. Chang, David A. Ganz, Takahiro Higashi, Caren Kamberg, Catherine MacLean, Carol P. Roth, David Solomon, Roy Young, David Reuben

Not Shifting but Broadening Marital Research: Comments on Fincham, Stanley, and Beach

Benjamin R. Karney

Nursing Home Administrators' Opinions of the Resident Safety Culture in Nursing Homes

Nicholas G. Castle, Steven Handler, John Engberg, Kristen Sonon

Obesity and Disability: The Shape of Things to Come

Roland Sturm, Jeanne S. Ringel, Darius N. Lakdawalla, Jay Bhattacharya, Dana P. Goldman, Michael Hurd, Geoffrey F. Joyce, Constantijn (Stan) Panis, Tatiana Andreyeva

Regulating Older Drivers: Are New Policies Needed?

David S. Loughran, Seth A. Seabury, Laura Zakaras

Occasional Paper

Relationship Commitment and Its Implications for Unprotected Sex Among Impoverished Women Living in Shelters and Low-Income Housing in Los Angeles County

Joan S. Tucker, Marc N. Elliott, Suzanne L. Wenzel, Katrin Hambarsoomians

Transitions to Self-Employment at Older Ages: The Role of Wealth, Health, Health Insurance, and Other Factors

Julie Zissimopoulos, Lynn A. Karoly

Vignettes and Self-Reports of Work Disability in the United States and the Netherlands

Arie Kapteyn, James P. Smith, Arthur van Soest

What Progress Is Mississippi Making in Rebuilding Its Affordable Housing Stock After Katrina?

Kevin F. McCarthy, Mark Hanson

What Risks Do Older Drivers Pose to Traffic Safety?

David S. Loughran, Seth A. Seabury, Laura Zakaras

Work and Well-Being Among the Self-Employed at Older Ages

Lynn A. Karoly, Julie Zissimopoulos

2006

¿Implosión demográfica?: La baja fecundidad y las medidas tomadas en la Unión Europea

Jonathan Grant, Stijn Hoorens, Suja Sivadasan, Mirjam van het Loo, Julie DaVanzo, Lauren Hale, Shawna Gibson, William Butz

Acculturation and Driving Under the Influence: A Study of Repeat Offenders

Sarah Hunter, Eunice C. Wong, Christopher Beighley, Andrew R. Morral

Civilian Workforce Planning in the Department of Defense: Different Levels, Different Roles

Susan M. Gates, Christine Eibner, Edward G. Keating

Monograph

Demographics and Security in Maritime Southeast Asia

Brian Nichiporuk, Clifford A. Grammich, Angel Rabasa, Julie DaVanzo

The Design of a Multilevel Survey of Children, Families, and Communities: The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey

Narayan Sastry, Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, John L. Adams, Anne R. Pebley

An Evaluation Framework for “Foundations for Living”: Supporting Disabled People to Live Independently in the Community

Tom Ling, Edward Nason

The Global Technology Revolution 2020, Executive Summary: Bio/Nano/Materials/Information Trends, Drivers, Barriers, and Social Implications

Richard Silberglitt, Philip S. Anton, David R. Howell, Anny Wong, S. R. Bohandy, Natalie Gassman, Brian A. Jackson, Eric Landree, Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Elaine M. Newton, Felicia Wu

Monograph

The Global Technology Revolution 2020, In-Depth Analyses: Bio/Nano/Materials/Information Trends, Drivers, Barriers, and Social Implications

Richard Silberglitt, Philip S. Anton, David R. Howell, Anny Wong, Natalie Gassman, Brian A. Jackson, Eric Landree, Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Elaine M. Newton, Felicia Wu

Global Technology Revolution 2020: Technology Trends and Cross-Country Variation

Richard Silberglitt, Philip S. Anton, David R. Howell, Anny Wong, S. R. Bohandy, Natalie Gassman, Brian A. Jackson, Eric Landree, Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Elaine M. Newton, Felicia Wu

An International Comparison of Obesity in Older Adults: Effects and Risk Factors

Tatiana Andreyeva

Dissertation

Park Use and Physical Activity in a Sample of Public Parks in the City of Los Angeles

Deborah Cohen, Amber Sehgal, Stephanie Williamson, Roland Sturm, Thomas L. McKenzie, Rosa Lara, Nicole Lurie

Physical Activity and Changes in Health Care Costs in Late Middle Age

Tatiana Andreyeva, Roland Sturm

The Public Spends Little to Provide Health Care for Undocumented Immigrants

James P. Smith, Dana P. Goldman, Neeraj Sood