The 15th Annual RAND Summer Institute Video

David Sinclair, Judith Campisi, Caleb Finch, David Bennett, Steven Austad, Ronald Lee, David Blau, Anamaria Lusardi, David Laibson, James Banks, Ellen Peters, James P. Smith

Conference Proceeding

Ambulatory Care Sensitive Hospitalizations and Emergency Department Visits in Baltimore City

Carole Roan Gresenz, Teague Ruder, Nicole Lurie

Technical Report

Assessing Parolees' Health Care Needs and Potential Access to Health Care Services in California

Lois M. Davis, Nancy Nicosia, Adrian Overton, Lisa Miyashiro, Kathryn Pitkin Derose, Terry Fain, Susan Turner, Paul Steinberg, Eugene Williams, III

Research Brief

Assessing Patient Safety Practices and Outcomes in the U.S. Health Care System

Donna O. Farley, M. Susan Ridgely, Peter Mendel, Stephanie S. Teleki, Cheryl L. Damberg, Rebecca Shaw, Michael D. Greenberg, Amelia M. Haviland, Peter Hussey, Jacob W. Dembosky, Hao Yu, Julie A. Brown, Chau Pham, J. Scott Ashwood

Technical Report

Cellulitis-Associated Hospitalizations in Baltimore City

Carole Roan Gresenz, Teague Ruder, Nicole Lurie

Technical Report

Controlling Health Care Spending in Massachusetts

Christine Eibner, Peter Hussey, M. Susan Ridgely, Elizabeth A. McGlynn

Research Brief

Controlling Health Care Spending in Massachusetts: An Analysis of Options

Christine Eibner, Peter Hussey, M. Susan Ridgely, Elizabeth A. McGlynn

Technical Report

Estimates of Potential Eligibility for Low-Income Subsidies Under Medicare Part D

Erik Meijer, Lynn A. Karoly, Pierre-Carl Michaud

Technical Report

Financial Resources, Living Arrangements, and Private Transfers

Qiufei Ma

Dissertation

Helping Each Other in Times of Need: Financial Help as a Means of Coping with the Economic Crisis

Susann Rohwedder

Occasional Paper

How Parental HIV Affects Children

Laura M. Bogart, Burton O. Cowgill, David Kennedy, Gery W. Ryan, Jacinta Elijah, Debra A. Murphy, Mark A. Schuster, Rosalie Corona, Megan K. Beckett, Marc N. Elliott, Annie Jie Zhou, Michelle T. Parra, Susan K. Park, Jennifer Patch, , David E. Kanouse, Sally C. Morton, Samuel A. Bozzette, Angela Miu, Gwendolyn B. Scott, Martin F. Shapiro

Research Brief

Living Conditions in Anbar Province in June 2008

Keith Crane, Martin C. Libicki, Audra K. Grant, James B. Bruce, Omar Al-Shahery, Alireza Nader, Suzanne Perry

Technical Report

Neighborhood Effects on Crime and Youth Violence: The Role of Business Improvement Districts in Los Angeles

John MacDonald, Ricky N. Bluthenthal, Daniela Golinelli, Aaron Kofner, Robert J. Stokes, Amber Sehgal, Terry Fain, Leo Beletsky

Technical Report

Preserving Health among Vulnerable Populations: Three Essays

Xiaohui Zhuo

Dissertation

Qatar's Labor Markets at a Crucial Crossroad

Claude Berrebi, Francisco Martorell, Jeffery C. Tanner

External Publication

Retirement Decisions of Women and Men in Response to Their Own and Spousal Health

Serhii Ilchuk

Dissertation

Selection, Wear, and Tear: The Health of Hispanics and Hispanic Immigrants in the United States

Ricardo Basurto-Davila

Dissertation

Self-Employment among Older Workers: Assistance Programs, Liquidity Constraints and Employment Patterns

Qian Gu

Dissertation

Study on the requirements and options for Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) application in healthcare: Final report

Constantijn van Oranje-Nassau, Helen Rebecca Schindler, Lorenzo Valeri, Anna-Marie Vilamovska, Evi Hatziandreu, Annalijn Conklin

Technical Report

U.S.-U.K. Conference on Behavioral Finance and Public Policy: RAND Behavioral Finance Forum

Conference Proceeding

Understanding the Public Health Implications of Prisoner Reentry in California: Phase I Report

Lois M. Davis, Nancy Nicosia, Adrian Overton, Lisa Miyashiro, Kathryn Pitkin Derose, Terry Fain, Susan Turner, Paul Steinberg, Eugene Williams, III

Technical Report

Addressing Human Capital Challenges: Assessing the Experiences of Four Countries in the Arab Region

Gabriella Gonzalez, Lynn A. Karoly, Louay Constant, Hanine Salem, Charles A. Goldman

Research Brief

Addressing Human Capital Challenges: Assessing the Experiences of Four Countries in the Arab Region (Arabic Version)

Gabriella Gonzalez, Lynn A. Karoly, Louay Constant, Hanine Salem, Charles A. Goldman

Research Brief

Adolescent Mothers Involved in the Child Welfare System in Los Angeles: Who are They and How Can We Help Them?

Jane McClure Burstain

Dissertation

Caution Nation-Builders: Gender Assumptions Ahead

Cheryl Benard

Reprint

Economic Determinants of Obesity Among Older Americans

Yuhui Zheng

Dissertation

Facing Human Capital Challenges of the 21st Century: Education and Labor Market Initiatives in Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates

Gabriella Gonzalez, Lynn A. Karoly, Louay Constant, Hanine Salem, Charles A. Goldman

Monograph

Facing Human Capital Challenges of the 21st Century: Education and Labor Market Initiatives in Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates: Executive Summary

Gabriella Gonzalez, Lynn A. Karoly, Louay Constant, Hanine Salem, Charles A. Goldman

Monograph

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

Rae W. Archibald, Sally Sleeper

Technical Report

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 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

Research Brief

Le marché du travail européen pour les femmes émigrées (Migrant women in the EU labour force): Résumé des recherches (Summary of findings)

Jennifer Rubin, Michael S. Rendall, Lila Rabinovich, Flavia Tsang, Barbara Janta, Constantijn van Oranje-Nassau

Technical Report

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

Baoping Shang, Dana P. Goldman

Research Brief

MIGRANTINNEN IN DER ERWERBSBEVÖLKERUNG DER EU (Migrant women in the EU labour force): Zusammenfassung der Forschungsergebnisse (Summary of findings)

Jennifer Rubin, Michael S. Rendall, Lila Rabinovich, Flavia Tsang, Barbara Janta, Constantijn van Oranje-Nassau

Technical Report

Migrant women in the EU labour force: Summary of findings

Jennifer Rubin, Michael S. Rendall, Lila Rabinovich, Flavia Tsang, Barbara Janta, Constantijn van Oranje-Nassau

Technical Report

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, Michael E. Chernew, Feng Pan, Eduardo Ortiz, Robert H. Brook, A. M. Garber, Shannon Rhodes

Research Brief

The Place We Live, the Health We Have: A Multi-Level, Life Course Perspective on the Effects of Residential Segregation and Neighborhood Poverty on Health and Racial Health Disparities

D. Phuong Do

Dissertation

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

Kevin F. McCarthy, Mark Hanson

Technical Report

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

Technical Report

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 J. 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 J. Neumann, Jerry M. Sollinger

Corporate Publication

Rebuilding Affordable Housing on the Gulf Coast: Lessons Learned in Mississippi from Hurricane Katrina

Mark A. Bernstein, Julie Kim, Paul Sorensen, Mark Hanson, Adrian Overton, Scott Hiromoto, Kevin F. McCarthy

Research Brief

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

Research Brief

Sanctions in the CalWORKs Program

Jacob Alex Klerman, Jane McClure Burstain

Technical Report

Supporting independent living for disabled people: An evaluation of the Foundations for Living project

Edward Nason, Lila Rabinovich, Tom Ling, Lidia Villalba van Dijk

Technical Report

Valuing Benefits in Benefit-Cost Studies of Social Programs

Lynn A. Karoly

Technical Report

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

External Publication

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

Technical Report

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

Reprint

Application of Assessing Care of Vulnerable Elders-3 Quality Indicators to Patients with Advanced Dementia and Poor Prognosis

Neil S. Wenger, David Solomon, Alpesh Amin, Richard K. Besdine, Dan G. Blazer, Harvey Cohen, Terry Fulmer, Patricia A. Ganz, Mark Grunwald, William J. Hall, Paul R. Katz, Dalane W. Kitzman, Rosanne M. Leipzig, Ronnie A. Rosenthal

External Publication