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The Costs of Methamphetamine Use: A National Estimate — Apr 8, 2009

The economic cost of methamphetamine use reached more than an estimated $23 billion in 2005, mostly from the intangible burden that addiction places on dependent users and their premature mortality and from crime and criminal justice costs.

Report

Report Quantifies Level of Disadvantage Faced by Boys and Men of Color in California — Feb 5, 2009

The first multi-dimensional effort to quantify the disparities faced by African-American and Latino boys and men in California across a broad spectrum of health and social factors provides a disquieting outlook for their lives.

Report

The Economic Cost of Methamphetamine Use in the United States, 2005 — Jan 27, 2009

The first national estimate of the economic cost of methamphetamine considers burdens of addiction, early death, drug treatment, lost productivity, crime and criminal justice, health care, production and environmental hazards, and child endangerment.

Report

Valuing Benefits in Benefit-Cost Studies of Social Programs — Oct 27, 2008

An assessment of the state of the art of measurement and use of estimated economic value -- "shadow prices" -- in benefit-cost analysis (BCA) of social programs, with recommendations for methodological work to advance the use of BCAs in such programs.

Research Brief

What Does Economics Tell Us About Early Childhood Policy? — May 8, 2008

This research brief describes how insights from the field of economics -- human capital theory and monetary payoffs -- provide science-based guidance for early childhood policy.

Report

Results from the First California Health and Social Services Survey — Jun 3, 2004

Presents results from the first wave of the California Health and Social Services Survey of 2,905 current and former CalWORKs recipients in six California counties.

Journal Article

Violence Exposure Among School-Age Children in Foster Care: Relationship to Distress Symptoms — Jan 1, 2001

Amount and nature of violence exposure and examine the relationship between violence exposure and distress symptoms among children in foster care.

Journal Article

Homeless and Housed Families in Los Angeles: A Study Comparing Demographic, Economic, and Family Function Characteristics — Jan 1, 1990

Authors studied homeless and housed poor families in Los Angeles, California to gain an understanding of events that precipitate family homelessness.

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Leslie Mullins

Assistant Policy Analyst
Ph.D candidate in policy analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School; M.C.P. in city planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; B.S. in civil engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

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Dana Schultz

Senior Policy Analyst
M.P.P. in public policy, Harvard University

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Leslie Mullins is an assistant policy analyst at the RAND Corporation and a doctoral fellow at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Mullins has over ten years of experience in affordable housing finance, community development, homelessness, supportive housing and affordable housing development.…

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