Research conducted by: RAND Child Policy; RAND Health
All Items (10)
RESEARCH BRIEF
Discusses the large disparities between boys and men of color in California compared with their white counterparts across four broad domains -- socioeconomic, health, safety, and ready to learn.
RESEARCH BRIEF
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
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 reached $23.4 billion in 2005, including the burden of addiction, premature death, drug treatment and many other aspects of the drug.
REPORT
This study assesses the state of the art in determining the economic value of social programs for use in benefit-cost analysis (BCA). It finds that rarely are the benefits of social programs consistently or accurately monetized and suggests ways to advance the use of BCA in evaluating social programs' economic returns.
RESEARCH BRIEF
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
An overview of the results from the first wave of the California Health and Social Services Survey, fielded by RAND in 2000-2001 as part of its impact analysis of the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program. A total of 2905 current and former CalWORKs recipients in six countries were surveyed.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
To describe the amount and nature of violence exposure and examine the relationship between violence exposure and distress symptoms among children in foster care.
JOURNAL ARTICLE
Homelessness was reported as due primarily to economic pressures of housing costs, but personal and family problems frequently played a contributing role, especially for single parent families. Burdens of increasing housing costs and family dysfunction among housed poor families place many at risk for homelessness.
PEOPLE
Policy Analyst
M.P.P. in public policy, Harvard University