2013-04-14T13:33:22Z Copyright (c) 2013, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/topics/foster-care.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19900901.html Jan 1, 1990 Jan 1, 1990

<p>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.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20010515.html Jan 1, 2001 Jan 1, 2001

<p>To describe the amount and nature of violence exposure and examine the relationship between violence exposure and distress symptoms among children in foster care.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG745.html Feb 5, 2009 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.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG829.html Feb 4, 2009 Feb 4, 2009

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.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9352.html May 8, 2008 May 8, 2008

<p>This research brief describes how insights from the field of economics &mdash; human capital theory and monetary payoffs &mdash; provide science-based guidance for early childhood policy.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9413/index2.html

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.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_briefs/RB9438.html Apr 8, 2009 Apr 8, 2009

<p>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.</p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR121.html Jun 3, 2004 Jun 3, 2004

<p>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. </p>

http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR643.html Nov 12, 2008 Nov 12, 2008

<p>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. </p>

http://www.rand.org/about/people/m/mullins_leslie.html

<em>Assistant Policy Analyst</em><br>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

http://www.rand.org/about/people/s/schultz_dana.html

<em>Senior Policy Analyst</em><br>M.P.P. in public policy, Harvard University