RAND work in law, business, and regulation includes analyses of alternative dispute resolution, asbestos litigation, workers' compensation, insurance, and other civil justice matters. This research often has implications for the private sector, such as entrepreneurs facing legal and regulatory hurdles, or multinational corporations dealing with corporate ethics and governance issues.
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National health insurance (NHI) can be "financed" by requiring employers to pay insurance premiums for employees and their families. The costs in 1980 for any such programs can be estimated through a series of tables provided in this paper. In addi...
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As the U.S. political system moves toward concepts of group (rather than individual) civil rights, ethnicity has emerged as a major civil grouping principle.
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Addresses the issue of the remarkable record of a small number of less-developed countries (the so-called Newly Industrialized Countries--especially Korea, Brazil, Taiwan, and Singapore) in realizing sustained economic development in the past decade....
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One of a series of critiques of Lindblom's book written for Georgetown University's Ethics and Public Policy Center. Lindblom's work emphasizes, among other things, what the author sees as the overwhelming reactionary power of the business elite in ...
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This paper represents the first empirical application of a model of trade union behavior that has been discussed in the literature for over thirty years. The wages and employment of typographers are examined to see whether they can be usefully chara...
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A commentary on three papers presented at the American Enterprise Conference on Rationing of Medical Services. Examines medical services and the equity of health care: ...
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Reviews the background, effects, and problems of California's Uniform Determinate Sentencing Act, passed in 1976 with subsequent amendments. The act defined sentencing policies, acted to stabilize the prison population and the lengths of prison term...
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Plaintiff attorneys on personal injury cases are typically paid a contingent fee. Contingent fees are widely believed to induce excessive litigation and are increasingly regulated.
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Mechanisms for the implementation of civil rights guarantees by educational institutions
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California justice under determinate sentencing : a review and agenda for research
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The proceedings of a workshop investigating options for future research on improving teams and team performance.
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Evaluates the quality of some of the diary and claim data from the first year of the Health Insurance Study. The control group appeared to underreport health service use substantially on both health diaries and on claims. Experimentals appeared to s...
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Provides estimates of effects of children on asset accumulation, asset composition, consumption, and family income. The net effect of young children is to depress savings for young families, but to increase savings for marriages of duration greater t...
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Constitutes a frankly experimental attempt to assess the recent scholarly literature in urban economics for its relevance to the policy problems of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
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Uses time series data on U.S. labor market variables by sex and single years of age and on fertility, to estimate a neoclassical model of the aggregate labor market. The estimated model conforms well with evidence from studies with microdata. The mo...
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An examination of the logic of the parallel-path approach to the solution of development problems.
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Examines labor market conditions in five communities of rural Guatemala, focusing on differing roles of women and children in the labor market. The data describe economic activities in 1974 of 1000 families in four rural villages in which subsistence...
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Labor supply equations are often estimated by regressing hours worked on a wage measure which is itself the quotient of income and hours, leading to downward biases. The author shows that where both income and hours of work are measured with error, ...
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Description of a micro-level urban simulation model of Cook County, Illinois. Although similar to the NBER Urban Simulation Model in its emphasis of polycentric employment locations, heterogeneous housing bundles, neighborhood externalities, and disc...
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