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Our work has focused on labor markets, social welfare policy, demographic behavior, aging issues, retirement, and international development with the common aim toward understanding why people make the decisions they do and how markets, society, and policy affect them.
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Findings and News
Behavioral Finance Forum to be Hosted by RAND — Sep. 18, 2008
The Behavioral Finance Forum, an organization dedicated to helping consumers make better financial decisions, will become an initiative of RAND Labor and Population, which includes the recently created RAND Center for Financial Decisionmaking.
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Researcher Spotlight: Emma Aguila, Associate Economist — Jul. 24, 2008
Emma Aguila, an Associate Economist at RAND and one of the founders of the Center for Latin American Social Policy (CLASP), was awarded the first place in the Inter-American Award for Research on Social Security. Her other research interests include retirement policy, and health and labor market dynamics.
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Featured Projects
Displaced New Orleans Residents Survey: Where Are Hurricane Katrina Victims Now? — Jul. 16, 2008
The new Displaced New Orleans Residents Survey (DNORS) is designed to examine the current location, well-being, and plans of people who lived in the City of New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005.
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Decision-making Health Policy Tools Help Improve the Lives of Older People — Apr. 11, 2007
The RAND Roybal Center for Health Policy Simulation works to develop better models to understand the consequences of biomedical developments and social forces for health, health spending, and health care delivery.
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Featured Research
The Design of a Multilevel Survey of Children, Families, and Communities:
The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey - 2006
Narayan Sastry, Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, John Adams, Anne R. Pebley
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The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey: Household Questionnaires - 2004
Anne R. Pebley, Narayan Sastry
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Neighborhood and Family Effects on Children's Health in Los Angeles - 2003
Narayan Sastry, Anne R. Pebley
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Concentrated Poverty vs. Concentrated Affluence: Effects on Neighborhood
Social Environments and Children's Outcomes - 2003
Anne R. Pebley, Narayan Sastry
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The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey: Codebook - 2003
Christine E. Peterson, Narayan Sastry, Anne R. Pebley, Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, Stephanie Williamson, and Sandraluz Lara-Cinisomo
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Designing Multidisciplinary Biobehavioral Research on Prematurity and
LBW: Methodological Considerations - 2003
Brian Karl Finch
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Los Angeles County Young Children's Literacy Experiences, Emotional
Well-Being and Skills Acquisition: Results from the Los Angeles Family
and Neighborhood Survey - 2003
Sandra Lara-Cinisomo, Anne R. Pebley
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