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Pardee RAND Dissertations using Pardee Center Methods

Many Pardee RAND Graduate School students have used robust decision making and decision making under deep uncertainty in their dissertations.

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Jun 4, 2024

The Potential for Artificial Intelligence Assistance in Funding Research

Investigates the potential of Artificial Intelligence in transforming decision-making processes within funding agencies, which include governmental, quasi-governmental, and private organizations that finance research and innovation.

Hamad Al-Ibrahim
May 11, 2023

Beliefs, Needs, and Participation: Aligning Risk Governance and Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty Methods

Explores three ways that incorporating social heterogeneity derived from risk governance principles can enhance the application of decision making under deep uncertainty-based analyses of disasters.

Sara Turner
May 3, 2023

Coherence to Choices: Informing Decisions on Public-Private Partnerships in the Space Sector

Presents a comprehensive set of research on the topic of space public-private partnerships to move forward from the rudimentary discourse to critical discussions and analytical investigations.

Moon Kim
Dec 22, 2022

Robust Decision Making in Health Policy: Applications to COVID-19 and Colorectal Cancer

Presents three papers exploring the utility of Robust Decision Making for supporting health policy decisions.

Pedro Nascimento de Lima
Oct 5, 2022

A Proposed Decision Framework for DoD Investment in Nuclear Energy Technology: Focused on Microreactors at DoD Locations in the U.S.

Proposes a decision framework to help DoD decisionmakers determine whether an investment in nuclear energy technologies is worthwhile.

Kyle D. Haak
Sep 14, 2018

Harmonizing Discretionary Policy Choice with Fiscal Rule Making: Mexico after Fiscal and Energy Sector Reforms

Studies the long-term effectiveness and vulnerability of a diverse set of fiscal policies, which propose lump-sum transfers and different consumption tax exemptions.

Eduardo Marquez Pena
Aug 31, 2018

Choose Wisely: A Study of College Major Choice and Major Switching Behavior

This dissertation explores the college major decision-making process, both for initial and subsequent major choices, and analyzes the associations between major choice behaviors and student outcomes such as time to degree and probability of graduation.

Cameron Wright
May 15, 2018

Value of Information for Policy Analysis

This dissertation considers the viability of applying Value of Information methods in complex systems for policy analysis, concluding that these methods can be applied, but that different methods are appropriate in different cases.

David Manheim
Mar 11, 2016

Directed International Technological Change and Climate Policy: New Methods for Identifying Robust Policies Under Conditions of Deep Uncertainty

Explores new methods to the study of international technological change and climate policy providing useful insights that can be used for designing a robust architecture of international technological cooperation for climate change mitigation.

Edmundo Molina-Perez
Mar 27, 2015

Changing Midstream: Providing Decision Support for Adaptive Strategies using Robust Decision Making: Applications in the Colorado River Basin

Examines how Robust Decision Making can provide decision support to natural resource planners as they create, evaluate, and deliberate about adaptive strategies.

Evan Bloom
Dec 24, 2014

Strategies for Managing Sovereign Debt: A Robust Decision Making Approach

Examines and demonstrates how the Robust Decision Making methodology could be applied to the problem of selecting the government's debt portfolio.

Shmuel Abramzon
Sep 29, 2014

The Political Sustainability of Carbon Control Policies in an Evolutionary Economics Setting

Analyzes the long term coevolution of market structures, technological change and government institutions.

Steven C. Isley

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