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On Balanced Games Without Side Payments: A Correction

The purpose of this paper is to repair Lemma 6.3 appearing in the author's previous paper of the same title (P-4910, September 1972).

May 1, 2021

Lloyd S. Shapley
Report

Limited Opportunity: Changes in Employment and the American Middle Class

Belonging to the American middle class has become more challenging. The authors of this Perspective discuss the subtle but important changes that have blocked many pathways into the middle class and propose starting points for building new ones.

Apr 22, 2021

Melanie A. Zaber, Jeffrey B. Wenger
Journal Article

Delivering the Promise of Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction in Fragile and Conflict-Affected Contexts (FCAC): A Case Study of the NGO GOAL's Response to the Syria Conflict

This paper offers a case study of international NGO GOAL's programming that responds to the protracted crisis in Syria, with critical discussion on SFDRR and how to adapt humanitarian relief and disaster resilience.

Apr 22, 2021

Sonny Patel, Bernard McCaul, Gabriela Cáceres, Ronak B. Patel, Aaron Clark-Ginsberg
Report

Changing the Subject: K–12 Teachers' Use of and Access to Science-Specific Instructional Materials, Feedback, and Professional Learning

In this Data Note, researchers use the 2020 American Instructional Resources Survey to examine how teachers' science instruction is supported and whether supports differ from those that teachers reported for English language arts and math.

Apr 21, 2021

Sy Doan, Al Lucero
Research Brief

Reducing Hospital Spending: Three Policy Options

This Research Brief summarizes the spending impact of policy options to reduce hospital prices paid by private health plans, outlining design choices and effectiveness levels for each approach.

Apr 21, 2021

Jodi L. Liu, Zachary M. Levinson, Nabeel Shariq Qureshi, Christopher M. Whaley
Journal Article

Association Between Receipt of Emotional Support and Caregivers' Overall Hospice Rating

"Too much emotional support" is not always viewed negatively in consumer ratings of hospice care.

Apr 21, 2021

Layla Parast, Marc N. Elliott, Ann C. Haas, Joan M. Teno, Melissa A. Bradley, Robert Weech-Maldonado, Rebecca Anhang Price
Dissertation

Dissemination of Vaccine Misinformation on Twitter and Its Countermeasures

Employs state-of-the-art machine learning models to collect the first dataset of vaccine misinformation from Twitter disseminated from January 2018 to April 2019 and proposes plausible actions.

Apr 21, 2021

Christine Chen
Commercial Book

Sharing the Covers: Every Couple's Guide to Better Sleep

Help your relationships and your body with this definitive guide on sleep for couples -- with proven strategies to improve both sleep and relationship health -- by a clinical psychologist named as one of the top experts on the science of sleep.

Apr 20, 2021

Wendy M. Troxel
Report

What Deters and Why: The State of Deterrence in Korea and the Taiwan Strait

As part of a series of reports in which RAND researchers examine the established concepts of deterrence and develop a framework for evaluating the strength of deterrent relationships, this report explores two ongoing examples of extended deterrence.

Apr 19, 2021

Michael J. Mazarr, Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga, Timothy R. Heath, Derek Eaton
Report

Barriers to Price and Quality Transparency in Health Care Markets

RAND researchers gathered information on how health care prices are set, price variation in health care markets, barriers to price and quality transparency for consumers, and the extent to which price and quality information is used in marketing.

Apr 19, 2021

Preethi Rao, Shira H. Fischer, Mary E. Vaiana, Erin Audrey Taylor
Report

What Deters and Why: Applying a Framework to Assess Deterrence of Gray Zone Aggression

In this report, RAND researchers identify eight common characteristics of gray zone aggression, develop a framework for assessing the health of U.S. and partner deterrence in the gray zone, and apply the framework to three case studies.

Apr 19, 2021

Michael J. Mazarr, Joe Cheravitch, Jeffrey W. Hornung, Stephanie Pezard
Report

Reducing Rework in Officer Appointment Processes

Appointment scrolls are required for officers to enter the services and to take on service in a different grade, military service, or component. This report contains recommendations for increasing the efficiency of the scroll creation process.

Apr 19, 2021

Katherine L. Kidder, Albert A. Robbert, John C. Jackson, Hannah Acheson-Field
Report

Contemporary Issues in Gun Policy: Essays from the RAND Gun Policy in America Project

This report, part of RAND's Gun Policy in America project, presents essays that synthesize the available scientific data on topics pertinent to firearm policy in the United States, such as mass shootings and firearm and ammunition taxes.

Apr 15, 2021

Rajeev Ramchand, Jessica Saunders
Report

Transforming Global Education Through Evidence: An Evaluation System for the BHP Foundation's Education Equity Global Signature Program

In this report, researchers develop a framework to evaluate the BHP Foundation's Education Equity Global Signature Program, explain methods for assessing progress over five years, and present preliminary results after a year of evaluation.

Apr 15, 2021

Benjamin K. Master, Shelly Culbertson, Brian Phillips, Elaine Lin Wang, Harold D. Green, Joe Francombe, Hamish Evans, Susan Guthrie
Report

Transforming Global Education Through Evidence: An Evaluation System for the BHP Foundation's Education Equity Global Signature Program—Executive Summary

This report is a summary of research for the evaluation of the BHP Foundation's Education Equity Global Signature Program.

Apr 15, 2021

Benjamin K. Master, Shelly Culbertson, Brian Phillips, Elaine Lin Wang, Harold D. Green, Joe Francombe, Hamish Evans, Susan Guthrie
Report

The Iran Threat Network (ITN): Four Models of Iran's Nonstate Client Partnerships

The authors explore Iran's relationships with nonstate actors to better enable the U.S. government to counter Iranian subversion in the region via the Iran Threat Network, a loose network of non-Iranian, nonstate groups supported by Tehran.

Apr 14, 2021

Ariane M. Tabatabai, Jeffrey Martini, Becca Wasser
Research Brief

U.S. Prescription Drug Prices Are 2.5 Times Those in Other OECD Countries

RAND researchers used 2018 prescription drug volume and price data to compare U.S. drug prices with those in 32 other nations, both overall and for specific categories of drugs, such as brand-name and generic medications.

Apr 14, 2021

Andrew W. Mulcahy, Christopher M. Whaley, Mahlet Gizaw, Daniel Schwam, Nathaniel Edenfield, Alejandro U. Becerra-Ornelas
Journal Article

Study on 'Support to the Observatory for the Online Platform Economy' Analytical paper #4: Online platforms with significant/strategic market status

This paper examines evidence in order to better understand various issues relating to, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of, emerging approaches to identifying online platforms with significant/strategic market status.

Apr 14, 2021

Advait Deshpande, Cagla Stevenson, Amelia Harshfield, Salil Gunashekar
Journal Article

Study on 'Support to the Observatory for the Online Platform Economy' Analytical paper #8: Developments concerning B2B platforms and emerging cloud services

The aim of this analytical paper is to understand developments concerning B2B platforms, and the emerging issues that they may face and that they give rise to.

Apr 14, 2021

Advait Deshpande, Cagla Stevenson, Mann Virdee, Salil Gunashekar
Journal Article

A Qualitative Evaluation of Housing for Health in Los Angeles County

This study uses data from 14 qualitative interviews with senior leaders and nine focus groups with tenants and program staff to understand tenant experiences with permanent supportive housing programs, as they relate to care coordination.

Apr 13, 2021

Alina I. Palimaru, Kathryn G. Kietzman, Nadereh Pourat, Ricardo Basurto-Davila

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