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Functional Limitations and Employment Among Disability Benefit Recipients with Musculoskeletal Conditions: A Mediation Analysis

This paper uses the National Beneficiary Survey to study the relationship between functional limitations, health conditions and employment among disability beneficiaries with musculoskeletal conditions in a multivariate mediation analysis.

Feb 19, 2019

Zachary A. Morris, Stephanie Rennane
Report

Report

Science-Based Scenario Design: A Proposed Method to Support Political-Strategic Analysis

How can nonmilitary factors be used in defense planning? The authors distinguish between political-strategic and military decisions and discuss recent findings regarding crisis and war variables to create science-based structured scenarios.

Feb 18, 2019

Timothy R. Heath, Matthew Lane
Report

Report

Assessing Retention and Special and Incentive Pays for Army and Navy Commissioned Officers in the Special Operations Forces

This report focuses on the effectiveness of monetary incentives, known as special and incentive pays, for U.S. Special Operations Forces commissioned officer retention.

Feb 18, 2019

Beth J. Asch, Michael G. Mattock, James Hosek, Shanthi Nataraj
Journal Article

Journal Article

Market Power and Price Discrimination in the US Market for Higher Education

We estimate an equilibrium model of private and public college competition and pricing using the NPSAS. We find substantial exercise of inefficient market power and, importantly, sizable variation by both college quality and student characteristics.

Feb 15, 2019

Dennis N. Epple, Richard Romano, Sinan Sarpca, Holger Sieg, Melanie A. Zaber
Report

Report

Organising for excellence: An international review of good practice in organisational design and governance of research funding bodies

RAND Europe was commissioned to review and synthesise evidence on organisational design and governance in order to help inform the design and structure of the new UK research funding body, UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

Feb 15, 2019

Molly Morgan Jones, Louise Lepetit, Joachim Krapels, Catherine A. Lichten, Anton Spisak, Catriona Manville
Research Brief

Building an Effective and Practical National Approach to Terrorism Prevention

RAND researchers examined past U.S. countering violent extremism and terrorism prevention efforts and explored options to strengthen them. They found that current capabilities are relatively limited and future efforts must build trust to succeed.

Feb 14, 2019

Brian A. Jackson, Ashley L. Rhoades, Jordan R. Reimer, Natasha Lander, Katherine Costello, Sina Beaghley
Report

Report

Patient and public involvement in research: Enabling meaningful contributions

This report looks at how to effectively involve patients and the public in health research.

Feb 14, 2019

Sarah Ball, Amelia Harshfield, Asha Carpenter, Adam Bertscher, Sonja Marjanovic
Report

Educator Access to and Use of Data Systems

This American Educator Panels Data Note details teachers' access to and use of data systems.

Feb 14, 2019

Tiffany Tsai, Katie Tosh
Report

Report

Practical Terrorism Prevention: Executive Summary

Researchers examined past U.S. countering violent extremism and terrorism prevention efforts and explored options to strengthen them. This document summarizes findings from the main report.

Feb 14, 2019

Brian A. Jackson, Ashley L. Rhoades, Jordan R. Reimer, Natasha Lander, Katherine Costello, Sina Beaghley
Report

Report

Practical Terrorism Prevention: Reexamining U.S. National Approaches to Addressing the Threat of Ideologically Motivated Violence

Researchers examined past U.S. countering violent extremism and terrorism prevention efforts and explored options to strengthen them. They found that current capabilities are relatively limited and that future efforts must build trust to succeed.

Feb 14, 2019

Brian A. Jackson, Ashley L. Rhoades, Jordan R. Reimer, Natasha Lander, Katherine Costello, Sina Beaghley
Journal Article

Journal Article

Differences in Substance Use Disparities Across Age Groups in a National Cross-Sectional Survey of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Adults

Using national data, we test for age differences in substance use disparities among LGB adults. Contrary to hypothesized decreased minority stress in recent generations, we find that disparities were not systematically smaller in younger age groups.

Feb 12, 2019

Megan S. Schuler, Bradley D. Stein, Rebecca L. Collins
Journal Article

Journal Article

Text-Based Writing in Elementary Classrooms: Teachers' Conceptions and Practice

In the present study, we investigate how teachers conceptualize text-based writing and how these conceptions influence the writing tasks they assign.

Feb 12, 2019

Elaine Lin Wang, Lindsay Clare Matsumura
Report

Report

Estimating Potential Savings in Department of Defense Activities

There is a push to make the U.S. government run like the private sector. Alternatives to this approach that attempt to account for the complexity and uniqueness of the U.S. Department of Defense are presented in this report.

Feb 11, 2019

J. Michael Gilmore, William Shelton, Sarah Harting
Report

Report

Integrating Active and Reserve Component Staff Organizations: Improving the Chances of Success

A RAND Corporation study undertook a literature review and analysis of several case studies to examine factors that could increase the likelihood of success in integrating active and reserve component military staff organizations.

Feb 11, 2019

Laurinda L. Rohn, Agnes Gereben Schaefer, Gregory A. Schumacher, Jennifer Kavanagh, Caroline Baxter, Amy Grace Donohue
Research Brief

Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching Enhanced How Teachers Are Evaluated But Had Little Effect on Student Outcomes

The authors of Improving Teaching Effectiveness: Final Report obtained some new funding information after publication. This brief complements the resource results in the report, taking this new information into account.

Feb 11, 2019

Brian M. Stecher, Deborah J. Holtzman, Michael S. Garet, Laura S. Hamilton, John Engberg, Elizabeth D. Steiner, Abby Robyn, Matthew D. Baird, Italo A. Gutierrez, Evan D. Peet, Iliana Brodziak de los Reyes, Kaitlin Fronberg, Gabriel Weinberger, Gerald Paul Hunter, Jay Chambers
Journal Article

Journal Article

The Use of Responsive Circles in Schools: An Exploratory Study

The purpose of the study was to examine how educators use responsive circles. We aimed to fill a gap in the literature by offering details about their implementation based on enacted responsive circles in a large urban school setting.

Feb 8, 2019

Elaine Lin Wang, Emma Lee
Journal Article

Journal Article

Of Bombs and Bureaucrats: Internal Drivers of Nuclear Force Building in China and the United States

This article examines the domestic influences on US and Chinese nuclear forces. While strategic factors largely drive each side's, underappreciated domestic and organizational factors also influence outcomes.

Feb 8, 2019

Eric Heginbotham, Jacob Heim, Christopher P. Twomey
Testimony

The Consolidation of Political Power in China Under Xi Jinping: Implications for the PLA and Domestic Security Forces

Testimony presented before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on February 7, 2019.

Feb 7, 2019

Timothy R. Heath
Research Brief

Research Brief

Understanding Researcher Mobility

This research brief sets out the results from a 2017 survey of researchers in the UK and a review of the literature around patterns, drivers and barriers, and benefits and consequences of international mobility for researchers.

Feb 7, 2019

Susan Guthrie, Catherine A. Lichten, Emma Harte, Sarah Parks, Steven Wooding
Research Brief

How Educators and Employers Can Align Efforts to Fill Middle-Skills STEM Jobs

This Research Brief explores the alignment of oil and gas industry--related college courses with employer needs in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia, as well as ways in which employers and educators can collaborate to improve these courses.

Feb 7, 2019

Gabriella C. Gonzalez, Christopher Joseph Doss, Julia H. Kaufman, Robert Bozick

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