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A Natural Experiment to Test the Effect of Sanction Certainty and Celerity on Substance-Impaired Driving: North Dakota's 24/7 Sobriety Program

Over half of participants ordered to abstain from substance use complete 24/7 Sobriety without a detected substance use event. At the county level, the program is associated with a 9% reduction in substance-impaired driving arrests.

May 7, 2020

Gregory Midgette, Beau Kilmer, Nancy Nicosia, Paul Heaton
Report

Countering Drug-Impaired Driving: Addressing the Complexities of Gathering and Presenting Evidence in Drug-Impaired Driving Cases

Driving under the influence of drugs is a serious and growing threat to public safety. Addressing these cases involves identifying impairment and presenting complex evidence in court. A panel of experts identified ways to address this challenge.

May 7, 2020

Camille Gourdet, Michael J. D. Vermeer, Michael G. Planty, Duren Banks, Dulani Woods, Brian A. Jackson
Report

Report

Modeling the Impact of Border-Enforcement Measures

This report offers insights into effects of surveillance technology on border outcomes. The underlying research demonstrated the promise and limits of quasi-experimental statistical methods for evaluating the impact of border-enforcement measures.

May 7, 2020

Elina Treyger, Michael W. Robbins, Joseph C. Chang, Stephanie Tanverakul
Testimony

China's Health System Reform and Global Health Strategy in the Context of COVID-19

Testimony presented before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission on May 7, 2020.

May 7, 2020

Jennifer Bouey
Journal Article

Criminal Deterrence: Evidence From an Individual-Level Analysis of 24/7 Sobriety

This paper provides policymakers with evidence for a new approach to reduce criminal activity among those whose alcohol use leads them to repeatedly threaten public health and safety.

May 7, 2020

Beau Kilmer, Gregory Midgette
Journal Article

Still HOPEful: Reconsidering a "Failed" Replication of a Swift, Certain, and Fair Approach to Reducing Substance Use Among Individuals Under Criminal Justice Supervision

Combined with other studies of “swift-certain-fair”-style interventions, the HOPE replication further strengthens the conclusion that these methods reduce substance use among people under criminal justice supervision.

May 7, 2020

Keith Humphreys, Beau Kilmer
Report

Report

The Appalachia Partnership Initiative's Investments in Education, Workforce Development, and Catalyzing the Community: Reflections from 2014 Through 2019

RAND researchers trace the impact of the Appalachia Partnership Initiative investments on science, technology, engineering, and math education for grades K-12 and energy and advanced manufacturing workforce development from 2014 through 2019.

May 6, 2020

Gabriella C. Gonzalez, Nupur Nanda, Shelly Culbertson, Harold D. Green, Kristin J. Leuschner
Report

Report

Exploring the use of Zcash cryptocurrency for illicit or criminal purposes

To help inform public debate and decision making, RAND Europe explored the uses of cryptocurrencies for illicit or criminal purposes, focusing on the Zcash cryptocurrency, in a research project commissioned by the Electric Coin Company.

May 6, 2020

Erik Silfversten, Marina Favaro, Linda Slapakova, Sascha Ishikawa, James Liu, Adrian Salas
Research Brief

Critical Care Surge Capacity in U.S. Hospitals: Strategies for Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic

In this brief, the authors present methods for creating critical care surge capacity in hospitals in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and estimate patient capacity, given the number of doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists, ventilators, and beds.

May 5, 2020

Mahshid Abir, Christopher Nelson, Edward W. Chan, Hamad Al-Ibrahim, Christina Cutter, Karishma Patel, Andy Bogart
Testimony

The Federal Research Enterprise and COVID-19: A Lesson in Unpreparedness

Remarks presented to the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee at a virtual roundtable on May 5, 2020.

May 5, 2020

Daniel M. Gerstein
Journal Article

Journal Article

The Nuffield Early Language Intervention: Evaluation Report

An evaluation of the Nuffield Early Language Intervention observed 1,156 students across 193 schools through a randomised control trial. The study found the intervention added three months progress in language skills compared to non-participants.

May 5, 2020

Sashka Dimova, Sonia Ilie, Elena Rosa Brown, Miriam Broeks, Andreas Culora, Alex Sutherland
Journal Article

Journal Article

The Research Crisis in American Institutions of Complementary and Integrative Health: One Proposed Solution for Chiropractic Profession

The future success of CIH-directed research on CIH will require a pooling of talent and resources across institutions; something that the American chiropractic institutions have not yet been able to achieve. This article discusses one possible solution.

May 5, 2020

Ian D. Coulter, Patricia M. Herman
Journal Article

Journal Article

Association of Medicare Part D Benzodiazepine Coverage Expansion With Changes in Fall-Related Injuries and Overdoses Among Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries

This study found an increase in the rate of overdose after Medicare Part D coverage began to include benzodiazepines among adults aged 65 to 69 years and 80 years or older and an increase in the rate of fall-related injury in adults 80 years or older.

May 5, 2020

Donovan T. Maust, Lewei Allison Lin, Jason E. Goldstick, Rebecca Lee Haffajee, Rebecca Brownlee, Amy S. Bohnert
Report

Report

Data-Informed Jails: Challenges and Opportunities

Jails produce vast amounts of data because of the expanding scope of services they are expected to provide. However, most jails are not using these data to improve operations or outcomes. A panel of experts identified ways to address this challenge.

May 4, 2020

Joe Russo, Michael J. D. Vermeer, Dulani Woods, Brian A. Jackson
Tool

Helpers in Plain Sight: A Guide to Implementing Mental Health Task Sharing in Community-Based Organizations

The United States is facing a mental health crisis, but a large proportion of those who need treatment never get it. Task sharing -- training the staff of community-based organizations to provide some mental health support -- can be part of the solution.

May 4, 2020

Clare Stevens, Elise Tosatti, Lynsay Ayer, Dionne Barnes-Proby, Gary Belkin, Sarah Lieff, Monique Martineau
Report

Report

The Marine Transportation System, Autonomous Technology, and Implications for the U.S. Coast Guard

The authors briefly explore some emerging issues for the U.S. Coast Guard related to increasingly autonomous systems and the Marine Transportation System.

May 4, 2020

Scott Savitz, Aaron C. Davenport, Michelle D. Ziegler
Tool

The Health and Economic Impacts of Nonpharmaceutical Interventions to Address COVID-19: A Decision Support Tool for State and Local Policymakers

There is an urgent need for an assessment of public health interventions to address coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and determine when to relax them. This document describes the COVID-19 Decision Support Tool, which is designed to fill that need.

May 4, 2020

Raffaele Vardavas, Aaron Strong, Jennifer Bouey, Jonathan William Welburn, Pedro Nascimento de Lima, Lawrence Baker, Keren Zhu, Michelle Priest, Lynn Hu, Jeanne S. Ringel
Report

An Estimation of the Economic Costs of Social-Distancing Policies

This report offers a series of economic models that provide an initial assessment of possible short-term economy-wide effects of some social-distancing policies during the coronavirus disease 2019 crisis.

May 4, 2020

Aaron Strong, Jonathan William Welburn
Journal Article

Geolocating Explosive Growth in Preschools in Western China Due to 'Re-Education' Policies

Twenty facilities that imagery analysis, press and professional journals suggest house Uighur children have been identified in this first study of geolocating China's detention infrastructure targeting Uighurs and other Muslim minority groups.

May 1, 2020

Edmund J. Burke, Katherine Pfrommer
Multimedia

State-of-the-Art Strategies for Addressing Selection Bias When Comparing Two or More Treatment Groups

This course introduces causal modeling using the potential outcomes framework and propensity score weights to estimate causal effects from observational data.

May 1, 2020

Beth Ann Griffin, Daniel F. McCaffrey, Lane F. Burgette, Matthew Cefalu, Brian G. Vegetabile, Joseph D. Pane, Donna L. Coffman

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