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Understanding the Factors That Will Impact the Succession to Vladimir Putin as Russian President

This Perspective explores the factors and possible scenarios for the succession to Russian President Vladimir Putin and provides policy suggestions for US officials in managing a political transition.

Jul 28, 2020

John Tefft
Journal Article

Journal Article

School's Out: The Role of Summers in Understanding Achievement Disparities

We use a novel data set with more than 200 million test scores for students across the United States to explore whether the "fanning out" of achievement from Grades 1 to 8 occurs while students are in school or during the intervening summers.

Jul 28, 2020

Allison Atteberry, Andrew McEachin
Journal Article

Systematic Review of the Emerging Literature on the Effectiveness of Naloxone Access Laws in the United States

The existing literature on naloxone access laws in the United States supports beneficial effects for increased naloxone distribution, but provides inconclusive evidence for reduced fatal opioid overdose.

Jul 28, 2020

Rosanna Smart, Bryce Pardo, Corey S. Davis
Journal Article

Journal Article

Not Where You Start, but How Much You Grow: An Addendum to the Coleman Report

The Coleman Report (1966) first suggested that schools play a relatively small part in shaping students' achievement. The results in this paper suggest a need to update this conventional wisdom.

Jul 28, 2020

Allison Atteberry, Andrew McEachin
Report

How Smart Cities Could Improve Open Data Portals to Empower Local Residents and Businesses: A Case Study of the City of Los Angeles and COVID-19

In this Perspective, the authors provide generalizable strategies that city leaders could adopt to improve the utility of their open data portals to facilitate local access to information and promote community-based problem-solving.

Jul 27, 2020

Jared Mondschein, Shannon Prier, Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, Edward Parker
Report

Whose Story Wins: Rise of the Noosphere, Noopolitik, and Information-Age Statecraft

In this Perspective, the authors urge strategists to consider a new concept for U.S. grand strategy— noopolitik , which focuses on "soft power"—to supersede realpolitik, which has relied on "hard power" to counter U.S. adversaries.

Jul 27, 2020

David Ronfeldt, John Arquilla
Report

Which Parents Need the Most Support While K–12 Schools and Child Care Centers Are Physically Closed?

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been particularly challenging for parents as schools and child care centers closed or switched to distance learning in spring 2020. RAND researchers examine which parents need the most support.

Jul 27, 2020

Julia H. Kaufman, Laura S. Hamilton, Melissa Diliberti
Report

China's Grand Strategy: Trends, Trajectories, and Long-Term Competition

To explore what extended competition between the United States and China might entail out to 2050, the authors of this report assessed how successful China might be at implementing its grand strategy goals over the next three decades.

Jul 24, 2020

Andrew Scobell, Edmund J. Burke, Cortez A. III Cooper, Sale Lilly, Chad J. R. Ohlandt, Eric Warner, J.D. Williams
Journal Article

Journal Article

Factors Related to Health Civic Engagement: Results from the 2018 National Survey of Health Attitudes to Understand Progress Towards a Culture of Health

Health civic engagement may help improve conditions that influence health and well-being for all. Focusing on individuals' sense of community and highlighting investments in community health may be associated with increased health civic engagement and improved community and population health.

Jul 24, 2020

Tamara Dubowitz, Christopher Nelson, Sarah Weilant, Jennifer Sloan, Andy Bogart, Carolyn Miller, Anita Chandra
Research Brief

Research Brief

Guidance for Organizations That Support the Behavioral Health of Post-9/11 Veterans

This brief highlights important treatment, provider, and system factors that organizations that support the behavioral health needs of veterans with co-occurring substance use disorders and mental health disorders should consider.

Jul 22, 2020

Eric R. Pedersen, Kathryn E. Bouskill, Stephanie Brooks Holliday, Jonathan Cantor, Sierra Smucker, Matthew L. Mizel, Lauren Skrabala, Aaron Kofner, Terri Tanielian
Research Brief

Strategies to Improve Treatment for Post-9/11 Veterans with Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders

This brief describes how treatment facilities could improve their care of veterans with co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders and address barriers to care for such veterans.

Jul 22, 2020

Eric R. Pedersen, Kathryn E. Bouskill, Stephanie Brooks Holliday, Jonathan Cantor, Sierra Smucker, Matthew L. Mizel, Lauren Skrabala, Aaron Kofner, Terri Tanielian
Journal Article

Journal Article

Outcome-based Payment Schemes: What Outcomes Do Patients with Cancer Value?

A study exploring the feasibility of introducing OBP for new cancer medicines in the NHS, focusing on the kinds of outcomes that patients and their carers consider most important to refer to in this context.

Jul 22, 2020

Paula Lorgelly, Jack Pollard, Patricia Cubi-Molla, Amanda Cole, Duncan Sim, Jon Sussex
Journal Article

Journal Article

Reasonable and Risk-Based? Replacing NFIP Generally Subsidized Rates with a Means-Tested Subsidy

Our results suggest that the savings associated with replacing subsidies with our proposed means-tested subsidy would be $183 million per year if all households in the study area hold NFIP policies, or a savings of approximately $3800 per policy.

Jul 22, 2020

Benjamin M. Miller, Lloyd Dixon, Noreen Clancy
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Improving Substance Use Care: Addressing Barriers to Expanding Integrated Treatment Options for Post-9/11 Veterans

This report provides guidance and recommendations to support the delivery of quality care for veterans with co-occurring substance use disorders and mental health disorders.

Jul 22, 2020

Eric R. Pedersen, Kathryn E. Bouskill, Stephanie Brooks Holliday, Jonathan Cantor, Sierra Smucker, Matthew L. Mizel, Lauren Skrabala, Aaron Kofner, Terri Tanielian
Report

Report

Career Guidance in Schools: Research with schools and providers of career guidance services in Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

This report examines the provision of career guidance in schools and colleges in the Cambridgeshire and Peterborough region.

Jul 21, 2020

Madeline Nightingale, Eleftheria Iakovidou, Barbara Janta
Journal Article

Journal Article

Substance Use Disparities at the Intersection of Sexual Identity and Race/Ethnicity: Results from the 2015–2018 National Survey on Drug Use and Health

Disparities were most pronounced among racial/ethnic minority LGB women, which may reflect their unique experiences of discrimination at the intersection of multiple minority identities. However, racial/ethnic minority gay and bisexual men were not at elevated risk relative to their White counterparts.

Jul 17, 2020

Megan S. Schuler, Dana M. Prince, Joshua Breslau, Rebecca L. Collins
Journal Article

Journal Article

Practitioner Approaches to Measuring Community Resilience: The Analysis of the Resilience of Communities to Disasters Toolkit

In this article, we present the Analysis of the Resilience of Communities to Disasters (ARC-D) toolkit, a practical toolkit developed by an international aid organization, GOAL, over the course of a decade of practice.

Jul 17, 2020

Aaron Clark-Ginsberg, Bernard McCaul, Isabelle Bremaud, Gabriela Cáceres, Desire Mpanje, Sonny Patel, Ronak B. Patel
Report

Economic Competition in the 21st Century

Taking a wide-ranging look at economic competition and the use of economics as a geopolitical tool, the author explains how countries compete, why this economic competition is relevant to the U.S. armed forces, and what the policy implications are.

Jul 17, 2020

Howard J. Shatz
Dissertation

Dissertation

Three Essays In Health Policy and Economics: Surprise Out-of-Network Medical Bills and Out-of-Network Health Care Provider Payment in the United States

Three essays addressing surprise out-of-network medical bills and out-of-network health care provider payment.

Jul 16, 2020

Erin Lindsey Duffy
Report

Autonomous Road Vehicles and Law Enforcement: Identifying High-Priority Needs for Law Enforcement Interactions With Autonomous Vehicles Within the Next Five Years

Autonomous vehicles promise many benefits, but questions remain about how law enforcement officers will interact with them. A panel of experts identified ways to address this challenge.

Jul 16, 2020

Sean E. Goodison, Jeremy D. Barnum, Michael J. D. Vermeer, Dulani Woods, Tatiana Lloyd-Dotta, Brian A. Jackson

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