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Self-Assessment Guide for University Prevention Programs Focused on Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment

This guide provides detailed step-by-step instructions to help civilian universities and colleges assess their own programs to prevent sexual assault and harassment.

Nov 10, 2021

Jack Baker, Amy Kerr, Amanda Meyer, Katelyn Wargel, Paul Flaspohler, Joie D. Acosta, Matthew Chinman, Abraham Wandersman, Beverly Fortson, Andra Tharp
Journal Article

Money and My Mind: Maternal Cash Transfers and Mental Health

This paper documents important mental health spillovers in the context of a program that offered pregnant women modest cash incentives to use pre- and perinatal health care services.

Nov 10, 2021

Edward N. Okeke
Journal Article

Methods for Identifying Health Research Gaps, Needs, and Priorities: A Scoping Review

The purpose of this review is to characterize methods conducted or supported by research funding organizations to identify health research gaps, needs, or priorities.

Nov 10, 2021

Eunice C. Wong, Alicia Ruelaz Maher, Aneesa Motala, Rachel Ross, Goke Akinniranye, Jody Larkin, Susanne Hempel
Journal Article

Working Hard or Hardly Working: Health Worker Effort and Health Outcomes

Effort by health workers in developing countries has been the subject of recent attention, but the implications for health outcomes have remained a matter of conjecture. This paper provides new evidence about the returns to health worker effort.

Nov 10, 2021

Edward N. Okeke
Journal Article

Prior Punishments and Cumulative Disadvantage: How Supervision Status Impacts Prison Sentences

This article explores one way prior punishments may contribute to cumulative disadvantage: through more severe sentencing of those under criminal justice supervision.

Nov 10, 2021

Audrey Hickert, Shawn D. Bushway, David J. Harding, Jeffrey D. Morenoff
Journal Article

A Truth Serum for Your Personal Perspective on Facial Recognition Software in Law Enforcement

The authors suggest that it is important to separate the use of facial recognition for forensics and mass surveillance.

Nov 10, 2021

Cynthia Diane Rudin, Shawn D. Bushway
Report

Summer for All: Building Coordinated Networks to Promote Access to Quality Summer Learning and Enrichment Opportunities Across a Community

In this eighth report in RAND's Summer Learning Series, the authors chronicle early efforts in four communities to create coordinated approaches to summer programming, noting their challenges, enablers, and early outcomes.

Nov 10, 2021

Catherine H. Augustine, Jennifer Sloan McCombs, Garrett Baker
Report

Navigating a Big Transition: Military Service Members' Earnings and Employment After Active-Duty Service

The authors examined the relationship among enlisted service members' military occupations, personal characteristics, and civilian employment outcomes over the first three years after they separated from active duty.

Nov 10, 2021

Charles A. Goldman, Jeremy Boback, Robert Bozick, Drew M. Anderson
Dissertation

#KeepingItReal: Improving Social Media Users' Resistance to False Information during Elections

Addresses the issue of too much false information shared on social media by users during U.S. election seasons.

Nov 9, 2021

Hilary Reininger
Report

European Strategic Autonomy in Defence: Transatlantic visions and implications for NATO, US and EU relations

This study examines the meaning of European strategic autonomy in defence and its implications for the U.S., NATO and US-EU relations using a scenario methodology and transatlantic expert consultation.

Nov 9, 2021

Lucia Retter, Stephanie Pezard, Stephen J. Flanagan, Gene Germanovich, Sarah Grand-Clement, Pauline Paillé
Journal Article

Life in the Slow Lane: Unintended Consequences of Public Transit in Jakarta

We study how TransJakarta, one of the worlds largest BRT systems, impacted commuting outcomes in Jakarta, Indonesia from 2002 to 2010.

Nov 9, 2021

Arya Gaduh, Tadeja Gracner, Alexander D. Rothenberg
Journal Article

The Cost of Stress to UK Employers and Employees

This paper uses data from the Britain's Healthiest Workplaces survey to highlight the costs associated with stress and impaired wellbeing in the workplace and their implication for productivity and, by extension, the economic health of society.

Nov 9, 2021

Christian Van Stolk
Journal Article

The Relationship Between Employee Engagement and Organisational Outcomes in the English National Health Service: An Analysis of Employee and Employer Data in 28 Healthcare Organisations

This analysis of survey data in 28 healthcare organisations builds an understanding of what drives employee engagement and how it impacts organisations.

Nov 9, 2021

Christian Van Stolk, Marco Hafner
Report

Seeking Balance in the Provision of Technical Assistance: Insights from the National Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety

The authors examine the first three years of operation for the Center to Improve Social and Emotional Learning and School Safety (CISELSS) and offer insights that might help guide efforts to continuously improve CISELSS's provision of supports.

Nov 9, 2021

Stephani L. Wrabel, Susan Bush-Mecenas, Ashley Woo
Report

The Big Lift Evaluation: Research Findings Five Years In

The authors examine participation rates, kindergarten readiness, and third-grade outcomes of children eligible to participate in The Big Lift™, a preschool–third-grade initiative to designed to boost reading proficiency.

Nov 9, 2021

Celia J. Gomez, Jill S. Cannon, Michelle Bongard
Report

Mapping Cross-Border Business Networks in the Asia-Pacific Region

In this first-ever regional assessment of firm-level governance networks in East and Southeast Asia, the author describes the structure of these interfirm networks and documents their dramatic growth and integration between 2006 and 2020.

Nov 9, 2021

Matthew Sargent
Report

Access to Health Care Among TRICARE-Covered Children

Analyses of survey data allow a comparison between children with TRICARE and other types of insurance, as well as between children who have changed addresses more and less frequently and children with special health care needs and those without.

Nov 8, 2021

Joachim O. Hero, Courtney A. Gidengil, Nabeel Qureshi, Terri Tanielian, Carrie M. Farmer
Report

Methods for Identifying Health Research Gaps, Needs, and Priorities: A Scoping Review

This scoping review provides a roadmap of methods used for identifying health research gaps, establishing research needs, and determining research priorities.

Nov 8, 2021

Eunice C. Wong, Alicia Ruelaz Maher, Aneesa Motala, Rachel Ross, Marjorie Danz, Goke Akinniranye, Jody Larkin, Susanne Hempel
Report

Analysis of Russian Irregular Threats

The authors of this report describe strategic global trends related to Russian global influence and behavior and provide an overview and assessment of hostile activities that Russia has undertaken in the face of these trends.

Nov 8, 2021

Sean M. Zeigler, Dara Massicot, Elina Treyger, Naoko Aoki, Chandler Sachs, Stephen Watts
Report

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Public Communication Campaigns and Their Implications for Strategic Competition with Russia

The authors examine evidence on the effectiveness of campaigns to influence public opinion in target populations -- sometimes referred to as "information warfare" -- in the context of strategic competition between the United States and Russia.

Nov 8, 2021

Caitlin McCulloch, Stephen Watts

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