Published Research

Brochure

Consolidated Financial Statements: Fiscal Years Ended September 30, 2022 and 2021

These are the RAND Corporation's financial statements for the fiscal years ended September 30, 2022 and 2021.

Journal Article

Prior Authorization Restrictions on Medications for Opioid Use Disorder: Trends in State Laws from 2005 to 2019

Researchers conducted a review of U.S. regulations and statutes between 2005 and 2019 related to medications for opioid use disorder to identify the frequency and types of prior authorization prohibitions in state laws.

Barbara Andraka-Christou, Olivia Golan, Rachel Totaram, Maggie Ohama, Brendan Saloner, Adam J Gordon, Bradley D. Stein

Dissertation

Sustaining Global Leadership

Studies the strategic behavior of leading historical powers that faced rising challengers abroad and fiscal constraints at home and concludes with takeaways from case studies and discusses potential implications for American public policy.

Harun Dogo

Journal Article

Do Early Care and Education Programs Improve When Enrolled in Quality Rating and Improvement Systems? Longitudinal Evidence from One System

We investigated whether providers that participated in a county-level QRIS saw increases to their global quality (tier) rating, domain-specific quality ratings, and scores on an observation measure of classroom quality.

Celia J. Gomez, Anamarie A. Whitaker, Jill S. Cannon

Journal Article

State Approaches to Tackling the Opioid Crisis Through the Health Care System

In this paper, policy experts discuss three broad strategies states are taking, through a variety of policy levers, to enhance the quality of and access to treatment for opioid use disorder.

Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Bradley D. Stein

Journal Article

An Exploratory Analysis of Differential Prescribing of High-Risk Opioids by Insurance Type Among Patients Seen by the Same Clinician

The objective of this paper is to explore how high-risk opioid analgesic prescribing varies by payer type among patients seeing the same prescriber and identify clinician characteristics associated with variable prescribing.

Lucy B. Schulson, Andrew W. Dick, Yaou Flora Sheng, Bradley D. Stein

Journal Article

Survey: Understanding How U.S. Public Schools Approach School Discipline

How prevalent do zero-tolerance policies remain today? To find out, researchers surveyed 1,080 public school principals across the U.S.

Rachel Perera, Melissa Kay Diliberti

Report

Evaluation of Mental Health First Aid in New York City

More than 155,000 New Yorkers were trained in Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) between 2016 and 2020. The authors evaluated this citywide dissemination of MHFA and needs for future training.

Eunice C. Wong, Michael Stephen Dunbar, Daniel Siconolfi, Anthony Rodriguez, Chester Jean, Vanessa N. Torres, Rosemary Li, Michele Abbott, Ingrid Estrada-Darley, Lu Dong, Rebecca Weir

Report

Comparison of Public and Private Sector Cybersecurity and IT Workforces

The authors develop a common taxonomy based on work roles, key tasks, and responsibilities to examine the proportion of cybersecurity and information technology work roles, workers' salaries, and demand across private and public sectors.

Sasha Romanosky, Karen Schwindt, Ryan Johnson

Research Brief

Large-Scale Training in Mental Health First Aid: An Evaluation of New York City's 2016–2020 Efforts

In an evaluation of a city-wide effort to train New Yorkers in Mental Health First Aid, RAND researchers found that the majority of participants had used their skills to help friends, family, neighbors, and coworkers in the past six months.

Eunice C. Wong, Michael Stephen Dunbar, Daniel Siconolfi, Anthony Rodriguez, Chester Jean, Vanessa N. Torres, Rosemary Li, Michele Abbott, Ingrid Estrada-Darley, Lu Dong, Rebecca Weir

Report

Evaluation of Delaware's Opportunity Funding and Student Success Block Grant Programs: Third and Final Year

The authors evaluated two Delaware programs for local education agencies with students experiencing poverty and multilingual learners during the 2019–2020 to 2021–2022 school years: Opportunity Funding and the Student Success Block Grant program.

Sy Doan, John Engberg, Sam Morales, Heather L. Schwartz, Lynn A. Karoly

Report

Flexible Opportunity Funding Investments in Delaware: Lessons from District Leaders

The authors drew on surveys of Delaware local education agencies that received Opportunity Funding and describe the investments they made to improve the academic achievement of multilingual learners and students experiencing poverty.

Rebecca Ann Lawrence, Elizabeth D. Steiner, Pierrce Holmes, Heather L. Schwartz, Sy Doan

Journal Article

Biliteracy Seals in a Large Urban District in New Mexico: Who Earns Them and How Do They Impact College Outcomes?

This study examined the college readiness of students who earned different types of seals, the number of students who met some requirements for a seal but did not earn one, and the effect of earning a seal on college outcomes.

Kata Mihaly, Brenda Arellano, Shannon Prier

Report

Characterizing the Performance of Uncrewed Aircraft Systems

Analysts leveraged available data on performance of uncrewed aircraft system platforms to develop an approach to characterizing spray coverage as a function of payload, speed, endurance, and delivery and presenting performance parameters of interest.

Bradley Wilson, Shane Tierney, Rachel M. Burns

Journal Article

Trends in US Ambulatory Care Patterns During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2019–2021

In this study, there was an increase in the return to expected rates of use of ambulatory care services between March 2020 and February 2021. This increase was lower for patients with Medicaid or Medicaid-Medicare dual eligibility.

John N. Mafi, Melody Craff, Sitaram Vangala, Thomas Pu, Dale Skinner, Cyrus Tabatabai-Yazdi, Anikia Nelson, Rachel O. Reid, Denis Agniel, Chi-Hong Tseng, Catherine A. Sarkisian, Cheryl L. Damberg, Katherine L. Kahn

Journal Article

Modifying Text Messages from a Faith-Based Physical Activity Intervention with Latino Adults in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

The purpose of this article is to describe how we developed and implemented a physical activity text messaging component within a faith-based intervention.

Margaret D. Whitley, Lilian Perez, Gabriela Castro, Anne Larson, Kathryn Pitkin Derose

Report

A New Framework and Logic Model for Using Live, Virtual, and Constructive Training in the United States Air Force

To help improve training and readiness in the U.S. Air Force, the authors describe a framework for aligning live, virtual, and constructive capabilities with training needs on collective, complex, cognitive tasks for aircrews.

Timothy Marler, Susan G. Straus, Mark Toukan, Ajay K. Kochhar, Monica Rico, Christine Kistler LaCoste, Matt Strawn, Brian P. Donnelly

Report

A Cost Estimating Framework for U.S. Marine Corps Joint Cyber Weapons

To help improve leadership decisionmaking related to the costs of offensive cyber operations acquisition, the authors developed a life-cycle cost-estimating framework for the U.S. Marine Corps and conducted exploratory modeling and simulation.

Bradley Wilson, Thomas Goughnour, Megan McKernan, Andrew Karode, Devin Tierney, Mark V. Arena, Michael J. D. Vermeer, Hansell Perez, Alexis Levedahl

Report

How Can DoD Compare Damage Costs Against Resilience Investment Costs for Climate-Driven Natural Hazards? Overview of an Analytic Approach, Its Advantages, and Its Limitations

This report assesses methods to compare the damage costs from climate change-related extreme weather events against the costs of investing in U.S. Department of Defense installation resilience.

Anu Narayanan, Patrick Mills, Tobias Sytsma, Kelly Klima, Rahim Ali