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Research Briefs

RAND research briefs present policy-oriented summaries of individual published, peer-reviewed documents or of a body of published work.

2020

California Wildfires: Can Insurance Markets Handle the Risk?

Lloyd Dixon, Flavia Tsang, Gary Fitts
Creating a Separate Space Force: Challenges and Opportunities for an Effective, Efficient, Independent Space Service

Michael Spirtas, Yool Kim, Frank Camm, Shirley M. Ross, Debra Knopman, Forrest E. Morgan, Sebastian Joon Bae, M. Scott Bond, John S. Crown, Elaine Simmons
Critical Care Surge Capacity in U.S. Hospitals: Strategies for Responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Mahshid Abir, Christopher Nelson, Edward W. Chan, Hamad Al-Ibrahim, Christina Cutter, Karishma Patel, Andy Bogart
Effects of a Public Option on Health Insurance Costs and Coverage

Jodi L. Liu, Asa Wilks, Sarah A. Nowak, Preethi Rao, Christine Eibner
Ensuring That the Measuring and Improving Student-Centered Learning Toolkit Is Easy to Use and Produces Accurate, Meaningful Results

Julia H. Kaufman, Elizabeth D. Steiner, Jonathan Schweig, Sophie Meyers, Karen Christianson
Estimating the Costs and Benefits of LifeSet

Lynn A. Karoly
Evaluating Public Awareness Campaigns to Promote Military and Veteran Mental Health

Joie D. Acosta, Jennifer L. Cerully, Eunice C. Wong, Elizabeth L. Petrun Sayers, Mikhail Zaydman, Lisa S. Meredith, Ilana Blum, Nupur Nanda, Terri Tanielian, Rachel Ross, et al.
Financial Aid Can Help Low-Income Students Finish Two-Year College Programs

Drew M. Anderson
Four Lessons Learned from Implementing a Social and Emotional Learning Program to Enhance School Safety

Gabriella C. Gonzalez, Jennifer L. Cerully, Elaine Lin Wang, Jonathan Schweig, Ivy Todd, William R. Johnston, Jessica Schnittka
The global economic cost of COVID-19 vaccine nationalism

Marco Hafner, Erez Yerushalmi, Clement Fays, Eliane Dufresne, Christian Van Stolk
Guidance for Organizations That Support the Behavioral Health of Post-9/11 Veterans

Eric R. Pedersen, Kathryn E. Bouskill, Stephanie Brooks Holliday, Jonathan Cantor, Sierra Smucker, Matthew L. Mizel, Lauren Skrabala, Aaron Kofner, Terri Tanielian
How Can Assistant Principals Be Trained as Instructional Leaders? Insights from the PLUS Program

Benjamin K. Master, Elizabeth D. Steiner, Christopher Joseph Doss, Hannah Acheson-Field
How Can Green Infrastructure Help to Manage Rainfall in an Urban Watershed?

Jordan R. Fischbach, Michael T. Wilson, Craig A. Bond, Ajay K. Kochhar, David Catt, Devin Tierney
How can policy and practice support an innovating healthcare system?

Sonja Marjanovic, Marlene Altenhofer, Lucy Hocking, Molly Morgan Jones, Sarah Parks, Ioana Ghiga, Carla Cox, Katerina Galai, Tom Ling
How Can State Financial Aid Best Meet the Needs of Low-Income Students? The Wisconsin Case

Drew M. Anderson
How Can the United States Prepare a Workforce for Advanced Manufacturing Using Robotics?

Megan Andrew, Timothy Marler, Jesse Lastunen, Hannah Acheson-Field, Steven W. Popper
How the U.S. Coast Guard Can Leverage Social Media and Enhanced Cell Phone Data to Improve Emergency Response

Douglas Yeung, Sarah A. Nowak, Sohaela Amiri, Aaron C. Davenport, Emily Hoch, Kelly Klima, Colleen M. McCullough
Improving Behavioral Health Treatment Outcomes for U.S. Army Personnel: Predictors of Treatment Outcomes

Kimberly A. Hepner, Carol P. Roth, Eric R. Pedersen, Sujeong Park, Claude Messan Setodji
The Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching: A Comparison of School Outcomes

Alice Huguet, Deborah J. Holtzman, Abby Robyn, Elizabeth D. Steiner, Ivy Todd, Linda Choi, Matthew D. Baird, Italo A. Gutierrez, Michael S. Garet, Brian M. Stecher, et al.
Investing in the Future of Health Care: A Strategic Assessment of Federally Funded Health Services Research and Primary Care Research

Peter Mendel, Courtney A. Gidengil, Andrada Tomoaia-Cotisel, Sean Mann, Adam J. Rose, Kristin J. Leuschner, Nabeel Shariq Qureshi, Vishnupriya Kareddy, Jessica L. Sousa, Daniel Kim
Los Angeles County Jails Could Divert More Individuals to Community-Based Mental Health Services

Stephanie Brooks Holliday, Nicholas M. Pace, Neil Gowensmith, Ira Packer, Daniel Murrie, Alicia Virani, Bing Han, Sarah B. Hunter
Make the Connection: Findings and Recommendations

Joie D. Acosta, Jennifer L. Cerully, Eunice C. Wong, Elizabeth L. Petrun Sayers, Mikhail Zaydman, Lisa S. Meredith, Ilana Blum, Nupur Nanda, Terri Tanielian, Rachel Ross, et al.
Meeting Europe's 21st Century Security Challenges: Reimagining Conventional Arms Control

Samuel Charap, Alice Lynch, John J. Drennan, Dara Massicot, Giacomo Persi Paoli
Moving improvement forward in UK health and care: An evaluation of the Q Initiative 2016–2020

Lucy Hocking, Jennifer Newbould, Sarah Parkinson, Katherine Stewart, Amelia Harshfield, Tom Ling
Peering into the Crystal Ball: Holistically Assessing the Future of Warfare

Raphael S. Cohen, Nathan Chandler, Shira Efron, Bryan Frederick, Eugeniu Han, Kurt Klein, Forrest E. Morgan, Ashley L. Rhoades, Howard J. Shatz, Yuliya Shokh
Real Warriors Campaign: Findings and Recommendations

Joie D. Acosta, Jennifer L. Cerully, Eunice C. Wong, Elizabeth L. Petrun Sayers, Mikhail Zaydman, Lisa S. Meredith, Ilana Blum, Nupur Nanda, Terri Tanielian, Rachel Ross, et al.
Recovery Month: Findings and Recommendations

Joie D. Acosta, Jennifer L. Cerully, Eunice C. Wong, Elizabeth L. Petrun Sayers, Mikhail Zaydman, Lisa S. Meredith, Ilana Blum, Nupur Nanda, Terri Tanielian, Rachel Ross, et al.
Reducing Child Deaths in Nigeria Through Contingent Cash Transfers to Expectant Mothers

Edward N. Okeke, Isa Sadeeq Abubakar, Zachary Wagner
A Shared Definition of High-Quality Care Can Help Veterans Combat Invisible Wounds

Carrie M. Farmer, Lu Dong
Strategies to Improve Treatment for Post-9/11 Veterans with Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders

Eric R. Pedersen, Kathryn E. Bouskill, Stephanie Brooks Holliday, Jonathan Cantor, Sierra Smucker, Matthew L. Mizel, Lauren Skrabala, Aaron Kofner, Terri Tanielian
Strengthening Privacy Protections in COVID-19 Mobile Phone–Enhanced Surveillance Programs

Benjamin Boudreaux, Matthew A. DeNardo, Sarah W. Denton, Ricardo Sanchez, Katie Feistel, Hardika Dayalani
Supporting Summer Programs: Navigating Federal, State, and Local Program Support Opportunities

Catherine H. Augustine, Lindsey E. Thompson
Supports for Social and Emotional Learning in Schools: Findings from the American Teacher Panel

Laura S. Hamilton, Christopher Joseph Doss
Systemic Risk: It's Not Just in the Financial Sector

Jonathan William Welburn, Aaron Strong, Florentine Eloundou Nekoul, Justin Grana, Krystyna Marcinek, Osonde A. Osoba, Nirabh Koirala, Claude Messan Setodji
A Two-Generation Learning Program Educates and Empowers Parents and Children: An Assessment of Families Forward Learning Center in Pasadena, California

Jill S. Cannon, Jonathan Schweig, Rachel Perera
Understanding skills gaps in the European defence sector

Katerina Galai, Lucia Retter, Julia Muravska, Marta Kepe, Alice Lynch, Anna Knack, Jacopo Bellasio, Antonia Ward, Arya Sofia Meranto, Davide Maistro, et al.
U.S. Versus Chinese Powers of Persuasion: Does the United States or China Have More Influence in the Indo-Pacific Region?

Bonny Lin, Michael S. Chase, Jonah Blank, Cortez A. Cooper III, Derek Grossman, Scott W. Harold, Jennifer D. P. Moroney, Lyle J. Morris, Logan Ma, Paul Orner, et al.
Veterans Crisis Line: Findings and Recommendations

Joie D. Acosta, Jennifer L. Cerully, Eunice C. Wong, Elizabeth L. Petrun Sayers, Mikhail Zaydman, Lisa S. Meredith, Ilana Blum, Nupur Nanda, Terri Tanielian, Rachel Ross, et al.
What Is the Impact of the New York City Community Schools Initiative?

William R. Johnston, John Engberg, Isaac M. Opper, Lisa Sontag-Padilla, Lea Xenakis

2019

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