Children, Families, and Communities

RAND research addresses child health and how families and neighborhoods affect child well-being. Other family-focused research covers topics such as immigration, caregiving, and household finances. Through studies on families as well as community resilience, RAND develops solutions to public policy challenges to help make communities throughout the world safer and more secure, healthier and more prosperous.

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Jan 1, 1968

Temporary Villages for Refugees: Costs, Problems and Opportunities

An analysis of the costs and planning and operating requirements for establishing temporary villages for South Vietnamese refugees while their home villages are being secured for GVN control.
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Jan 1, 1968

An Economic Model of Family Planning and Fertility.

A description of an economic model of family planning and its application to explain differences among municipalities and over time in birth rates in Puerto Rico. Beginning with the preferences of parents for children, the model seeks the determinan...
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Jan 1, 1967

Consumption Cooperation in Rural Areas in the USSR: A Comment

A comment on the question of price discrimination against the peasant consumer in the USSR cooperatives. The rural price differential of 2.8 percent in the late 1950s, largely warranted by higher distribution costs, was eliminated between 1960 and 1...
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Jan 1, 1967

Inequality and Insurgency: A Statistical Study of South Vietnam

A statistical analysis of the relationship between land distribution and insurgency in South Vietnam.
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Jan 1, 1967

A Family Planning Hypothesis: Some Empirical Evidence from Puerto Rico

An analysis of the hypothesis that the frequency of births in a population can be understood in terms of three factors that influence the desire for births: (1) a family size goal that is determined by characteristics of the environment; ...
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Jan 1, 1967

The Possibility of a Social Welfare Function: Comment

No stable outcome normally exists with vote trading; the author points out flaws in James S. Coleman's social welfare function model.
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Jan 1, 1966

Land Concentration and Income Distribution in Several Latin American Countries

A discussion of land tenure, rural economic, and social conditions in seven countries in Latin America. Aspects of the distribution of the data (based on studies of the Inter-American Committee for Agricultural Development) are examined: (1) land, (...
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Jan 1, 1966

Small company strategy in minority group employment

Suggested personnel policies for small companies recruiting and hiring members of minority groups. Small companies can capitalize on their size by emphasizing more personal and informal human relationships in their recruiting activity. They can upg...
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Jan 1, 1966

The Postattack Population of the United States

An analysis of the demographic consequences of a nuclear attack on the United States in terms of size of the postattack population; its rate of growth in subsequent decades; its composition by age, sex, and color; and postattack patterns ...
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Apr 1, 1965

Economic Growth and Poverty

A discussion of economic growth as it relates to problems of poverty and their resolution. The factors promoting economic growth in the United States, adjustments required, and prospects for the future are covered.
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Mar 1, 1965

Reconnaissance for the War on Poverty

A discussion of factors for consideration in planning the war on poverty and suggestions for further research. Labor market policies, discrimination, education and training, and their relationship to poverty levels are discussed briefly.
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Jan 1, 1965

Evolution of a Vietnamese Village — Part I: The Present, After Eight Months of Pacification

Part of a 1965 study of the evolution of a rural Vietnamese village as it passes from insurgent control through pacification to government control.

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Temporary Villages for Refugees: Costs, Problems and Opportunities

An Economic Model of Family Planning and Fertility.

Consumption Cooperation in Rural Areas in the USSR: A Comment

Inequality and Insurgency: A Statistical Study of South Vietnam

A Family Planning Hypothesis: Some Empirical Evidence from Puerto Rico

The Possibility of a Social Welfare Function: Comment

Land Concentration and Income Distribution in Several Latin American Countries

Small company strategy in minority group employment

The Postattack Population of the United States

Economic Growth and Poverty

Reconnaissance for the War on Poverty

Evolution of a Vietnamese Village — Part I: The Present, After Eight Months of Pacification

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Temporary Villages for Refugees: Costs, Problems and Opportunities

An Economic Model of Family Planning and Fertility.

Consumption Cooperation in Rural Areas in the USSR: A Comment

Inequality and Insurgency: A Statistical Study of South Vietnam

A Family Planning Hypothesis: Some Empirical Evidence from Puerto Rico

The Possibility of a Social Welfare Function: Comment

Land Concentration and Income Distribution in Several Latin American Countries

Small company strategy in minority group employment

The Postattack Population of the United States

Economic Growth and Poverty

Reconnaissance for the War on Poverty

Evolution of a Vietnamese Village — Part I: The Present, After Eight Months of Pacification

Oops! An unexpected error has occurred.