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Ph.D. Candidate, Pardee RAND Graduate School, and Assistant Policy Researcher, RAND
Assistant Policy Researcher, RAND; Ph.D. Student, Pardee RAND Graduate School
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Jan 1, 1994
This report presents a simple equilibrium model of the cocaine industry in Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia.
This report documents a computer spreadsheet-based 'systems description' for the cocaine trade that is a combination of database and analytical tool.
This report analyzes the relative cost-effectiveness of various available drug interventions.
This report documents the development of a two-state Markovian model of the demand for cocaine and includes the estimation of incidence, prevalence, cohort retention, and consumption.
Describes how to construct time series for the price of cocaine using data from the Drug Enforcement Administration's System to Retrieve Information from Drug Evidence.
Jan 1, 1993
In this paper the author investigates the relationship between law enforcement and the price and use of cocaine.
This paper presents a simple equilibrium model of the cocaine industry in Peru, Bolivia, and Colombia.
Dissertation
This dissertation presents a dynamic economic model of the cocaine industry and source country drug control policies
Jan 1, 1992
Brief 1992 assessment of cocaine use in the 1980s, including apparent changes in trends and composition of the cocaine-using population, pointing to a possible conclusion that the cocaine epidemic of the eighties was subsiding.