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Assistant Policy Researcher, RAND; Ph.D. Candidate, Pardee RAND Graduate School
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News Release
Sep 9, 2024
In response to Western economic pressure, Russia has turned to gold to support the economy, evade sanctions, and bolster its international trade.
Project
RAND Europe researchers examined how Russia has been using gold since its invasion of Ukraine, how its gold sector and gold producers currently operate, and how Russia will generate gold revenues and develop its international gold trade.
Report
This report examines how Russia has been using gold since its invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and how it is seeking to generate revenues from gold and develop its international gold trade.
Jul 23, 2024
The authors explore emerging and understudied threats to the financial system, focusing on risks from social media, advances in artificial intelligence, and from the changing role of economic statecraft in geopolitics.
Jul 15, 2024
In this report, the authors examine the implementation of Nevada's financial literacy requirements in grades three through 12 using data from a teacher survey, focus groups, interviews, and financial literacy programs.
Research Brief
This research brief presents findings from a mixed-methods study of the implementation of Nevada’s financial literacy requirements in grades three through 12 using data from a teacher survey, focus groups, interviews, and financial literacy programs.
Jul 1, 2024
This report documents an analysis, conducted in response to the California Public Banking Option Act, of the feasibility of a program aimed at facilitating basic financial transactions for unbanked and underbanked Californians.
Journal Article
This article examines whether the SEC's authority to move cases into administrative court has led to a home-court advantage due to administrative law judges' relative lack of formal independence.
Commentary
Jun 27, 2024
Despite the emergence of financial feminism and greater policy attention paid to this topic, women who face the greatest challenges in securing financial independence may still face barriers to improving their financial literacy. Women would benefit from free, diverse, and accessible forms of financial education.
Jun 11, 2024
In this report, the authors analyze infrastructure threats and hazards and examine vectors by which an adversary might conduct attacks. They also look at other impacts resulting from infrastructure age and maintenance and from weather challenges.
Tool
May 22, 2024
This tool is a cleaned, easy-to-use, and streamlined data product containing information from the Health and Retirement Study, a longitudinal household survey that facilitates research into different aspects of population aging in the United States.
Brochure
May 17, 2024
The cover story explores how health care providers in low- and middle-income countries can effectively prevent hundreds of thousands of diarrhea-related childhood deaths a year. In The Q&A, Alex Stark discusses why U.S. policy has failed in Yemen.
