Truth Decay, the diminishing role of facts in American public life, isn't a problem that any one person can fix. But there are simple steps that individuals can take to help counter it.
How can technology help ease the transition from jails or prisons back into the community—and ensure better outcomes for individuals who have been incarcerated?
The goal of this chapter is to provide comparable evidence, based on microeconomic data sources, regarding the lifetimes savings profiles of households in the UK.
Two especially significant effects on an elderly couple's financial situation and on their spending and planning decisions: the illness of one of the partners and the types of benefits available to the partner who survives the other's death.
This document describes quality-of-life program issues discussed at a meeting of senior members of the Department of Defense and the National Defense Research Institute. Topics included housing, equity, and the effect of changes in the workplace.
For patients hospitalized with serious illnesses, we identified factors associated with a stated preference to forgo cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), examined physician-patient communication about these issues, and determined the relationship of patients' preferences to intensity of care and survival.
This research examines the recent performance of the Russian banking system in terms of the historical and institutional legacy of the old Soviet regime, and proposes some basic reforms to the current system.
This paper is the product of discussion initiated to explore issues in the move from work to retirement among the members of a task force composed of retired employees of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP) and DWP employees eligible ...
This report documents a study of Air Force financial management options and management implications of the use of outlay controls in the U.S. government budget.
A study of consumer knowledgeability about medical care services and its effect on the role consumers might play in decisions affecting resource allocation, especially whether competition and/or cost-sharing strategies should be pursued or whether...
Description of a planning cost model for estimating the comparable replication cost of an educational program for use in evaluating alternative programs and planning future programs. The conceptual and methodological basis of cost analysis is explor...
A panel paper from the UCLA/Informatics Symposium, "Expanding Use of Computers in the 70s." The banking and securities industry will continue to expand rapidly, due not only to the larger number of customers but to the increased number of transactio...
Methods of cost-effectiveness analysis can assist the planner in evaluating educational programs. This concept should be broadened to include "resource-effectiveness analysis," which can be divided into two study areas: resource analysis and analysi...
A description of COMBAT, the Cost Oriented Model Built to Analyze Tradeoffs, that enables the analyst to participate, through Rand's time-shared computer system JOSS, in a war-gaming or planning exercise and to supply instant estimates of the cost of...
A description of the PPB system and its contributions to the planning process. First, it establishes and makes explicit the relationships, or linkages, among the organization's goals, programs, and activities and their resource implications and finan...
An explanation of systems analysis for an audience of accountants. The essence of systems analysis is to construct a model of the situation (just as a trial balance is a model of the firm's financial transactions), select a criterion, and then compar...
An orientation to systems cost analysis for civil service employees involved in the implementation and operation of the Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System in nondefense agencies.
A description of a new force structure cost analysis model being developed to advance the concept of force structure analysis and to facilitate its use in Air Force planning studies.
A discussion of the significant features involved in systems cost analysis. The paper, primarily directed to users of cost estimates, describes the methodology of the field at length, employing illustrations from military planning problems.
