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National Evaluation of Safe Start Promising Approaches: Assessing Program Outcomes

Shares the results of Safe Start Promising Approaches, a community-based initiative that implemented and evaluated promising and evidence-based programs to prevent and reduce the impact of children's exposure to violence in 15 U.S. program sites.

Aug 25, 2011
News Release

News Release

Links Between Asbestos Bankruptcy Trusts, Tort Cases Examined

Asbestos bankruptcy trusts—created to compensate people injured by the mineral—may be influencing tort cases. The current way that the trusts and the tort cases are linked together may result in payments that are not consistent with the basic principles of the tort liability system.

Aug 18, 2011
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Report

Links Between Asbestos Bankruptcy Trusts, Tort Cases Examined

Asbestos bankruptcy trusts—created to compensate people injured by the mineral—may be influencing tort cases. The current way that the trusts and the tort cases are linked together may result in payments that are not consistent with the basic principles of the tort liability system.

Aug 18, 2011
Research Brief

Research Brief

Bankruptcy Trusts, Asbestos Compensation, and the Courts

People with asbestos injuries are increasingly receiving compensation from trusts set up by bankrupt asbestos defendants. This brief documents how courts handling these cases consider trust payments when determining compensation.

Aug 18, 2011
Journal Article

Journal Article

Travel Using Managed Lanes: An Application of a Stated Choice Model for Houston, Texas

The mean value of travel time savings obtained from a random parameters logit model estimated using the respondents who received the D-efficient design survey was closer to what is typically found in the literature.

Jul 31, 2011
Research Brief

High Rates of Household Breakups Occurred Following Hurricane Katrina

The composition of households in New Orleans made the city's families more vulnerable to breakup during the chaos that followed Hurricane Katrina. Two-thirds of the city's households at that time saw at least one family member move away, an unusually high number even given the tremendous destruction of the hurricane.

Jun 7, 2011
News Release

News Release

High Rates of Household Breakups Occurred Following Hurricane Katrina

The composition of households in New Orleans made the city's families more vulnerable to breakup during the chaos that followed Hurricane Katrina.

May 23, 2011
Report

Report

First Year Evaluation of the Caruth Police Institute at Dallas

The Caruth Police Institute (CPI) provides officer training and serves as the Dallas Police Department's research and problem-solving arm. This report examines the extent to which CPI is meeting its goals, along with obstacles and responses.

May 2, 2011
News Release

News Release

How National Health Reform Will Affect a Variety of States

A series of new reports by the RAND Corporation outlines the impact that national health care reform will have on individual states, estimating the increased costs and coverage that are expected in five diverse states once reform is fully implemented in 2016.

Apr 5, 2011
News Release

News Release

Health Reform Will Add Coverage for 5 Million in Texas; State Health Spending to Grow by 10 Percent

National health care reform will help 5 million Texas residents obtain health insurance and increase health care spending by state government by about 10 percent when it is fully implemented in 2016.

Apr 5, 2011
Research Brief

Research Brief

How Will Health Care Reform Affect Costs and Coverage? Examples from Five States

Projects how the coverage-related provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will affect health insurance coverage and state government spending on health care in five states.

Apr 1, 2011
Report

Report

The Impact of the Coverage-Related Provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on Insurance Coverage and State Health Care Expenditures in Texas: An Analysis from RAND COMPARE

Projects how the coverage-related provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will affect health insurance coverage and state government spending on health care in Texas through 2020.

Apr 1, 2011
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Partners in Preparedness: How Governments Can Leverage the Strengths of NGOs in Disaster Preparedness, Response, and Recovery

In this March 2011 Congressional Briefing, behavioral scientist Joie Acosta shares action plans and policy recommendations that emerged from a community conference held on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. Distinguished panelists include Admiral Thad Allen, now a senior fellow at the RAND Corporation, and Ann Williamson, President and CEO of the Louisiana Association of Nonprofit Organizations.

Mar 14, 2011
Report

Engaging Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) in Disaster Response and Recovery

NGOs are instrumental in communities' resilience to natural and man-made disasters, but the plans and processes for their involvement are not well-defined. RAND-convened sessions at the 2010 LANO conference identified challenges to engaging NGOs and recommendations for addressing these challenges.

Mar 14, 2011
Report

Building Community Resilience to Disasters

Communities can build resilience to disasters through efforts such as joint planning of government and non-governmental organizations and the development of community networks.

Feb 22, 2011
Journal Article

Journal Article

Positive Income Shocks and Accidental Deaths Among Cherokee Indians: A Natural Experiment

This study of a Cherokee Indian population in North Carolina found that sudden increases in income were associated with short-term increases in risk-taking behavior and higher rates of accidental death.

Dec 31, 2010
Journal Article

Journal Article

The Central Office in a Decentralized System

As the charter school movement has come to scale within the United States, it poses new questions about how to govern public education.

Nov 30, 2010
Journal Article

Journal Article

Association Between Physician Specialty and Uptake of New Medical Technologies: HPV Tests in Florida Medicaid

Uptake of new cervical cancer screening protocols can occur quickly among traditionally underserved groups and may be aided by early adoption by specialists.

Oct 31, 2010
News Release

News Release

Residential Wind, Flood Insurance Markets Still Face Serious Problems 5 Years After Hurricane Katrina

Five years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf Coast, neither the federal government nor the private sector is any closer to developing effective solutions to the problems facing flood and windstorm insurance.

Oct 20, 2010
Research Brief

Research Brief

Call for Reform in the Residential Insurance Market after Hurricane Katrina

In light of what occurred after Katrina and the other 2004-2005 hurricanes, the authors propose goals for an effective Gulf Coast residential insurance market and highlight policy reforms that warrant consideration for achieving those goals.

Oct 8, 2010

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