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Socioeconomic Status and Well-Being During COVID-19: A Resource-Based Examination 2020
Longitudinal survey data show that depressive symptoms increased, and life satisfaction decreased, from before to during the COVID-19 pandemic. Those with higher education and higher incomes were most adversely impacted.
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Integration of Well-Being with Resilience and Other Broad Scale Social Change 2020
This book is a combination of scientific papers, case studies from the field, and excerpts from a lively, multidisciplinary discussion which intentionally connects issues of measurement to the imperative for action.
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Changes in Adult Alcohol Use and Consequences During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the US 2020
A national longitudinal survey of 1,540 adults ages 30-80 in 2019 and 2020 shows that people drank more frequently, and for women in particular, more heavily and with more negative consequences, during the initial stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A Mixed-Method Comparison of Physician-Reported Beliefs About and Barriers to Treatment with Medications for Opioid Use Disorder 2020
We conducted a mixed-methods study that involved focus group interviews and an online survey disseminated to a random group of licensed U.S. physicians, which oversampled physicians with a preexisting waiver to prescribe buprenorphine.
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Estimating the Cost of Quality Early Childhood Care and Education in Oklahoma 2020
A federal Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five provided resources for a needs assessment of Oklahoma's system of early childhood care and education (ECCE). As part of the grant activities, RAND researchers collected expenditure data from Oklahoma ECCE providers and developed a cost model tailored for the state. The study estimated the cost of care by child age in center- and home-based settings and identified key ECCE cost drivers.
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The Effects of Job Characteristics on Retirement 2020
We present results from a survey fielded in the RAND American Life Panel. The survey queried older workers about their current,desired, and expected job characteristics, and about how certain characteristics would affect their retirement decisions.
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Tobacco/Nicotine and Marijuana Co-Use Motives in Young Adults: Associations with Substance Use Behaviors One Year Later 2020
We conducted an analysis on 342 young adults with past-year co-administration of tobacco/nicotine and marijuana to determine how emergent classes of 16 co-use motives were associated with use of tobacco/nicotine and marijuana one year later.
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How Would a Better Diet Affect Health and Economic Outcomes in the United States? 2020
This online tool shows the effect that improving diet quality in the United States could have on health and economic outcomes, such as the prevalence of diet-related illness, health care spending, and labor force participation, over a 30-year period. The user can explore the effects of a dietary improvement on several outcomes, across different metrics and population sub-groups.
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Who Helps the Unemployed? Workers' Receipt of Public and Private Transfers 2020
Unemployment increases the probability a worker receives financial assistance from their family, inclusive of all demographic subgroups.
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Moonlighting to the Side Hustle: The Effect of Working an Extra Job on Household Poverty for Households With Less Formal Education 2020
To understand who works multiple jobs and its effect on economic well-being, we used the Survey of Income and Program Participation to estimate the effect of secondary earnings on household poverty.