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RAND research briefs present policy-oriented summaries of individual published, peer-reviewed documents or of a body of published work.

2008

Achievement and Attainment in Chicago Charter Schools: A Summary

Kevin Booker, Brian Gill, Ron Zimmer, Tim R. Sass

Aircraft Carrier Maintenance Cycles and Their Effects

Roland J. Yardley, James G. Kallimani, John F. Schank, Clifford A. Grammich

Conducting Counterinsurgency Operations: Lessons from Iraq (2003-2006)

Bruce R. Pirnie, Edward O'Connell

Constrained Choice: Why Are Some Women and Men Able To Create and Maintain Healthy Lifestyles, While Others Are Not?

Chloe E. Bird, Patricia P. Rieker

Countering Insurgency in the Muslim World: Rethinking U.S. Priorities and Capabilities

David C. Gompert, John Gordon, IV, Adam Grissom, David R. Frelinger, Seth G. Jones, Martin C. Libicki, Edward O'Connell, Brooke K. Stearns, Robert E. Hunter

Delivery of Genomic Medicine for Common Chronic Adult Diseases

Maren T. Scheuner, Pauline Sieverding, Paul G. Shekelle

Digital preservation: The uncertain future of saving the past

Stijn Hoorens, Jeff Rothenberg

Do NYPD's Pedestrian Stop Data Indicate Racial Bias?

Greg Ridgeway

Evaluating Alternatives for Renewing TRIA in an Uncertain World

Lloyd Dixon, Robert J. Lempert, Tom LaTourrette, Robert T. Reville

Evaluating the BK 21 Program

Somi Seong, Steven W. Popper, Charles A. Goldman, David K. Evans, Clifford A. Grammich

Evaluating the Spirituality for Kids After-School Program

Nicole Maestas, Sarah Gaillot

Getting the Most Out of Littoral Combat Ships

Brien Alkire, John Birkler, Lisa Dolan, James Dryden, Bryce Mason, Gordon T. Lee, John F. Schank, Michael Hayes

How to leave an Olympic Legacy: Using the past and the present to deliver the future

Lindsay Clutterbuck, Edward Nason, Lynne Saylor, Ruth Levitt, Michael Hallsworth, Lisa Klautzer, Lila Rabinovich, Samir Puri, Greg Hannah, Aruna Sivakumar, Flavia Tsang, Peter Burge, Cameron Munro

Identifying Priorities for Post-Secondary Education in Qatar (Arabic version)

Cathleen Stasz, Eric R. Eide, Francisco Martorell, Louay Constant, Charles A. Goldman, Joy S. Moini, Vazha Nadareishvili, Hanine Salem

Identifying and Reducing Climate-Change Vulnerabilities in Water-Management Plans

David G. Groves, Debra Knopman, Robert J. Lempert, Sandra H. Berry, Lynne Wainfan

Immigrants and Health Care: A Complex Picture

Kathryn Pitkin Derose, Jose J. Escarce, Nicole Lurie

Improving Strategic Planning at the Department of Defense

Paul K. Davis, Russell D. Shaver, Justin Beck

Improving the Quality of Health Care for Older Adults

Joshua Chodosh, David Solomon, Carol P. Roth, John T. Chang, Catherine MacLean, Bruce Ferrell, Paul G. Shekelle, Neil S. Wenger, David A. Ganz, Caren Kamberg, Takahiro Higashi, Lillian Min, David Reuben, Roy Young, Debra Saliba, John Schnelle, Eric L. Knight, Jerry Avorn, Laurence Rubenstein, N. Gnanadesigan, John L. Adams, Rick L. Smith, Constance Fung, Martin O. Roland, Elizabeth A. McGlynn, David Reeves, Steven M. Asch, Eve A. Kerr, Richard K. Besdine, Alpesh Amin, Dan G. Blazer, Terry Fulmer, Mark Grunwald, William J. Hall, Paul R. Katz, Dalane W. Kitzman, Rosanne M. Leipzig, D. S. Zingmond, K. H. Wilber, Patricia A. Ganz, Harvey Cohen, Ronnie A. Rosenthal

Investment Advisers and Broker-Dealers

Angela A. Hung, Noreen Clancy, Jeff Dominitz, Eric Talley, Claude Berrebi, Farrukh Suvankulov

Invisible Wounds: Mental Health and Cognitive Care Needs of America's Returning Veterans

Terri Tanielian, Lisa H. Jaycox, Terry L. Schell, Grant N. Marshall, M. Audrey Burnam, Christine Eibner, Benjamin R. Karney, Lisa S. Meredith, Jeanne S. Ringel, Mary E. Vaiana

Is the Economic Burden of Providing Health Insurance Greater for Small Firms Than for Large Firms?

Christine Eibner

Modeling the Health and Medical Care Spending of the Future Elderly

Dana P. Goldman, David M. Cutler, Paul G. Shekelle, Jay Bhattacharya, Baoping Shang, Geoffrey F. Joyce, Michael Hurd, Dawn Matsui, Sydne Newberry, Constantijn (Stan) Panis, Michael W. Rich, Catherine K. Su, Emmett B. Keeler, Darius N. Lakdawalla, Matthew E. Chernew, Feng Pan, Eduardo Ortiz, Robert H. Brook, A. M. Garber, Shannon Rhodes

New Approaches to Planning, Executing, and Assessing Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Operations

Sherrill Lingel, Carl Rhodes, Amado Cordova, Jeff Hagen, Joel Kvitky, Lance Menthe

Organizing for Quality: Inside the ''Black Box'' of Health Care Improvement in Europe and the United States

Paul Bate, Peter Mendel, Glenn Robert

Remuneration and its motivation of UK military personnel

Hans Pung, Samir Puri, Tom Ling, Michael Hallsworth, Laurence Smallman

Teens Who Work Are More Likely to Smoke

Rajeev Ramchand, Nicholas S. Ialongo, Howard D. Chilcoat

Title I School Choice and Supplemental Educational Services Under No Child Left Behind: Progress Toward Implementation

Brian Gill, Jennifer Sloan McCombs, Scott Naftel, Karen E. Ross, Mengli Song, Jennifer Harmon, Georges Vernez, Beatrice Birman, Michael Garet, Jennifer O'Day

What Does Economics Tell Us About Early Childhood Policy?

M. Rebecca Kilburn, Lynn A. Karoly

Why People Overeat: Rethinking the Causes of Obesity

Deborah Cohen, Thomas Farley

Workers' Compensation in Pennsylvania: How is the System Performing? How Should It Be Reformed?

Michael D. Greenberg, Amelia M. Haviland

2007

Accountability Under No Child Left Behind: Progress Toward Implementation

Kerstin Carlson Le Floch, Jose Felipe Martinez, Jennifer O'Day, Brian M. Stecher, James Taylor, Andrea Cook, Georges Vernez, Beatrice Birman, Michael Garet

America's Security Challenges Require a New Division of Labor Among the Armed Forces

Andrew R. Hoehn, Adam Grissom, David Ochmanek, David A. Shlapak, Alan J. Vick

Anatomy of an Insurance Class Action

Nicholas M. Pace, Stephen J. Carroll, Ingo Vogelsang, Laura Zakaras

Applying Madison Avenue Principles and Recent Operational Experience to Counterinsurgency and Stability Operations

Todd C. Helmus, Christopher Paul, Russell W. Glenn

As Enemies Put Innocents at Risk, U.S. Military Must Continue Efforts to Minimize Civilian Deaths and Be Positioned to Better Inform the Public When Casualties Do Occur

Eric V. Larson, Bogdan Savych

Assessing Progress in Rebuilding the Housing Market in Mississippi in the Wake of Katrina

Kevin F. McCarthy, Mark Hanson

Behavioral Health Parity: Consequences for Federal Employee Health Plans

M. Susan Ridgely, Howard H. Goldman, M. Audrey Burnam, Colleen L. Barry, Kevin D. Hennessy, Richard G. Frank, Haiden A. Huskamp, Sharon-Lise T. Normand, Alexander Young, Vanessa Azzone, Alisa B. Busch, Susan T. Azrin, Garrett Moran, Carolyn Lichtenstein, Margaret Blasinsky

Benefits and Barriers: Using and Sharing Geospatial Information in the Department of Defense

Beth E. Lachman, Peter Schirmer, David R. Frelinger, Victoria A. Greenfield, Michael S. Tseng, Tiffany Nichols

Better Coordination Is Needed to Manage the Enlisted Force in the U.S. Air Force

Michael Schiefer, Albert A. Robbert, Lionel A. Galway, Richard E. Stanton, Christine San

Bioterrorism with Zoonotic Disease: Public Health Preparedness Lessons from a Multiagency Exercise

Brian A. Jackson, James W. Buehler, Dana Cole, Susan Cookson, David J. Dausey, Lauren Honess-Morreale, Susan Lance, Roger C. Molander, Patrick O'Neal, Nicole Lurie

Can Internet TV have frontiers?: RAND Europe informs the European Commission's TVWF impact assessment

Can Publicly Available Information Be Used in Planning Terrorist Attacks?

Eric Landree, Christopher Paul, Beth Grill, Aruna Balakrishnan, Bradley Wilson, Martin C. Libicki

Certain Competencies May Help Offset Lack of Expertise in Senior Air Force Jobs

Lynn M. Scott, Steve Drezner, Rachel Rue, Jesse Reyes

China Could Use "Antiaccess" Strategies to Counter U.S. Military Superiority

Roger Cliff, Mark Burles, Michael S. Chase, Derek Eaton, Kevin L. Pollpeter

Consumer-Directed Health Care: Early Evidence Shows Lower Costs, Mixed Effects on Quality of Care

Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin, Amelia M. Haviland, Cheryl L. Damberg, Kanika Kapur, Nicole Lurie, M. Susan Marquis, Roland McDevitt

The Cost of Producing New Airmen Can Be Reduced with a Better Mixture of On-the-Job Training and Schoolhouse Courses

Thomas Manacapilli, Alexis Bailey, Christopher Beighley, Bart Bennett, Aimee Bower

Counterinsurgency Operations May Require Modernization of the U.S. Airlift Fleet

Robert C. Owen, Karl P. Mueller

Developing transport demand models: State-of-practice tools to enable detailed assessment of transport policy

James Fox

Discrete choice modelling: Methods for understanding why people make the choices that they do

Do Benefits of Sarbanes-Oxley Justify the Costs?: Empirical Evidence in the Case of Small Firms

Susan M. Gates, Kristin J. Leuschner

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