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Mexico's third-largest metropolitan area, Monterrey, faces future water security challenges as the region grows. Using RAND's Robust Decision Making (RDM) framework, researchers analyzed long-term trends and vulnerabilities in water management and showed the city's water planning community how a robust, adaptive water management strategy can meet current and future needs.
The economic implications of later school start times. This chapter presents the findings of the economic analysis from a statewide universal delay in SST to at least 8:30 a.m. First, the predicted cumulative gains in present values and their distribution across 47 U.S. states are reported.
Researchers at RAND provided one of the most comprehensive looks at the costs and benefits of a four-day school week. They reviewed test scores, surveyed families, and traveled through three states interviewing students, parents, teachers, and principals. They found that a shorter school week can help small districts like Athens compete for ...
The Guatemalan Survey of Family Health, known as EGSF from its name in Spanish (Encuesta Guatemalteca de Salud Familiar), was designed to examine the way in which rural Guatemalan families and individuals cope with childhood illness and pregnancy, and the role of ethnicity, poverty, social support and health beliefs in this process.
The war in Ukraine was a “massive and historic energy shock” to the markets, according to a November 2022 report by the OECD. The “shock” of the war was one of the main factors that had slowed economic growth in 2022 to just 3.1 percent, and why the OECD projected it to slow to 2.2 percent in 2023. The war, the report found, has had the ...
Wages and Compensation. From the grocery store to the job market, Americans are feeling the pulse of a changing economy. Particularly after the upheaval of the pandemic, some might be questioning long-held assumptions about prosperity, work, and the future. We asked two RAND experts to size up the economic landscape in this election year.
Economic Planning. Economic planning is the process policymakers undertake to ensure the generation, sharing, and consumption of wealth. RAND has examined the economic planning at local and national levels, the economic cycles that result, and the political issues surrounding the economic planning process.
Drawing on historical examples, the economic literature, and discussions with subject-matter experts, the authors assess the potential costs and likelihood of four threats: attacks on financial trading models, bond dumping by foreign holders of U.S. debt, using deepfakes to spread misinformation, and memetic engineering to manipulate beliefs ...
Congress, the Department of Defense, and other key stakeholders are working on once-in-a-generation changes to the planning, programming, budgeting, and execution (PPBE) process to foster greater speed, agility, and innovation. Join guests, including former secretary of defense Chuck Hagel and chair of the PPBE Reform Commission Bob Hale, as they discuss PPBE reform. [Virtual]
In 2018, the suicide rate among veterans 18–34 years old was 45.9 per 100,000—higher than in any other age group in either population and almost three times higher than for nonveterans in the same age bracket (16.5 per 100,000). This equated to 874 suicide deaths among veterans ages 18–34 (796 men and 78 women) in 2018.