Jeffrey B. Wenger

Sep 23, 2024 | rand.org | Teresa Kroeger |Jason Ward |Jeffrey B. Wenger

Topics Publisher: Cambridge University PressAvailability: Non-RAND Year: 2024 Pages: 24 Document Number: EP-70643 This publication is part of the RAND external publication series. Many RAND studies are published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals, as chapters in commercial books, or as documents published by other organizations. RAND is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis.

Jun 6, 2024 | finance.yahoo.com | Jeffrey B. Wenger |George Zuo

Jeffrey B. Wenger is the director of the RAND Lowy Family Middle-Class Pathways Center. George Zuo, an applied microeconomist, works at RAND researching policies bridging economic, education, and health disparities in the U.S.As economists, we’re frequently asked for stock tips and clues about how to get rich. Rarely do we have good answers, but here’s a tip that could pay off in spades in the long term.

Jun 6, 2024 | rand.org | Jeffrey B. Wenger |George Zuo

As economists, we're frequently asked for stock tips and clues about how to get rich. Rarely do we have good answers, but here's a tip that could pay off in spades in the long term. Investors know that a 7 percent rate of return doubles an investment every 10 years: $10,000 today could grow to $80,000 in 30 years. A 9 percent rate of return, however, could transform that same $10,000 into $160,000 over the same time span. So how do you gin up that extra 2 percent?

Jun 6, 2023 | rand.org | Jeffrey B. Wenger |Jonathan Wong

The authors use a method for military-to-civilian occupational matching previously developed by RAND Corporation researchers for the U.S. Army and extend it to the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force. The method involves administering the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Information Network (O*NET) survey to service members in selected military occupations and comparing these data with the O*NET data collected for civilian occupations.

Jan 24, 2023 | bls.gov | Daniel Schwam |Shawn D. Bushway |Jeffrey B. Wenger

Featured Article Few researchers have focused on the labor market problems that U.S. workers with a criminal history record (CHR) experienced during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. In this article, we use data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97) COVID-19 Supplement to examine the extent to which workers with a CHR had employment disruptions—gaps in employment or reductions in hours and earnings—during the early months of the pandemic.