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Differences in Cost of Living and Military Pay Growth for Army Personnel

1 week ago | rand.org | Beth J. Asch |Jessie Wang

Key Findings From 2018 to 2020, Army pay growth exceeded the change in cost of living nationally. However, in 2021 and 2022, exceptionally high inflation levels resulted in cost-of-living increases that exceeded the growth in Army pay nationally.
Central Bank Digital Currency Design Choices and Effect on Law Enforcement

1 week ago | rand.org | Phoebe Rose |Lucy Thomson |Jim Mignano |Daniel Egel

Mignano, Jim, Daniel Egel, Phoebe Rose Levine, Daniel Cunningham, Brian A. Jackson, John S. Hollywood, Lucy L. Thomson, and Dulani Woods, Central Bank Digital Currency Design Choices and Effect on Law Enforcement, Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center operated by the RAND Corporation, RR-A2952-1, 2025. As of April 17, 2025: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2952-1.html Mignano, Jim, Daniel Egel, Phoebe Rose Levine, Daniel Cunningham, Brian A. Jackson, John S. Hollywood, Lucy L.
Sources of Organizational Variability in Fatal Police Shootings in the USA

1 week ago | rand.org | John MacDonald |John Macdonald |Anthony A. Braga |Roland Neil

Publisher: NatureAvailability: Non-RAND Year: 2025 Pages: 1 Document Number: EP-70916 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.
From Strategic Ambiguity to Strategic Anxiety: Taiwan's Trump Challenge

1 month ago | rand.org | Jude Blanchette |Gerard DiPippo

Taiwan's officials are anxious, and rightly so. Taiwan's strategic dilemma is getting worse. Beijing is intensifying its pressure on Taiwan, with Chinese fighter jets and naval vessels testing the island's defenses, while Chinese vessels are implicated in severing Taiwan's undersea telecommunications cables.
Assessing the Needs of Military-Connected Children and Resources to Address Those Needs

1 month ago | rand.org | Jennifer Jeffries |Laurie Martin |Thomas E. Trail

Key Findings Current and emerging needs generally varied by setting given the different ages and stages of children and youth. Across settings, most directors and principals indicated that they had the resources to address most needs of military-connected children but would need additional resources to focus on needs in the future as the prevalence of these concerns grows.
Instruction About Social and Political Topics in K-12 Public Schools

1 month ago | rand.org | Melissa Kay |Ashley Woo |Melissa Diliberti |Elizabeth D. Steiner

Key Findings Among the ten social and political topics the survey asked about, teachers most frequently taught about social and emotional learning (SEL) (90 percent), stories or histories about people of color (80 percent), and racial inequality (69 percent). Teachers least commonly taught about gun control or gun rights (30 percent) and pro-life or pro-choice positions (16 percent).
Gaza Is the Land of No Good Options

1 month ago | rand.org | Raphael Cohen

Over the last few weeks, a lot of ink has been spilled on the Trump administration's “day after” plans for Gaza. Less attention, though, has been focused on evaluating what might happen to Gaza if Israel and Hamas were to agree to a deal to end the current war after a final hostages-for-prisoners exchange. The short answer is that it's not good. On its present course, Hamas would likely rebuild, Gaza would remain in ruins, and a durable peace settlement would be all but impossible.
Teach For Pakistan Evaluation

1 month ago | rand.org | Elaine Lin |Jonathan Schweig |Elaine Wang |Sabrina Lee

Key Findings Student academic achievement improved more for students of TFP Fellows than for students of non-TFP teachers. Students in treatment classrooms scored between 0.15 and 0.41 standard deviations higher than students in comparison classrooms on mathematics, English, and science assessments. There was no quantitative evidence that student SEL improved more for students of TFP Fellows than for students of non-TFP teachers.
Protective Behavioral Strategies and Alcohol Consequences

1 month ago | rand.org | Graham DiGuiseppi |Megan Brown |Joan S. Tucker |Eric R. Pedersen

Publisher: APA PsycNetAvailability: Non-RAND Year: 2025 Pages: 13 Document Number: EP-70879 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.
A Review of the Military Basic Pay Table

1 month ago | rand.org | Michael G. Mattock |Beth J. Asch |Jason Ward |Samuel Absher

Key Findings Average regular military compensation has exceeded the 70th percentile benchmark since the early 2000s; this finding suggests that a higher benchmark could be appropriate, although the services have experienced strong retention overall and methods other than pay, such as increasing advertising and the number of recruiters, are more cost-effective recruiting resource tools.