RAND Corporation

🏥 Healthcare

May 23, 2026

Preventing Alcohol and Cannabis-Impaired Driving Among Adolescents

Evaluates a single-session web intervention added to driver education for adolescents in Colorado. WebCHAT participants showed lower perceived peer alcohol and cannabis use norms at 6 months. Both groups reduced substance use and perceived impaired driving as riskier

United States

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🏥 Healthcare

May 23, 2026

Enduring Versus Curable

This paper details how our team collected qualitative data about how chiropractic patients perceived pain chronicity, and how we used these findings to inform a national quantitative study

United States

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🏥 Healthcare

May 05, 2026

Efforts to Lower Health Care Costs Through Informed Consumer Choice

Since 2002, the State of Minnesota has provided health care coverage for its employees and their dependents using a tiered cost-sharing approach. This brief synthesizes findings from four studies examining the design and outcomes of this system

United States

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💻 Technology

May 05, 2026

Open-Weight AI Models Require Proportional Evaluation Approaches

Open-weight AI models (OWMs) introduce distinct risk factors for which existing evaluation practices, largely designed for closed-weight model deployment, fail to account. The authors propose proportional evaluation approaches for OWMs

Global

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🌍 Geopolitics

May 05, 2026

Contingency Frameworks for Future U.S.-China Cooperation on AI Assurance and Security

The author aims to inform artificial intelligence contingency planning under the premise that preserving strategic optionality for future U.S.-China engagement serves U.S. interests. He proposes five potential lines of effort for doing so

Global

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👥 Society

May 02, 2026

Breaking Barriers Rapid Rehousing Program for Justice-Involved Individuals in Los Angeles County

Justice-involved individuals often face significant challenges securing stable housing and employment. The authors of this report examine a program designed to help justice-involved individuals improve housing and employment outcomes

United States

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🏥 Healthcare

May 02, 2026

State Tele-Buprenorphine Prescribing Policies by Medical Professional Type

Systematic legal mapping of all 50 states finds wide variation in tele-buprenorphine policy support for Medicaid enrollees, with six states prohibiting virtual OUD care and NPs and PAs facing greater barriers than physicians

United States

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👥 Society

May 01, 2026

Beyond Incarceration

This brief describes results from an evaluation of Breaking Barriers, a program in Los Angeles County that helps justice-involved individuals and families secure stable housing and employment

United States

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💻 Technology

May 01, 2026

Multi-Ecosystem Competition in Artificial Intelligence Adoption and Diffusion

The author provides a theoretical framework for understanding artificial intelligence (AI) diffusion dynamics in the presence of competing technologies with heterogeneous value propositions

Global

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📈 Economy

May 01, 2026

Gaps in State Workforce Priorities, Needs, and Training Programs

The authors analyze Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) plans (2024–2027) and eligible training provider lists to assess how well state workforce development systems align with labor market demand

United States

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🏗️ Infrastructure

Apr 30, 2026

How Much More Power Can the U.S. Grid Provide for AI?

A team of RAND researchers estimated how much additional power capacity the United States is likely to have by 2030 by translating planned electricity supply resources into a common measure of reliable capacity. This brief summarizes the results

United States

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🏥 Healthcare

Apr 30, 2026

Pediatric Dental Surgeries in Children with Intellectual Disabilities and Autism Paid by Means of Medicaid

Children with intellectual disabilities or autism were less likely to receive Medicaid-covered dental surgeries at lower-cost ambulatory surgery centers than hospital outpatient departments

United States

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