Paul S. Steinberg

How Effective Is Correctional Education, and Where Do We Go from Here? The Results of a Comprehensive Evaluation

Assesses the effectiveness of correctional education for both incarcerated adults and juveniles, presents the results of a survey of U.S. state correc...

What Factors Cause Individuals to Reject Violent Extremism in Yemen?

Why do some individuals engage in political violence in Yemen, while others do not? We examine the role that social, political, and economic factors p...

Sleep in the Military

Promoting Healthy Sleep Among U.S. Servicemembers

Given the unprecedented demands on the U.S. military since 2001 and the risks posed by stress and trauma, there has been growing concern about the pre...

Statewide Calworks Evaluation

An Overview

Provides an overview of the plan for reforming the welfare system based on a new program called CalWORKs....

What Factors Cause Youth to Reject Violent Extremism?

Results of an Exploratory Analysis in the West Bank

"Continued terrorist attacks and the involvement of foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq have prompted a surge of interest among policymakers, law enfor...

Limiting Regret

Building the Army We Will Need

This report makes three essential points: The world has changed following the foundational defense planning in the 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review; em...

Using Social Media to Extract Information about Chemical Weapons Incidents

A Methodology and Demonstration of Concept from the Civil War in Syria

Policymakers across the federal government have begun to recognize the potential of social media as a source of information and have commissioned stud...

Restructuring Military Education and Training; Lessons from Rand Research

This report aims to identify promising directions for restructuring programs of military education and training to make them more effective, affordabl...

Improving Oversight and Coordination of Department of Defense Programs That Address Problematic Behaviors Among Military Personnel

Final Report

"Pressures inside and outside the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to reduce the incidence of problematic behaviors within the military are inducing t...

Developing Metrics and Scoring Procedures to Support Mitigation Grant Program Decisionmaking

To develop metrics that can inform decisionmaking for awarding predisaster mitigation grants, the authors established three lines of effort (LoEs) for...

Assessing the Value of Regionally Aligned Forces in Army Security Cooperation

An Overview

This report highlights recent RAND Arroyo Center research on the value of the Army's regionally aligned forces to U.S. security cooperation activities...

What Veterans Bring to Civilian Workplaces

A Prototype Toolkit for Helping Private-sector Employers Understand the Nontechnical Skills Developed in the Military

Veterans have a great deal to offer to potential civilian employers, including valuable nontechnical skills, such as leadership, decisionmaking, being...

America's Strategy-Resource Mismatch

Addressing the Gaps Between U. S. National Strategy and Military Capacity

Significant gaps exist in the ability of the United States and its allies to deter or defeat aggression that could threaten national interests. For ex...