Samuel Absher

The Impact of State Voting Processes in the 2020 Election

Estimating the Effects on Voter Turnout, Voting Method, and the Spread of COVID-19

This report examines the effects that changes in laws--meant to encourage turnout and protect public health during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID...

Banking the Unbanked

Calaccount Market Study and Feasibility Assessment

This report documents an analysis, conducted in response to the California Public Banking Option Act, of the feasibility of a program aimed at facilit...

Assessing the Value of Overseas Military Campaigning in Strategic Competition

The authors examine trade-offs between the contributions of campaigning instruments to U.S. strategic goals and their costs. They provide the foundati...

Building Military Coalitions

Lessons from U.S. Experience

The decision to use a military intervention to achieve a political goal is inherently risky. To offset some of these risks, slates sometimes seek to b...

A Revised Recruiting Resource Model for Achieving the Army Personnel Strategy

Accounting for Digital Advertising

Using an updated version of RAND's Recruiting Resource Model, the authors analyze how observed and alternative mixes of advertising, recruiters, and b...

Recruiter Management in the Department of the Air Force

Four appendixes contain data processing details, technical details and supplemental tables for recruiter characteristics, details and tables for the a...

The Role of Standards in Fostering Capability Evolution

Does Design Matter? Insights from Interoperability Standards

This report presents the findings of a review of two military standards that have enabled significant interoperability and evolution in warfighting to...