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Welcome to RAND Labor and Population

RAND Labor and Population has built a national and international reputation for conducting high-quality, empirical research to support and improve policies and organizations around the world.

Our work has focused on labor markets, social welfare policy, demographic behavior, aging issues, retirement, and international development with the common aim toward understanding why people make the decisions they do and how markets, society, and policy affect them.

Findings and News

Researcher Spotlight: Emma Aguila, Associate Economist — Jul. 24, 2008

Emma Aguila

Emma Aguila, an Associate Economist at RAND and one of the founders of the Center for Latin American Social Policy (CLASP), was awarded the first place in the Inter-American Award for Research on Social Security. Her other research interests include retirement policy, and health and labor market dynamics.

Room for Improvement in California's Use of High-Quality Preschool Programs — Jun. 18, 2008

preschoolers learn to count

More than half of California’s preschoolers attend center-based early care and education programs, but the children who have the most to gain from preschool frequently are those least likely to participate in the programs.

What Does Economics Tell Us About Early Childhood Policy? — May 12, 2008

Baby with father

A growing body of economic research suggests that public investment in early childhood programs may be able to lower public costs for social services by improving children's long-term welfare.

Featured Projects

Displaced New Orleans Residents Survey: Where Are Hurricane Katrina Victims Now? — Jul. 16, 2008

displaced New Orleans residents, courtesy of Marvin Nauman/FEMA

The new Displaced New Orleans Residents Survey (DNORS) is designed to examine the current location, well-being, and plans of people who lived in the City of New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005.

Decision-making Health Policy Tools Help Improve the Lives of Older People — Apr. 11, 2007

Elderly man being active

The RAND Roybal Center for Health Policy Simulation works to develop better models to understand the consequences of biomedical developments and social forces for health, health spending, and health care delivery.

Featured Research

The Design of a Multilevel Survey of Children, Families, and Communities: The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey - 2006

Narayan Sastry, Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, John Adams, Anne R. Pebley

Population Implosion? Low Fertility and Policy Responses in the European Union - 2005

The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey: Household Questionnaires - 2004

Anne R. Pebley, Narayan Sastry

Neighborhood and Family Effects on Children's Health in Los Angeles - 2003

Narayan Sastry, Anne R. Pebley

Concentrated Poverty vs. Concentrated Affluence: Effects on Neighborhood Social Environments and Children's Outcomes - 2003

Anne R. Pebley, Narayan Sastry

The Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey: Codebook - 2003

Christine E. Peterson, Narayan Sastry, Anne R. Pebley, Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar, Stephanie Williamson, and Sandraluz Lara-Cinisomo

Designing Multidisciplinary Biobehavioral Research on Prematurity and LBW: Methodological Considerations - 2003

Brian Karl Finch

Los Angeles County Young Children's Literacy Experiences, Emotional Well-Being and Skills Acquisition: Results from the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey - 2003

Sandra Lara-Cinisomo, Anne R. Pebley

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