Mukesh Ray is a senior economist in AIR's Health Division with over 10 years of experience implementing and studying health and development policies, with a particular focus on Medicaid. He has led projects that involve advanced econometric methods, data sciences, experimental and quasi-experimental program evaluations, statistical modeling, and programming. Dr. ...
Violence is a widespread public health problem that occurs in many forms, including child abuse and neglect, youth violence, sexual violence, and intimate partner violence. Fortunately, decades of research and practice have proven that violence is preventable. AIR is the lead contractor for the Violence Prevention Technical Assistance Center (VPTAC), ...
Rebecca Steingut is a researcher working in Human Services Division at AIR. Currently, Dr. Steingut is a project director on an National Science Foundation-funded meta-analysis assessing the impact of interventions on post-secondary motivation and retention. In addition, Dr. Steingut is working on a literature search for the RESTART PreK-12 Task ...
In 2011, Massachusetts initiated the Safe and Successful Youth Initiative (SSYI), which provides a comprehensive public health approach for young men believed to be at “proven risk” for being involved with firearms. This article summarizes the results of a quasi-experimental evaluation study to test a youth violence intervention program in ...
Education, health and social policy experts with the American Institutes for Research (AIR) are available to discuss issues raised by President Barack Obama in his final State of the Union Address, including efforts to cut college costs, curb gun violence and make healthcare more affordable. AIR’s experts are available to ...
Michael A. Stoll is Professor of Public Policy in the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He has served as an Institute Fellow at AIR, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, a Research Fellow at the Institute for Research on Poverty at ...