This paper investigates the effects of application processing times on welfare applicants' benefit and employment … outcomes. For causal inference, we exploit exogenous variation in application processing times stemming from the random … assignment of caseworkers. Our findings indicate that longer application processing times deter applicants from receiving …

This paper investigates the effects of application processing times on welfare applicants' benefit and employment … outcomes. For causal inference, we exploit exogenous variation in application processing times stemming from the random … assignment of caseworkers. Our findings indicate that longer application processing times deter applicants from receiving …

We consider a project scheduling problem where the precedence constraints graph is an out-tree. The processing times … can be compressed by using additional resources, which causes cost and simultaneously reduces the processing times of jobs … compressing the processing times is linear in the amount of compression. The problem can be decomposed into two types of …

stochastic processing times. The basic idea is to solve a huge but simple linear program that models an entire simulation run of … processing times. However, unlike discrete-event simulation models, it also offers the optimization power of linear programming …