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We use a public referendum on a new air traffic concept in Berlin, Germany as a natural experiment to analyze how the interaction of tenure and capitalization effects shapes the outcome of direct democracy processes. We distinguish between homevoters, i.e., voters who are homeowners, and...
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methods to disentangle the offsetting noise and accessibility effects of one technology of mass transit, metro rail, analyzing … land prices (house prices) by 21% (5%), while a 10 db increase in noise depreciates land prices (house prices) by 5% (1 …%). We show that these effects are underestimated by 40% (access) to 80% (noise) if they are not estimated conditional on …
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levels. The outline of the paper is as follows. First, we combine a set of noise and air pollutants measured at a number of …
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), we examine the impact of exposure to excessive noise levels on birth outcomes. Using birth records that include mothers … mothers living near the airport in the direction of the runway. We utilize exogenous variation in noise exposure triggered by … NextGen, which unintentionally increased noise in communities affected by the new flight patterns. Our finding informs policy …
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Gradient-based approaches to direct policy search in reinforcement learning have received much recent attention as a means to solve problems of partial observability and to avoid some of the problems associated with policy degradation in value-function methods. In this paper we introduce GPOMDP,...
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The vast majority of psychology, sociology, and other social-science literature describing human behavior and performance does not reach the eyes of those of us working in the modeling and simulation community. Our recent work has been concerned with the extraction and implementation of Human...
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difficult. We show that individuals systematically (and mistakenly) blame accidental negative shocks (noise) to the deliberate … intent of individuals (bias). This "victimhood bias" wherein individuals ascribe noise to bias is much larger for (a … suggest that insurance agreements that limit negative shocks and reduce noise, can encourage reconciliation by mitigating …
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