Using the Fragile Families and Child Well-Being Study, this paper investigates how income volatility and union stability and transitions influence patterns in Food Stamp Program (FSP) participation among a sample of young families (n=1263). Multinomial logistic regression models suggest that...

The allocation problem in health care can be characterised as a mathematical programming problem but attempts to incorporate uncertainty in costs and effect have suffered from important limitations. A two stage stochastic mathematical programming formulation is developed and applied to a...

Background: The objective of a decision maker is to determine the optimal allocation of treatments across population groups and healthcare programmes given a fixed budget. If costs and benefits are known precisely, deterministic mathematical programming (MP) methods can be used to allocate...

High energy burdens challenge nearly a quarter of US households and could increase under climate change due to shifts in space heating and cooling. Using detailed building models, building physics-based simulations, and downscaled meteorological data, we quantify seasonal and annual household...