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It is becoming increasingly clear, at least on a theoretical level, that modelers of the potential impacts of climate change must impose that change upon the world as it will be configured sometime in the future rather than confine their attention to considerations of what would happen to the...
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The Lincoln Public School District, in Lincoln, Nebraska, recently installed vertical-bore geothermal heat pump systems …
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illegitimacy solely to government welfare programs. Specifically, a program similar to AFDC is introduced into an economy with low … simultaneous trends of declining real welfare benefits and rising illegitimacy over the past two and a half decades are therefore … not inconsistent with the view that illegitimacy might be caused primarily by government welfare policies. Although this …
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prospects. The first essay finds that immigrants choose labor markets with smaller welfare-reform created native supply shocks … that the distribution of immigrants' destinations shifts markedly away from cities with high welfare participation prior to …
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In 1993, the State of Iowa, through waivers, implemented reforms to its welfare program creating the Family Investment …
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question and to estimate the model.My second chapter revisits the welfare cost of anticipated inflation in an incomplete … percent increase in inflation causes the welfare level go down by 2 percent if people are allowed to substitute time for money …
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issue has also been lackluster; despite the large welfare gains that have been demonstrated to result from relatively small … forces of Australia and New Zealand from elsewhere within the Pacific region would raise welfare in both Australia and New … unskilled workers, the loss of scarce skilled workers could lead to significant declines in the welfare of those remaining …
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This dissertation evaluates the impact of quality certification on the demand for locally-produced infant foods. To avoid stunting or wasting, most children aged 6-24 months need to complement breastmilk with processed foods having higher energy density than adult foods. Donors have subsidized...
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The study provides conclusive evidence on existence of economic barriers, namely money price and time price, to regular treatment attendance for methadone maintenance clients. The study is designed to develop improved time price measures and investigate their effect on treatment attendance....
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Background . Michigan Medicaid outpatient prescription drug program implemented the following four policies to address rising expenditures considered "out of control": (1) February 2002: Preferred Drug List (PDL); (2) February 2003: Joint Purchasing Arrangement (JPA); (3) November 2003: Maximum...
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