There have been significant changes in both the fertility rates and fertility perception since 1970s. In this paper, we examine the relationship between government policies towards fertility and the fertility trends. Total fertility rate, defined as the number of children per woman, is used as...

We propose a data-driven approach to model assortment optimization problems based on three real data sets. Our work is motivated by two empirical observations from customers browsing history on Taobao: one is that most customers browse very few items (=5) before they make a purchase; the second...

The goal of this paper is to evaluate a "couples-based" policy intervention designed to reduce the number of Australian families without work. In 2000 and 2001, the Australian Government piloted a new counseling initiative targeted towards couple-headed families with dependent children in which...