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Essays on crime and search frictions
Engelhardt, Bryan - 2008
search and matching model of the labor market. All workers, irrespective of their labor force status can commit crimes and …
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Determination of the optimal number of strata for bias reduction in propensity score matching.
Akers, Allen - 2010
Previous research implementing stratification on the propensity score has generally relied on using five strata, based on prior theoretical groundwork and minimal empirical evidence as to the suitability of quintiles to adequately reduce bias in all cases and across all sample sizes. This study...
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Three Essays on Semiparametric Methods for the Evaluation of Social Programs.
Busso, Matias - 2008
methods for the evaluation of social programs. The first essay evaluates the federal urban Empowerment Zone (EZ) program using … properties of several semiparametric estimators of average treatment effects, including IPW, matching and double robust …
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Sequential Pre-Marital Investment Games: Implications for Unemployment
Boudreau, James W. - 2008
Agents on the same side of a two-sided matching market (such as the marriage or labor market) compete with each other … generally occur prior to matching, this activity has come to be known in recent literature (Peters, 2007) as pre … matching game in which one side of the market invests first, followed by the other. Interpreting the first group of agents as …
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14.661 Labor Economics I, Fall 2006
Pischke, Jorn-Steffen; Angrist, Joshua - 2006
Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply, labor demand, and human capital. Topics discussed also include wage and employment determination, turnover, search, immigration, unemployment, equalizing differences, and...
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Dual employment protection legislation : a framework for analysis
Dolado Lobregad, Juan José; Jansen, Marcel; Jimeno … - 2005
In many countries, Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) establishes different regulations for certain groups of workers who face more disadvantages in the labor market (young workers, women, unskilled workers, etc.) with the aim of improving their employability. Well-known examples are the...
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L’IMPACT DU CAPITAL HUMAIN SUR LA PRODUCTIVITE AGRICOLE AU BURKINA FASO
Theophile, Kabore - 2010
matching utilisé habituellement pour évaluer l’impact de politique sur une population donnée a été utilisée comme méthode d … Score Matching usually used to estimate the impact of social or economic policies on target groups. By the matching method …
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IRP methods for Environmental Impact Statements of utility expansion plans
Cavallo, J.D.; Hemphill, R.C.; Veselka, T.D. - 2008
Most large electric utilities and a growing number of gas utilities in the United States are using a planning method -- Integrated Resource Planning (IRP) - which incorporates demand-side management (DSM) programs whenever the marginal cost of the DSM programs are lower than the marginal cost of...
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The Electronics Quality/Reliability Center: Lessons learned from partnering with industry
Dellin, T.A. - 2008
The government electronics community faces the exciting challenge of entering into new of types of partnerships with the commercial electronics industry. Past interactions have been based primarily on the needs of government. Future interactions will be based more on the needs of industry,...
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National Security Technology Incubator Business Plan
2008
structure and staffing, services, evaluation criteria, marketing strategies, client processes, a budget, incubator evaluation …
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