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Machine Learning and Mobile Phone Data Can Improve the Targeting of Humanitarian Assistance
Aiken, Emily; Bellue, Suzanne; Karlan, Dean; Udry, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), causing widespread food insecurity and a sharp decline in living standards. In response to this crisis, governments and humanitarian organizations worldwide have mobilized targeted social assistance programs....
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Can the West Save Africa?
Easterly, William - 2008
celebrity mass advocacy campaign, and decisions by Western leaders to make Africa a major foreign policy priority. This survey …
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What Determines Giving to Hurricane Katrina Victims? Experimental Evidence on Income, Race, and Fairness
Fong, Christina M. - 2007
We investigate determinants of private and public generosity to Katrina victims using an artifactual field experiment. In this experiment, respondents from the general population viewed a short audiovisual presentation that manipulated respondents' perceptions of the income, race, and...
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The Fiscal Cost of Hurricanes : Disaster Aid Versus Social Insurance
Deryugina, Tatyana - 2016
Little is known about the fiscal costs of natural disasters, especially regarding social safety nets that do not specifically target extreme weather events. This paper shows that US hurricanes lead to substantial increases in non-disaster government transfers, such as unemployment insurance and...
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A General Rationale for a Governmental Role in the Relief of Large Risks
Shavell, Steven - 2014
The government often provides relief against large risks, such as disasters. A simple, general rationale for this role of government is considered here that applies even when private contracting to share risks is not subject to market imperfections. Specifically, the optimal private sharing of...
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Organization of Disaster Aid Delivery : Spending Your Donations
Henderson, J. Vernon - 2011
This paper analyzes how different organizational structures between funding and implementing agencies affect the quality of aid delivered and social agendas pursued across neighboring villages in a set disaster context. We model the implied objective functions and trade-offs concerning aid...
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Accounting for Price Endogeneity in Airline Itinerary Choice Models : An Application to Continental U.S. Markets
Lurkin, Virginie - 2016
Network planning models, which forecast the profitability of airline schedules, support many critical decisions, including equipment purchase decisions. Network planning models include an itinerary choice model that is used to allocate air total demand in a city pair to different itineraries....
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The Traveling Trucker Problem
Allen, Treb; Atkin, David; Cantillo Cleves, Santiago; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper documents three new stylized facts showing that truckers in Colombia frequently choose to make complex chains of shipments in a single trip before returning home. It then provides a newmodel of optimal trucker trip-chaining with a general geography that is consistent with these facts
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An Adaptive Nonlinear Least Square Algorithm
Dennis, John E. - 1977
NL2SOL is a modular program for solving the nonlinear least-squares problem that incorporates a number of novel features. It maintains a secant approximation S to the second-order part of the least-squares Hessian and adaptively decides when to use this approximation. We have found it very...
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A Conic Algorithm for the Group Minimization Problem
Simeone, Bruno - 1976
A new algorithm for the group minimization problem (GP) is proposed. The algorithm can be broadly described as follows …-known algorithm of Glover, and checked for non-negativity. The first non-negative point is an optimal solution of (GP). Advantages and … disadvantages of the algorithm are discussed; in particular, the implementation of the algorithm (which can be easily extended so as …
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