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The risks of nation-building through military aid and intervention
Dimant, Eugen; Krieger, Tim; Meierrieks, Daniel - 2022
This chapter discusses the role of military interventionism and aid in nation-building. We argue that (1) intervention strategies of foreign actors like the United States often unfavorably interact with local institutional settings, which (2) produces undesired outcomes not only for the target...
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Benefit-cost analysis of environmental projects : a plethora of systematic biases
Graves, Philip E. - 2010
There are many reasons to suspect that benefit-cost analysis applied to environmental policies will result in policy decisions that will reject those environmental policies. The important question, of course, is whether those rejections are based on proper science. The present paper explores...
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One chance in a million : altruism and the bone marrow registry
Bergstrom, Theodore C. (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003598837
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The macroeconomics of TANSTAAFL
Grossmann, Volker; Steger, Thomas M.; Trimborn, Timo - 2011
This paper shows that dynamic inefficiency can occur in dynamic general equilibrium models with fully optimizing, infinitely-lived households even in a situation with underinvestment. We identify necessary conditions for such a possibility and illustrate it in a standard R&D-based growth model....
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The child adoption marketplace : parental preferences and adoption outcomes
Skidmore, Mark; Anderson, Gary R.; Eiswerth, Mark - 2011
In the United States child adoption costs vary considerably, ranging from no out-of-pocket expense to $50,000 or more. What are the underlying causes for the variability in child adoption expenses? While cost variability is widely acknowledged, the sources of the differentials have not been...
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The willingness to pay for mortality risk reductions : a comparison of the United States and Canada
Alberini, Anna; Krupnick, Alan J.; Cropper, Maureen L.; … - 2002
We present results for two contingent valuation surveys conducted in Hamilton, Canada and the US to elicit WTP for mortality risk reductions. We find similar Value of Statistical Life estimates across the two studies, ranging from USD 930,000 to USD 4.8 million (2000 US dollars). WTP increases...
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Engineering growth : innovative capacity and development in the Americas
Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2017
engineer. It collects cross-country and state level data on the labor share of engineers for the Americas, and county level … in engineers in 1880 accounts for a 16% increase in US county income today, and patenting capacity contributes another 10 … engineers diverged in their growth trajectories over the next century. The results are supported by historical case studies from …
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Effects of the 2010 Affordable Care Act dependent care provision on military participation among young adults
Chatterji, Pinka; Liu, Xiangshi; Yörük, Barış K. - 2018
In this study, we test whether the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) dependent care provision is associated with young adults' propensity to be in the armed forces and to have military health insurance. We use a difference-in-difference (DD) approach, comparing the outcomes of young adults targeted by...
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Spatial concentration of military dictatorships in Sub-Saharan Africa (1977 - 2007)
Caruso, Raul; Petrarca, Ilaria; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2014
We empirically investigate the existence of spatial autocorrelation between military dictatorships in Sub-Saharan Africa from 1977 through 2007. We apply a Bayesian SAR probit regression, extended to a pooled model. We find a robust and positive spatial autocorrelation coefficient, which shows a...
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Security gradient and national defense : the optimal choice between a draft army and a professional army
Kanniainen, Vesa; Ringbom, Staffan - 2014
The earlier work on the optimal design of the national security has focused on the opportunity cost of the draft in terms of foregone human capital formation. The current paper introduces the national security into the welfare analysis missing from the earlier work. This creates a trade-off...
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