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's epidemiologic characteristics. It then estimates yearly costs of covering the population at risk with the package of interventions … Millennium Project. These projected costs are calculated assuming a ramp-up of coverage to full coverage by 2008, and then …
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I study irreversible investment decisions when projects take time to complete, and are subject to two types of uncertainty over the cost of completion. The first is technical uncertainty, i.e., uncertainty over the amount of time, effort, and materials that will ultimately be required to...
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are not well known. This paper establishes five new facts about college costs using novel department-level data. First …, costs vary widely across field, ranging from electrical engineering (109 percent higher costs than English) to math (22 … percent lower). Costs are generally higher in fields where graduates earn more and in pre-professional programs. Second, this …
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We assess the quantitative impact of firing costs on aggregate total factor productivity (TFP) in a dynamic general …-equilibrium framework where the distribution of establishment-level productivity is not invariant to the policy. Firing costs not only … losses. Firing costs equivalent to 5 year's wages imply a drop in TFP of more than 20 percent. Factor misallocation accounts …
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This paper estimates a household saving rate equation for India and Korea using long-term time series data for the 1975-2010 period, focusing in particular on the impact of the pre-marital sex ratio on the household saving rate. To summarize the main findings of the paper, it finds that the...
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resolved crises if they monitor the worker. If monitoring costs are positive but sufficiently small, for a range of …
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Heavier vehicles are safer for their own occupants but more hazardous for the occupants of other vehicles. In this paper we estimate the increased probability of fatalities from being hit by a heavier vehicle in a collision. We show that, controlling for own-vehicle weight, being hit by a...
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care costs of $1.5 to $2.7 billion for combat-induced PTSD …
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This paper investigates whether the securitization of corporate bank loans had an impact on the price of corporate debt. Our results suggest that loan facilities that are subsequently securitized are associated with a 15 basis point lower spread than that of loans that are not subsequently...
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reconcile with decision costs alone; it appears that unless a sizeable fraction of consumers value plan features other than cost …
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