We consider two types of consumers, educated and uneducated, with each preferring a different variety of goods. A decisive set of persons can impose compulsory education on all. We find conditions under which educated persons will want to impose compulsory education, and conditions under which...

We consider a model with two types of consumers, with each preferring a different variety of goods, and with each better at producing the type of good it prefers to consume. We find that under plausible conditions members of the majority group earn a higher wage and enjoy higher utility than...

Gaussian Process (GP) models are popular statistical surrogates used for emulating computationally expensive computer simulators. The quality of a GP model fit can be assessed by a goodness of fit measure based on optimized likelihood. Finding the global maximum of the likelihood function for a...