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effectively for experimental ones. Recently, the spotlight has focused on one method, propensity score matching (PSM), as the … suggested approach for evaluating employment and education programs. We present a case study of our experience using PSM, under … ideal conditions and the passing of statistical tests suggesting that the matching procedure had worked, we find that PSM …
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While soft OR tools offer specific solutions to manage complexity in organisations, little is known concerning soft OR tools to deal with self-organisation in communities. This paper describes an action research project where the authors facilitated a process of self-organisation in a developing...
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Decision-making for multi-purpose forestry requires well-aligned public participation and stakeholder interaction. The operational research community has developed both the theory and practice of problem-structuring methods (PSMs) to help stakeholders determine a solvable joint problem...
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Public Service Motivation (PSM) is a relatively recent concept, defined for the first time in the 1990s in the United … encountered only in public institutions. These values, which represent the basis for the construction of PSM are not … region, the state or the organizational environment. European studies regarding PSM have mainly focused on Western Europe …
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The motivation of “sector switchers”—individuals who move from one employment sector to another over the course of their careers—is under-researched. This exploratory study is a qualitative study of sector switchers. It uses interviews wit1h 50 such individuals to add depth to an...
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This paper uses special features of Vietnam's health insurance system to separately estimate the effects of moral hazard and adverse selection. Traditionally, the estimation of those effects is ad hoc due to the endogeneity of insurance status. Due to a special fact in Vietnam that there exist a...
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program intervention very difficult. The task gets more difficult when there are no baseline studies available. PSM offers one … Evaluation of INHP- III where the Quasi-Experimental Design was employed using the PSM technique to construct the ideal …
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reverse this scenario. This study uses Propensity Score Matching (PSM) technique to evaluate the impact of participation in an …
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-to-pay (WTP) for travel time changes from binomial choice data from a simple time-cost trading experiment. The analysis favours a … model with random WTP as the only source of randomness over a model with fixed WTP which is linear in time and cost and has … an additive random error term. Results further indicate that the distribution of log WTP can be described as a sum of a …
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) survey will be much higher if the same elicited mean willingness to pay (WTP) is added up over individuals rather than … an “uncontaminated” WTP measure that with some degree of confidence can be aggregated over one or the other response unit …. The literature is mostly silent about which response unit to use in WTP questions and in some CV studies it is even …
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