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Preservation of Agricultural Soils with Endogenous Stochastic Degradation

Bretschger, Lucas; Vinogradova, Alexandra - 2016

Soils are often subject to environmental shocks which are caused by negative extern- alities linked to overexploitation. We present a stochastic model of a dynamic agricultural economy where natural disasters are sizeable, multiple, and random. Expansion of agricultural activities raises...

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Short-term decisions under long-term uncertainty

Tol, Richard S. J. - 1997

The behaviour of future policy-makers substantially influences future greenhouse gas emissions. Uncertainty about the motives of future policy-makers may thus strongly influence the climate policy strategies of current policy-makers. Analytical and numerical analyses in this paper confirm this...

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Optimal sequencing of antiretroviral drug cocktails under uncertainty and irreversibility

Bezabih, Mintewab; Stolpe, Michael - 2007

This paper develops a real options approach to the optimal sequencing of antiretroviral drug cocktails for HIV/AIDS patients in resource-poor settings. The analysis focuses on the implications of endogenous resistance mutations in the virus that reduce or eliminate the effectiveness of...

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Prioritizing public health expenditures when there is a private alternative

Hoel, Michael - 2005

Cost-effectiveness analysis often plays an important role in prioritization among different types of public health expenditures. Cost-effectiveness is defined as the maximal health benefits for given expenditures on health care. With a private health sector as a supplement to the public sector,...

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Import protection, business cycles, and exchange rates: Evidence from the great recession

Bown, Chad P.; Crowley, Meredith A. - 2011

This paper uses highly detailed, quarterly data for five major industrialized economies to estimate the impact of macroeconomic fluctuations on import protection policies over 1988:Q1 - 2010:Q4. First, estimates on a pre-Great Recession sample of data provide evidence of two key relationships....

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Age, period and cohort effects on migration of the baby boomers in Australia

Sander, Nikola; Bell, Martin - 2012

effects. This paper focuses on inter-cohort differences in the intensity and pattern of internal migration in Australia, while … Australian baby boom compared to the US. The baby boom in Australia was delayed and much smaller in terms of absolute and …

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Immigrants' Language Skills: The Australian Experience in a Longitudinal Survey

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

Australia, is used to test the model. This survey had three waves, at about 6 months, 18 months and 3? years after immigration …

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Immigrants' Language Skills and Visa Category

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

for Australia. It focuses on both visa category and variables derived from an economic model of the determinants of …

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The Determinants of the Geographic Concentration among Immigrants: Application to Australia

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

concentrated. Testing the model for Australia shows that the extent of geographic concentration of immigrant groups is negatively … related to age at migration, duration of residence in Australia and the proportion of the birthplace group that is fluent in … the country of origin and the place of residence in Australia. …

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Longitudinal Analysis of Immigrant Occupational Mobility: A Test of the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis

Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002

tests the hypotheses using data on adult males from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia. The theoretical … includes data on pre-immigration occupation, the ?first? occupation in Australia (at 6 months) and the occupation after about 3 ….5 years in Australia. The hypotheses are supported by the empirical analysis. …

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