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A Unified Economic View of Space Solar Power (SSP)
Charania, Ashraf; Olds, John R. - 2000
Space Solar Power (SSP) is a concept to beam energy from space to terrestrial power grids that could be feasible in about twenty to forty years. Due to the current climate of limited government funding for such large-scale space projects, NASA would prefer more industry involvement (technically...
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Myopia of Health-Care Reform Using Business Models
Kenneth, MacInnes; McAlister, Vivian C. - 2001
Background: Health-care institutions have looked to business for models to respond to the requirement for reform. This has changed the perspective of institutions that were founded on charitable principles, and managed with liberal employment policies and deficit budgeting. Using lesions from...
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Study on Universal Postal Service and the Postal Monopoly
Fritschler, A. Lee; Pommerening, Christine; Campbell, … - 2008
Service Obligation and the Postal MonopolyG. Public Needs and ExpectationsH. Evaluation of Policy OptionsThe lead authors of …
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EPRI Cogeneration Models -- DEUS and COPE
1983
In the Fall of 1978, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) initiated a program for the design and evaluation of … portion of the study involved the development of a simulation model for evaluation of cogeneration systems on a site specific … financial model, Cogeneration Options Evaluation (COPE), is designed to consider the financial and regulatory implications for …
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Essays on crime and search frictions
Engelhardt, Bryan - 2008
search and matching model of the labor market. All workers, irrespective of their labor force status can commit crimes and …
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Determination of the optimal number of strata for bias reduction in propensity score matching.
Akers, Allen - 2010
Previous research implementing stratification on the propensity score has generally relied on using five strata, based on prior theoretical groundwork and minimal empirical evidence as to the suitability of quintiles to adequately reduce bias in all cases and across all sample sizes. This study...
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Three Essays on Semiparametric Methods for the Evaluation of Social Programs.
Busso, Matias - 2008
methods for the evaluation of social programs. The first essay evaluates the federal urban Empowerment Zone (EZ) program using … properties of several semiparametric estimators of average treatment effects, including IPW, matching and double robust …
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Sequential Pre-Marital Investment Games: Implications for Unemployment
Boudreau, James W. - 2008
Agents on the same side of a two-sided matching market (such as the marriage or labor market) compete with each other … generally occur prior to matching, this activity has come to be known in recent literature (Peters, 2007) as pre … matching game in which one side of the market invests first, followed by the other. Interpreting the first group of agents as …
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14.661 Labor Economics I, Fall 2006
Pischke, Jorn-Steffen; Angrist, Joshua - 2006
Neoclassical analysis of the labor market and its institutions. A systematic development of the theory of labor supply, labor demand, and human capital. Topics discussed also include wage and employment determination, turnover, search, immigration, unemployment, equalizing differences, and...
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Dual employment protection legislation : a framework for analysis
Dolado Lobregad, Juan José; Jansen, Marcel; Jimeno … - 2005
In many countries, Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) establishes different regulations for certain groups of workers who face more disadvantages in the labor market (young workers, women, unskilled workers, etc.) with the aim of improving their employability. Well-known examples are the...
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