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Choosing to Serve: Understanding the Military Participation Decision

Mann, David R - 2011

With 2.4 million employees, the military is America's largest employer. Individuals make the military labor force participation decision within the context of other labor market opportunities, which may vary by race and over the business cycle. This paper develops and estimates a dynamic...

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The Ombudsman: Value of Expertise for Forecasting Decisions in Conflicts

Green, Kesten C.; Armstrong, J. Scott - 2007

In important conflicts such as wars and labor-management disputes, people typically rely on the judgment of experts to predict the decisions that will be made. We compared the accuracy of 106 forecasts by experts and 169 forecasts by novices about eight real conflicts. The forecasts of experts...

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An Initial Look at Technology and Institutions on Defense Industry Consolidation

Driessnack, John; King, David - 2004

driving consolidation and provide greater insight to policy makers seeking to improve the performance of the defense industry …Conventional wisdom holds that defense industry consolidation resulted from decreased defense spending. However, we … maintain that understanding dynamic changes in key defense institutions helps provide a more complete explanation for observed …

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Contextualizing Personal Experience: The Role of Mass Media

Mutz, Diana C - 1994

This study considers competing theories concerning the role of mass media in hindering or facilitating the translation of personal experience into political preferences. Using national survey and media content data that allows evaluations of both media coverage and individual patterns of media...

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An Analysis of the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit

Claudio, Lucarelli - 2006

prescription drug coverage under the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003. The policy debate has … impact on beneficiaries’ life expectancy, health status, and health-related behaviors. The policy came into effect in January … 2006; therefore, no post-policy data are available yet. This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model of the demand for …

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Measuring the Economic Impact of a Nonprofit Small Business Kitchen Incubator: A Cast Study of Nuestra Culinary Ventures

Hall, Emma - 2007

Combining food, entrepreneurship, and economic development, Nuestra Culinary Ventures (NCV) appeals to people’s hearts and stomachs. Operated by Nuestra Comunidad Development Corporation, NCV is a nonprofit small business kitchen incubator located in Boston. NCV provides culinary entrepreneurs...

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Fenton Village: How to Preserve & Revive a Struggling Small Business District in Already Developing Downtown Silver Spring

Wrigley, Eric - 2007

Fenton Village, downtown Silver Spring, Maryland’s small business district, is experiencing a marked decline since the once-struggling downtown began its revival. The competition from new development and lack of government action are hurting Fenton Village, forcing small businesses to close,...

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International Trade Openness and Gender Gaps in Pakistani Labor Force Participation Rates Over 57 Years

Hyder, Asma; Behrman, Jere R - 2011

The extent of openness to international trade may alter incentives differentially by gender for labor force participation, particularly in economies in which gender differentials in human capital investments such as schooling are large and in which norms about gender behaviors are strong. This...

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Time Preference and Its Relationship with Age, Health, and Longevity Expectations

Chao, Li-wei; Szrek, Helena; Pereira, Nuno Sousa; … - 2007

pilot project is policy relevant, as the study tries to determine the importance of health in economic development, not from …

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Notes on The Unit of Adoption in Diffusion Research

Katz, Elihu - 1962

In thinking about the diffusion of innovation, one tends to overlook the obvious fact that not all innovations are adopted by, or are intended to be adopted by, individuals. In the first place, different sorts of innovations may "require" different units of adoption- for example, "it takes two...

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