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Marriage Matching: A Conjecture of Donald Knuth
Knoblauch, Vicki - 2007
matching medical residents with residency programs, the kidney exchange program and matching college students with on …-campus housing. The performance of the Gale-Shapley marriage matching algorithm (1962) has been studied extensively in the special …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429953
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Punish in Public
Xiao, Erte; Houser, Daniel - 2006
environments, ranging from American students facing punishment in laboratory experiments, to Israeli parents facing fines for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009441131
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Market Power in Tradable Emission Markets: A Laboratory Testbed for Emission Trading in Port Phillip Bay, Victoria
Cason, Timothy N.; Gangadharan, Lata; Duke, Charlotte - 2003
. This paperreports a testbed laboratory experiment to examine whether a dominant firm can exercise marketpower in a permit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009445935
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A Meta-Analysis of Hypothetical Bias in Stated Preference Valuation
Murphy, James J.; Allen, Geoffrey; Stevens, Thomas H.; … - 2003
Individuals are widely believed to overstate their economic valuation of a good by a factor of two or three. This paper reports the results of a meta-analysis of hypothetical bias in 28 stated preference valuation studies that report monetary willingness-to-pay and that used the same mechanism...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009467788
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Hybrid Auctions II: Experimental Evidence
Dutra, Joisa C; Menezes, Flavio - 2001
In this paper we report the results of an experiment designed to examine the properties of a hybrid auction - a Dutch … Telebras System - the government-owned Telecom holding in Brazil. We designed an experiment where individuals participate in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009451730
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Buyer Liability and Voluntary Inspections in International Greenhouse Gas Emissions Trading: A Laboratory Study
Cason, Timothy N. - 2000
This paper reports a preliminary laboratory experiment in which traders make investments to increase the reliability of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009430680
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L’IMPACT DU CAPITAL HUMAIN SUR LA PRODUCTIVITE AGRICOLE AU BURKINA FASO
Theophile, Kabore - 2010
matching utilisé habituellement pour évaluer l’impact de politique sur une population donnée a été utilisée comme méthode d … Score Matching usually used to estimate the impact of social or economic policies on target groups. By the matching method …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443809
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009466027
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475025
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Three Essays on Semiparametric Methods for the Evaluation of Social Programs.
Busso, Matias - 2008
properties of several semiparametric estimators of average treatment effects, including IPW, matching and double robust …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477099