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Notwithstanding the general acceptance of the value of statistical life (VSL) estimates for policy assessment purposes, several important unresolved issues remain. First, the results from revealed preference studies are systematically higher than those from stated preference studies, potentially...
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Economic research has developed estimates of the heterogeneity of the value of statistical life (VSL) on dimensions …
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Recent attention to the causal identification of spending impacts provides improved estimates of spending outcomes in a variety of circumstances, but the estimates are substantially different across studies. Half of the variation in estimated funding impact on test scores and over three-quarters...
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The considerable literature on the value of a statistical life (VSL) documents the wage-mortality risk tradeoffs for the working population. Regulatory analyses often must monetize risks to populations at the tails of the age distribution. Because of the longer life expectancy for children,...
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Contrary to private enterprises, public enterprises can be unaware of the impact of their performance when providing services to the public. This is often the case when a small array of choices is in citizens’ hands or coercion is the only possibility and a public service must be received and...
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This paper presents the findings of an evaluation of public-private partnership (PPP) projects financed by the EIB. The … evaluation, carried out by Operations Evaluation of the EIB, suggests that EIB involvement can add financial and non … finding of the evaluation is that, in reality, the choice was not so much between a PPP and traditional public procurement, as …
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This study assesses the relative efficiency of public library service, by examining the relationship between library inputs and library outputs in multi-outlet library systems.
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In this paper, we review the main issues under discussion in the field of economics of education, with a special focus on Latin America. We seek to organize the debate about educational policies by showing how these policies respond to different models based on different assumptions and...
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academic evaluation of production of statistical data and research is necessary, not only for pure academic work, but also for … Auftragsforschung" ist eine Evaluation deren akademischer Qualität sinnvoll. …In Germany there are several research institutes for empirical economic and social research which are in major part …
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research focuses on athletic success to quantify advertising effect strength. Although athletic success likely generates …
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