The mandatory seat belt law is among the most recent of a long list of highway and vehicle safety regulations aimed at reducing the risk of injury in motor vehicle accidents. In this article the effects of this law on seat belt use, on the number of accidents, and on the number of fatal and...

Training in quantitative methods is seen as essential for policy analysts, public administrators, and public managers if they are to make cogent and informed data-based arguments. If our objective is to help students and future practitioners identify credible evidence, to make sense of that...

Presents an approach for evaluating the number of vendors to employ in a procurement situation using multi‐objective programming (MOP) and data envelopment analysis (DEA). The approach advocates developing vendor‐order quantity solutions (referred to as supervendors) using MOP and then...