In Canada, a policy aiming at helping single parents on social assistance become selfreliantwas implemented on an experimental basis. The Self-Sufficiency Entry Effects Demonstrationrandomly selected a sample of 4,134 single parents who had applied for welfare betweenJanuary 1994 and March 1995....

This paper presents a model of an optimal anti-drug law enforcement policy,whose objective is the reduction of drug-related social cost, including the net costof law enforcement, the social harm, and the surplus of agents. We consider avertically organized distribution system with two levels:...

This paper provides a uni¯ed statistical framework for the analysis of distortion riskmeasures (DRM) and of their sensitivities with respect to parameters representing riskaversion and/or pessimism. We derive the general formula for calculating the functionalasymptotic distribution of the...

A general framework is proposed for (auto)regression nonparametric estimationof recurrent time series in a class of Hilbert Markov processes with a Lipschitzconditional mean. This includes various nonstationarities by relaxing usual dependenceassumptions as mixing or ergodicity, which are...