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This document distills and synthesizes the proceedings of a workshop in which experts in the field of regulatory analysis and terrorism risk examined alternative approaches for estimating the benefits of regulations designed to reduce the risks of terrorist attacks in the United States. The workshop gave rise to several recommendations for improving the modeling and data collection that support the benefit-cost analysis of terrorism…
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The objective of this paper is to delineate a set of standards for conducting benefit-cost analyses (BCAs) of early childhood programs.
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This paper proposes a simple methodology that empirically identifies the separate effects of entry and size restrictions on aggregate productivity, and uses it to analyse the impact of a policy reform in India.
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This project addressed the lack of comparable health measures and indices across nations by developing a cross-national model for measuring health status. In applying the measures to several nations, the study found significant variability in genuine health that correlates most closely with national income.
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This project addressed the lack of comparable health measures and indices across nations by developing a cross-national model for measuring health status..
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A growing body of economic research suggests that public investment in early childhood programs may be able to lower public costs for social services by improving children's long-term welfare.
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Author comments on vote markets and decision making. No stable outcome normally exists with vote trading; the author points out flaws in James S. Coleman's social welfare function model.
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Review of a book on bargaining theory: Bargaining and Group Decision Making: Experiments in Bilateral Monopoly, by Sidney Siegel and Lawrence E. Fouraker (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1960).
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Director, Center for Latin American Social Policy; Economist; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Ph.D. in economics, University College London; M.Sc. in economics, University College London; B.A. in economics, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)
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Assistant Policy Analyst
Ph.D. candidate (M.Phil.) in policy analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School; M.P.P in public policy, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS); B.A. in political science and public administration, Peking University
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Associate Director, Forces and Resources Policy Center, RAND National Defense Research Institute; Senior Economist
Ph.D. and M.A. in economics, University of Chicago; B.A. in economics, University of California, Los Angeles
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Director, Resource Management Program, RAND Project AIR FORCE;
Senior Economist
Ph.D. and M.A. in economics, Duke University; B.A. in mathematics, Furman University
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Senior Economist
Ph.D. in management, University of California, Los Angeles
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Ph.D. and M.A. in economics, Princeton University; M.B.A. in finance, M.A. and B.A. in economics, Hebrew University
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Ph.D. in economics, Harvard University; M.A. in economics, Hebrew University; B.A. in economics, Hebrew University
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Senior Economist; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School
Ph.D. and A.M. in economics, University of Chicago; A.B. in economics, Princeton University
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Senior Research Fellow
Ph.D. in economics, Stanford University; M.A. in economics, University of Cambridge; B.Sc. in chemistry and economics, Yale University
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Assistant Policy Analyst
M.Phil. (Ph.D. candidate) in policy analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School; M.P.P. in public policy, Universit of California, Los Angeles; B.A. in literae humaniores, University of Oxford
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Senior Analyst
Ph.D. in innovation policy, University of Liverpool; M.B.A., Durham University Business School; B.A. (Hons) in history, University of Liverpool
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Senior Economist
Ph.D. in economics, Stanford University
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