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     <title>RAND Research Topic: Economic Analysis Methodology</title>
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   <title type="html">Assessing the Benefits of U.S. Customs and Border Protection Regulatory Actions to Reduce Terrorism Risks</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/conf_proceedings/CF301.html</id>
   <published>Apr 16, 2012</published>
   <updated>Apr 16, 2012</updated>
   <summary type="html">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 security regulations.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Toward Standardization of Benefit-Cost Analysis of Early Childhood Interventions</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20120029.html</id>
   <published>Jan 1, 2012</published>
   <updated>Jan 1, 2012</updated>
   <summary type="html">The objective of this paper is to delineate a set of standards for conducting benefit-cost analyses (BCAs) of early childhood programs.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Identifying the Aggregate Productivity Effects of Entry and Size Restrictions: An Empirical Analysis of License Reform in India</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201100274.html</id>
   <published>May 1, 2011</published>
   <updated>May 1, 2011</updated>
   <summary type="html">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.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Internationally Comparable Health Indices</title>
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   <published>Apr 30, 2011</published>
   <updated>Apr 30, 2011</updated>
   <summary type="html">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.</summary>
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   <title type="html">Internationally Comparable Health Indices</title>
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   <published>May 31, 2010</published>
   <updated>May 31, 2010</updated>
   <summary type="html">This project addressed the lack of comparable health measures and indices across nations by developing a cross-national model for measuring health status..   </summary>
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   <title type="html">What Does Economics Tell Us About Early Childhood Policy?</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/occasional_papers/OP227.html</id>
   <published>May 12, 2008</published>
   <updated>May 12, 2008</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;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&apos;s long-term welfare.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">The Possibility of a Social Welfare Function: Comment</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19671201.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1966</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1966</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;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&apos;s social welfare function model.&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">Bargaining and Group Decision Making: Experiments in Bilateral Monopoly</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19610602.html</id>
   <published>Dec 31, 1960</published>
   <updated>Dec 31, 1960</updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;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).&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
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   <title type="html">Emma Aguila</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/about/people/a/aguila_emma.html</id>
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   <summary type="html">&lt;em&gt;Director, Center for Latin American Social Policy; Economist; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ph.D. in economics, University College London; M.Sc. in economics, University College London; B.A. in economics, Instituto Tecnol&amp;oacute;gico Aut&amp;oacute;nomo de M&amp;eacute;xico (ITAM)</summary>
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   <title type="html">Ruopeng An</title>
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   <summary type="html">&lt;em&gt;Assistant Policy Analyst&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;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</summary>
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   <title type="html">Beth J. Asch</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/about/people/a/asch_beth_j.html</id>
   <published></published>
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   <summary type="html">&lt;em&gt;Associate Director, Forces and Resources Policy Center, RAND National Defense Research Institute; Senior Economist&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ph.D. and M.A. in economics, University of Chicago; B.A. in economics, University of California, Los Angeles</summary>
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   <title type="html">Laura H. Baldwin</title>
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   <summary type="html">&lt;em&gt;Director, Resource Management Program, RAND Project AIR FORCE;
Senior Economist&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ph.D. and M.A. in economics, Duke University; B.A. in mathematics, Furman University</summary>
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   <title type="html">Manel Baucells</title>
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   <published></published>
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   <summary type="html">&lt;em&gt;Senior Economist&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ph.D. in management, University of California, Los Angeles</summary>
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   <title type="html">Claude Berrebi</title>
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   <summary type="html">&lt;em&gt;Economist&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ph.D. and M.A. in economics, Princeton University; M.B.A. in finance, M.A. and B.A. in economics, Hebrew University</summary>
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   <title type="html">Moshe Buchinsky</title>
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   <summary type="html">&lt;em&gt;Adjunct&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ph.D. in economics, Harvard University; M.A. in economics, Hebrew University; B.A. in economics, Hebrew University</summary>
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   <title type="html">Frank Camm</title>
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   <summary type="html">&lt;em&gt;Senior Economist; Professor, Pardee RAND Graduate School&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ph.D. and A.M. in economics, University of Chicago; A.B. in economics, Princeton University</summary>
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   <title type="html">Jonathan Cave</title>
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   <summary type="html">&lt;em&gt;Senior Research Fellow&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ph.D. in economics, Stanford University; M.A. in economics, University of Cambridge; B.Sc. in chemistry and economics, Yale University</summary>
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   <title type="html">Jack Clift</title>
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   <summary type="html">&lt;em&gt;Assistant Policy Analyst&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;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</summary>
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   <title type="html">James Derbyshire</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/about/people/d/derbyshire_james.html</id>
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   <summary type="html">&lt;em&gt;Senior Analyst&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ph.D. in innovation policy, University of Liverpool; M.B.A., Durham University Business School; B.A. (Hons) in history, University of Liverpool</summary>
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   <title type="html">Andrew W. Dick</title>
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   <summary type="html">&lt;em&gt;Senior Economist&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ph.D. in economics, Stanford University</summary>
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