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     <title>RAND Research Topic: Economic Analysis Methodology</title>
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   <title type="html">New Method for Estimating Costs of Counterfeiting Presented</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/news/press/2012/09/27.html</id>
   <published>Sep 27, 2012</published>
   <updated>Sep 27, 2012</updated>
   <summary type="html">A new method for estimating the costs of counterfeiting was published today by RAND Europe. The approach uses market data to estimate the effects of intellectual property rights infringements, such as counterfeit products, on sales of legitimate goods. 
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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">Bargaining and Group Decision Making: Experiments in Bilateral Monopoly</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19610602.html</id>
   <published>Jan 1, 1961</published>
   <updated>Jan 1, 1961</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">The Possibility of a Social Welfare Function: Comment</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19671201.html</id>
   <published>Jan 1, 1967</published>
   <updated>Jan 1, 1967</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">The Missing Theory of Variable Selection in the Economic Analysis of Tort Law</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20060036.html</id>
   <published>Jan 1, 2006</published>
   <updated>Jan 1, 2006</updated>
   <summary type="html">The Article argues that the economic analysis of tort law has yet to satisfactorily answer a critical threshold question: which of the many inputs that lead to an accident should be included in a court&apos;s liability analysis?</summary>
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   <title type="html">Internationally Comparable Health Indices</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP201000165.html</id>
   <published>Jun 1, 2010</published>
   <updated>Jun 1, 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">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>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20110041.html</id>
   <published>May 1, 2011</published>
   <updated>May 1, 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">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">Cost and Outcomes Analysis of Child Well-Being</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP50146.html</id>
   <published>Dec 1, 2011</published>
   <updated>Dec 1, 2011</updated>
   <summary type="html">This book chapter explores the use of cost and outcome measures as a complement to traditional program evaluation in assessing child well-being, especially for early childhood intervention programs.</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">Further study on the affordability of alcoholic beverages in the EU: A focus on excise duty pass-through, on- and off-trade sales, price promotions and statutory regulations</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1203.html</id>
   <published>Jun 19, 2012</published>
   <updated>Jun 19, 2012</updated>
   <summary type="html">This study examines the overall scale and trend of price promotions and discounts in some European countries and the responses of consumers and suppliers to a variety of alcohol regulations, including excise duties.</summary>
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   <title type="html">A New Approach to Measure Intellectual Property Rights Infringements</title>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/pubs/technical_reports/TR1279.html</id>
   <published>Sep 27, 2012</published>
   <updated>Sep 27, 2012</updated>
   <summary type="html">Globalization, integrated markets, and the Internet economy have contributed to the rise in IPR infringements. RAND developed a methodology based on economic theory to contribute to quantifying the scope, scale, and impact of IPR infringements, such as counterfeiting, unauthorized downloads, and piracy.</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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   <updated></updated>
   <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>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/about/people/a/an_ruopeng.html</id>
   <published></published>
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   <summary type="html">&lt;em&gt;Assistant Policy Analyst at the RAND Corporation;
Doctoral Fellow at the Pardee RAND Graduate School&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>
   <updated></updated>
   <summary type="html">&lt;em&gt;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>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/about/people/b/baldwin_laura_h.html</id>
   <published></published>
   <updated></updated>
   <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>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/about/people/b/baucells_manel.html</id>
   <published></published>
   <updated></updated>
   <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>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/about/people/b/berrebi_claude.html</id>
   <published></published>
   <updated></updated>
   <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>
   <id>http://www.rand.org/about/people/b/buchinsky_moshe.html</id>
   <published></published>
   <updated></updated>
   <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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