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Does Mandatory Diversion To Drug Treatment Eliminate Racial Disparities In The Incarceration Of Drug Offenders? An Examination Of California's Prop 36, Nancy Nicosia, John Macdonald, Rosalie Pacula

Rosalie Liccardo Pacula

No abstract provided.

Empirical Evidence For Decreasing Returns To Scale In A Health Capital Model, Titus Galama, Patrick Hullegie, Meijer Erik, Sarah Outcault

Titus Galama

We estimate a health investment equation, derived from a health capital model that is an extension of the well-known Grossman model. Of particular interest is whether the health production function has constant returns to scale, as in the standard Grossman model, or decreasing returns to scale, as in the Ehrlich-Chuma model and extensions thereof. The model with decreasing returns to scale has a number of theoretically and empirically desirable characteristics that the constant returns model does not have. Although our empirical equation does not point-identify the decreasing returns to scale curvature parameter, it does allow us to test for constant …

Buying Anonymity: An Investigation Of Petroleum And Natural Gas Lease Auctions, Jennifer Winter

Jennifer Winter

Higher winning bids are associated with the use of brokers. The use of brokers is persistent and geographically concentrated.

Estimating The Credibility Of The Co-Operative Commonwealth Federation's Threat To Nationalize Oil Resources In Saskatchewan, Jennifer Winter, Herb Emery

Jennifer Winter

Expropriation in Saskatchewan did not reduce investment in exploration and development, but did reduce the price paid for mineral rights relative to Alberta.

The Utility Of Regional Peremptory Norms In International Affairs, Reza Hasmath

Reza Hasmath