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Scale And Scope Effects In Public Health Delivery: Estimating Gains From Regionalization, Glen P. Mays Jun 2012

Scale And Scope Effects In Public Health Delivery: Estimating Gains From Regionalization, Glen P. Mays

Health Management and Policy Presentations

OBJECTIVES: Current approaches to health system reform under the Affordable Care Act include efforts to enhance the delivery of public health services that promote health and prevent disease and injury on a population-wide basis. The nation’s public health delivery system comprises nearly 3000 local public health agencies that vary widely in size, resources, and capabilities. Economic pressures, workforce shortages, and new national accreditation standards are leading these agencies to explore mechanisms for pooling resources and expertise across local jurisdictions to enhance delivery and improve population health. This analysis uses longitudinal observations on a national sample of local public health agencies …

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Funding Public Health: A New Iom Report On Investing In A Healthier Future, George Isham, Robert Kaplan, Glen P. Mays Jun 2012

Funding Public Health: A New Iom Report On Investing In A Healthier Future, George Isham, Robert Kaplan, Glen P. Mays

Health Management and Policy Presentations

A new Institute of Medicine report recommends establishing a national target for life expectancy and implementing new mechanisms for financing public health strategies to acheive this target.

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New Fiscal Federalism, Ishrat Husain Dr. Jun 2012

New Fiscal Federalism, Ishrat Husain Dr.

Faculty Research - Newspaper and Magazine Articles

The 7th NFC award and the 18th amendment to the constitution have brought about a fundamental structural change in the fiscal affairs of Pakistan. The federal government is no longer the main driver of fiscal policy. Power and resources have shifted, rightly so, to the provinces. The share of the federal government in the net proceeds of the divisible pool has come down to 42.5 percent while that of the provinces has gone up to 57.5 percent. Adding straight transfers, grants/ subventions and development loans to the provinces pushes this share further up.

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An Analysis Of The Employment Effects Of The Washington High Technology Business And Occupation (B&O) Tax Credit: Technical Report, Timothy J. Bartik, Kevin Hollenbeck Jun 2012

An Analysis Of The Employment Effects Of The Washington High Technology Business And Occupation (B&O) Tax Credit: Technical Report, Timothy J. Bartik, Kevin Hollenbeck

Upjohn Institute Working Papers

This paper estimates the effects of an R&D tax credit in the state of Washington on job creation. The research uses micro-data on the job creation and tax credits received by individual firms in the state of Washington from 2004 to 2009. We correct for the endogeneity of R&D tax credits received by individual firms by using instrumental variables based in part on national industry factor shares for R&D. We estimate that this tax credit created jobs, but at a high cost. The cost per job-year created is estimated to be between $40,000 and $50,000. The credit was so high …

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Expanding The Evidence Base For Accreditation And Qi: Progress In Practice-Based Research Networks, Glen P. Mays Jun 2012

Expanding The Evidence Base For Accreditation And Qi: Progress In Practice-Based Research Networks, Glen P. Mays

Health Management and Policy Presentations

Studies that examine the implementation and impact of quality improvement strategies in public health are underway through the Public Health Practice-Based Research Networks.

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South Dakota Agricultural Land Market Factors, Burton Pflueger, Larry Janssen Jun 2012

South Dakota Agricultural Land Market Factors, Burton Pflueger, Larry Janssen

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.

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Education And Local Economic Development: Why Skills Matter, How We're Doing, And Leverage Points For Change, Timothy J. Bartik Jun 2012

Education And Local Economic Development: Why Skills Matter, How We're Doing, And Leverage Points For Change, Timothy J. Bartik

Presentations

No abstract provided.

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[Unemployment Insurance: The Path Back To Work]: Testimony Before The Senate Finance Committee, Stephen A. Wandner Jun 2012

[Unemployment Insurance: The Path Back To Work]: Testimony Before The Senate Finance Committee, Stephen A. Wandner

Testimonies

No abstract provided.

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Estimating Medical Cost Offsets Attributable To Public Health Spending, Glen P. Mays Jun 2012

Estimating Medical Cost Offsets Attributable To Public Health Spending, Glen P. Mays

Health Management and Policy Presentations

BACKGROUND: Policy strategies for reforming the U.S. health care system to control costs and improve health outcomes include the possibility of expanded support for public health activities that are designed to prevent disease and promote health on a population-wide basis. These activities include efforts to monitor and report on community health status, investigate and control disease outbreaks, educate the public about health risks and prevention strategies, develop and enforce laws and regulations to protect health, and inspect and assure the safety and quality of water, food, air and other resources necessary for health. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act …

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Workplace Deviance And Recession, Aniruddha Bagchi Jun 2012

Workplace Deviance And Recession, Aniruddha Bagchi

Faculty Articles

No abstract provided.

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Technology In The Aid Of Delivering Economic Content To Teachers: Virtual Economics V. 3, John R. Swinton, Benjamin Scafidi Jun 2012

Technology In The Aid Of Delivering Economic Content To Teachers: Virtual Economics V. 3, John R. Swinton, Benjamin Scafidi

Faculty Articles

We examine the impact on student achievement of a face-to-face teacher workshop that also provides economics instructors with access to an electronic library of instructional and reference material for their economics classroom—Virtual Economics v. 3 (VE3), offered by the Council for Economic Education. Based on evidence using student and teacher-level administrative data from the Georgia Department of Education and controlling for students’ prior achievement in mathematics, we find evidence that the VE3 workshop experience increases student achievement in high school economics. Our difference-in-differences estimates suggest that teacher participation in the VE3 workshop increases student achievement by 0.061 standard deviations on …

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South Dakota Agricultural Land Cash Rent Values: 2012, Burton Pflueger, Larry Janssen Jun 2012

South Dakota Agricultural Land Cash Rent Values: 2012, Burton Pflueger, Larry Janssen

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.

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Human Resource Development: Cultivate New Forces For Future Cooperation, Ishrat Husain Dr. Jun 2012

Human Resource Development: Cultivate New Forces For Future Cooperation, Ishrat Husain Dr.

Faculty Research - Talks, Speeches, & Discourse

It is now well established that the driver of economic growth in the 21st Century will be Knowledge economy. The sustenance and strength of this economy, in turn, will depend upon the quality of human resources a country possesses. Countries that are able to invest in equipping their younger population in acquiring, accumulating the know-how about new ways of doing things and applying this know-how to solve world problems will forge ahead. The name of the game in the future is going to be competition. Just like the firms compete for shares in their national markets of goods and services …

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Industrial Policy And Renewable Energy: Trade Conflicts, Robert J. Carbaugh, Max St. Brown Jun 2012

Industrial Policy And Renewable Energy: Trade Conflicts, Robert J. Carbaugh, Max St. Brown

All Faculty Scholarship for the College of Business

Governments use industrial policy to promote the development of new industries and the creation and adoption of new technologies. Such policy involves subsidies granted to producers and consumers, usually for the purpose of correcting a market failure. Concerning renewable energies such as wind energy and solar energy, China, the United States, and the European Union provide extensive support to producers and consumers. This support has resulted in trade frictions among these nations. This paper discusses the relationship between industrial policy and trade disputes in renewable energy.

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Green Infrastructure Resource Directory, New England Environmental Finance Center Jun 2012

Green Infrastructure Resource Directory, New England Environmental Finance Center

Sustainable Communities Capacity Building

Green infrastructure is an approach for managing stormwater that uses vegetation and soils to capture and treat rainwater where it falls. Unlike single-purpose gray infrastructure, green infrastructure realizes multiple benefits at once, including flood mitigation, improved water and air quality, community beautification, provision of recreational opportunities, and energy and cost savings. This resource directory is intended to help communities design, implement, fund, and monitor green infrastructure practices and programs. It was compiled by the Environmental Finance Center Network through the Capacity Building for Sustainable Communities program funded by U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. …

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The Business Cycle And Impacts Of Economic News On Financial Markets, Esin Cakan Jun 2012

The Business Cycle And Impacts Of Economic News On Financial Markets, Esin Cakan

Economics & Business Analytics Faculty Publications

By jointly modeling returns and volatilities, we find that unemployment news has no significant impact on U.S. stock market returns, but instead on stock market volatility. There is also a significantly positive relation between the long-term bond return and unemployment news during economic expansions, indicating that U.S. government bonds might be a hedge against unemployment news. Inflation news affects both stock and bond market returns negatively during expansions. Both unemployment and inflation news surprises also have more impact on volatility during economic recessions than during expansions.

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Are Us Economic Variables Useful For Chinese Stock Market Forecasts?, Singapore Management University Jun 2012

Are Us Economic Variables Useful For Chinese Stock Market Forecasts?, Singapore Management University

Perspectives@SMU

How does the US economy affect China’s? While much had been written about the decoupling between developed and the emerging economies, one scholar has put forward a contrarian view.

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Three Essays On The Quality Of Marriage, Jose V. Gallegos Jun 2012

Three Essays On The Quality Of Marriage, Jose V. Gallegos

Economics - Dissertations

In these essays I focus on issues that affect the quality of marriage. First, I analyze the effect of the Chilean divorce law on a woman's decision of when to have the first child. Using survival analysis, I find that the divorce law has had a positive effect on the hazard for highly-educated women. This result suggests that highly-educated women may have waited to have the first child until they were able to afford the additional costs that a child may bring to a divorce process in case the couple decided to separate. In the second essay I analyze the …

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Rhode Island Current Conditions Index — June 2012, Leonard Lardaro Jun 2012

Rhode Island Current Conditions Index — June 2012, Leonard Lardaro

The Rhode Island Current Conditions Index

No abstract provided.

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General Motors Company: Restructured To Rediscover American Innovation, Jeffrey S. Harrison, Stefan Michalski, Joel Winbigler, Trevor Wind Jun 2012

General Motors Company: Restructured To Rediscover American Innovation, Jeffrey S. Harrison, Stefan Michalski, Joel Winbigler, Trevor Wind

Robins Case Network

Many analysts predicted that General Motors was not salvageable. However, after a government-backed restructuring, the company seems to be doing much better. The big question is whether the turnaround is sustainable. The company is investing heavily in technology in an effort to continue its record of success. This case examines GM up to its reorganization and also details its current strategies.

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Social Capital, Human Capital, And Economic Well-Being In The Knowledge Economy: Results From Canada's General Social Survey, Robert D. Weaver, Nazim Habibov Jun 2012

Social Capital, Human Capital, And Economic Well-Being In The Knowledge Economy: Results From Canada's General Social Survey, Robert D. Weaver, Nazim Habibov

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

Beginning in the mid-1990s, the Canadian welfare state's devolutionary transformation ushered in an era which potentially increased the importance of social capital and human capital as mechanisms for promoting socio-economic advancement. In this study, the authors analyze data from Canada's General Social Survey to assess how social capital and human capital influence the reported incomes of the Canadian population. The primaryfindings were that both social and human capital influenced income and that human capital had a larger effect on economic mobility than did social capital. The implications the study's findings have for policy and programmatic interventions within the 21st century …

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Neoliberalism, Piven And Cloward's Bargaining Theory, And Wages In The United States, 1965-2006, Thomas W. Volscho Jun 2012

Neoliberalism, Piven And Cloward's Bargaining Theory, And Wages In The United States, 1965-2006, Thomas W. Volscho

The Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare

The political economy of the United States during the last thirty years has been described as neoliberal. Part of the neoliberal turn involves reducing or eliminating income support programs such as AFDC/TANF, waging war against organized labor, and increasingly conservative (i.e., neoliberal) public policies. Following an analysis by Lewis (2001) which showed that wages increased in response to higher average monthly AFDC payments, I update and expand this test of Piven and Cloward's bargaining power theory of wages by looking at other factors which may influence worker bargaining power: unions, interest rates, policy liberalism, and economic growth. I use time-series …

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Government Policies, Smuggling, And The Informal Sector, Stephen S. Golub Jun 2012

Government Policies, Smuggling, And The Informal Sector, Stephen S. Golub

Economics Faculty Works

No abstract provided.

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The Financing Of A Public Utility, Eric Smith, Martin Shubik Jun 2012

The Financing Of A Public Utility, Eric Smith, Martin Shubik

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

The interaction of capital stock with overlapping generations is investigated where the time structures of human capital and other physical capital does not match. We consider the economies with either gold or fiat as the outside money and consider the financing problems that appear in the financing of capital stock. The complexity of the underlying physical structure combined with concern for efficiency and equity help to determine the financial structure.

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How Should The Fed Report Uncertainty?, Ray C. Fair Jun 2012

How Should The Fed Report Uncertainty?, Ray C. Fair

Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers

In January 2012 the Fed began reporting ranges of its economic forecasts. The ranges, however, measure differences of opinion, not variances of economic forecasts. This paper discusses what the Fed could report in a world in which it used a single macroeconometric model to make its forecasts and guide its policies. Suggestions are then made as to what might be feasible for the Fed to report given that it is unlikely to be willing to commit to a single model.

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An Alternative To Temporary Staffing: Considerations For Workforce Practitioners, Linda Kato, Françoise Carré, Laura E. Johnson, Deena Schwartz Jun 2012

An Alternative To Temporary Staffing: Considerations For Workforce Practitioners, Linda Kato, Françoise Carré, Laura E. Johnson, Deena Schwartz

Center for Social Policy Publications

As the national economy inches toward recovery, risk-averse employers are increasingly turning to temporary workers to fill their hiring gaps. In fact, the temporary staffing industry has been a fixture of the US economy for decades. But the industry added a striking 557,000 jobs from June 2009 to November 2011 — more than half of the jobs created during that period. Growth is likely to continue: A 2011 McKinsey survey of 2,000 firms of differing sizes and across various sectors found that more than a third foresaw their companies increasing their use of temporary workers over the next five years. …

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Measuring And Modeling Investment Behavior In A Social Network, Alex Dusenbery Jun 2012

Measuring And Modeling Investment Behavior In A Social Network, Alex Dusenbery

Graduate Masters Theses

Over the past decade, a great deal of research has been done on the dynamics of complex networks, particularly in the realm of social networks. As online social networks (Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.) have exploded in popularity, a deluge of data has become available to researchers, providing detailed histories of online social interaction. A growing number of small-scale online networks aimed at certain niche groups of users have also sprouted up, providing a richer context for the study of social network dynamics. One such network is Currensee, which provides a social platform for investors in the foreign exchange market. Through the …

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Stochastic Cost Inefficiency Estimates And Rankings Of Public And Private Research And Doctoral Granting Universities, G. Thomas Sav Jun 2012

Stochastic Cost Inefficiency Estimates And Rankings Of Public And Private Research And Doctoral Granting Universities, G. Thomas Sav

Economics Faculty Publications

Stochastic frontier cost and inefficiency estimates are provided for research and doctoral granting universities in the U.S. Separate sector estimates are produced for public and private non-profit universities. Panel data spanning four academic years, 2005-2009, is used to estimate underlying cost structures. Inefficiency is modeled as depending on institutionally specific environmental factors. Results indicate that public universities are on average more efficient than their private counterparts. The latter exhibit greater variability and when evaluated at the median inefficiencies there does not appear to be any statistically significant difference. Time varying inefficiency estimates point to public sector efficiency gains but private …

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Demand For Foreign Exchange Reserves In Nigeria: A Cointegration Approach, Nkenchor N. Igue, Toyin S. Ogunleye Jun 2012

Demand For Foreign Exchange Reserves In Nigeria: A Cointegration Approach, Nkenchor N. Igue, Toyin S. Ogunleye

Economic and Financial Review

There have been significant accretions to foreign exchange reserves over the last decade in Nigeria, especially since the return to democratic governance in 1999. The study tries to find out the underlying factors driving the demand for reserves by the monetary authority. To estimate the demand for foreign exchange reserves in Nigeria, Johansen cointegration and error correction methodology was utilized for the period 1985:Q 1-20I0:O4. The results show that the long-run demand for foreign exchange reserves in Nigeria is driven by economic size, capital account vulnerability, exchange rate flexibility and opportunity cost. In the short-run, the major determinant of demand …

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Iran-The Chronicles Of The Subsidy Reform: A Review., Jibrin Musa Jun 2012

Iran-The Chronicles Of The Subsidy Reform: A Review., Jibrin Musa

Economic and Financial Review

The paper re-examines the planning and early implementation of energy subsidy reform officially referred to as "Targeted Subsidies Reform" in lran. The paper also evaluates the sequencing of the arrangement and concludes by reviewing the main challenges for the restoration of macroeconomic stability and the efficient and effective functioning of the corporate sector.

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