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Showing 1 to 20 of 80 for “"Social cost"”.
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The social cost of low wages
… living wage laws. Additionally, measuring the cost of supporting poor working families through the use of public subsidies can serve to measure the magnitude of externalities. The purpose of this thesis is to expand the analytical scope of living wage research by illustrating the importance of …
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Marginal social cost auctions for congested airport facilities
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Operations Research Center, 2002.
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Investing (in) equity : how can urban development internalize social cost?
This thesis recognizes the social costs created by privately driven urban development while also acknowledging cities' fiscal dependence on local property taxes. This study is based on the premise that equitable spatial distribution of affordable housing can alter existing social perceptions and …
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A Total Social Cost Approach to Public Transport Planning in South Africa
… has a significant role in addressing economic, social and environmental issues resulting from motorised mobility. Motorised travel, including that offered by public transport, has positive and negative impacts. It is particularly true in the case of public transport that the magnitude of the …
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The Social Cost of Fiscal Federalism and the Depletion of China’s Native Forests
… We develop a framework for assessing the social cost of state forest enterprise deforestation. We first develop a two-principal, one-agent model that fits the federalistic organization state forests, in that state forest managers make (potentially hidden) decisions under influence of …
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Social cost benefit analysis of projects of a South African DFI, the Industrial Development Corporation
The need for social cost benefit analysis for appraising industrial projects by development finance institutions and developing economies has been seen to being relevant over the years and even since the 1960s. As such major global organisations, namely the United Nations Industrial Development …
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Evaluation of health programs: application of social cost benefit analysis in the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme listing of Australia
The integration of economics and moral philosophy, which provides a new approach to evaluation and analysis of economic activities, is increasing within the literature. It is argued in this thesis that valuation and analysis in health economics and health programs (normative health economics) …
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Environmental/social cost-benefit analysis : the integration of sustainability : the cases of the Narmada Valley Project and the Three Gorges Dam
… review the basic tenets of the environmental/social cost-benefit analysis which has had the most influence in the arena of developmentalism. Despite the attraction of the model and its theoretical acceptability to international and often national development procedures, in practice, …
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Social-Economic Benefits of Payment for Environmental Services in Yaque del Norte Watershed, Dominican Republic
This research analyzes private and social costs of forest conservation in Yaque del Norte watershed, DR. It calculates private costs as average annual income from farming activities and social costs as the externalities from erosion and CO2 emissions. Social cost estimates are based on the …
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Air pollution, avoidance behaviors, and neglected social costs : evidence from outdoor leisure and commuting behaviors
The social cost of air pollution depends on both its biophysical impacts on health and productivity and the dynamic avoidance behaviors citizens proactively adopt. The literature has almost exclusively focused on the direct impacts, and the limited research looking into the avoidance behaviors has …
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Value of information for targeting agro-pollution control: a case study of the lower Susquehanna watershed
Targeting farms with low costs of reducing agro-pollution has been suggested as a means to reduce control costs. The potential to use better information to reduce costs of achieving a regulatory performance standard was evaluated. Using the Lower Susquehanna watershed as a case study, three …
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On the effect and value of information in Bayesian routing games
… the problem of estimating individual and social value of information in routing games. We propose a Bayesian congestion game that accounts for the heterogeneity in the commuters' access to information about traffic incidents. The model divides the population of commuters into two …
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The social costs of paper and electronic payments
… production, and collection of paper checks is a costly process involving substantial societal resources. The most recent estimates of the total resources used in check processing were put forth in a 1987 paper by David B. Humphrey and Allen Berger. This paper updates the calculation of the total …
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Data-Centric Situational Awareness and Management in Intelligent Power Systems
… in the transmission/distribution grids and social benefits augmentation problem at the distribution-customer lever, respectively.</p> <p>To address the security problem in the transmission/distribution grids utilizing big data, the first approach provides a fault analysis solution based on …
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Analysis of non-unique solutions in mean field games
… MFG map. There is a second concept investigated, social cost, which is the average accumulated cost per player. But as is shown, the social cost is not a good indicator of which MFG solution approximates large population trajectories. A set, called the bifurcation set, is defined by there being …
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Value of heterogeneous information in stochastically congestible facilities
… on traffic equilibria and the resulting travel costs (both individual and social) when commuters make departure time choices to cross an unreliable bottleneck link. Increasing adoption and improved predictive abilities of Traveler Information Systems (TIS) enable commuters to plan their trips; …
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Reducing future bushfire risk : optimal strategies for fuel load reduction
… Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Life Cycle Costing (LCC) to evaluate three fuel load reduction strategies: Fuel Reduction Burning (FRB), Mechanical Fuel Load Reduction (MFLR), and their combination. The DSS quantifies environmental impacts (e.g., greenhouse gas and PM2.5 emissions), economic …
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The Economic Returns of Decarbonizing the Global Power Sector
… plants across 156 countries, I quantify both costs and benefits through 2035 and 2050, globally and for countries. Themethodology extends the Coasian approach to all fossil fuels in electricity generation. The findings challenge the widespread belief that just climate action is too expensive. …
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Essays in Game Theory and Forest Economics
… a two-principal, one-agent model to estimate the social cost of fiscal federalism in China's northeast native forests. China's key forested region is located in the northeast and consists of state forest enterprises which manage forest harvesting and reforestation. Deforestation is a major problem …
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Operationalizing the spatial influence of the risk factors behind the open-air drug markets in Durham region
The social cost of illegal drugs has reached a very high point both in Canada and around the world. The efforts to control the global flow of illegal drugs have not achieved to compensate these costs. This thesis examines the relatively neglected approach of controlling open-air drug markets in an …
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