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Showing 1 to 20 of 194 for “"policy design"”.
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Essays on Economic Policy Design
… comprises three chapters, each studying the design of a different economic policy. The first chapter proposes a new industrial policy designed to prevent coordination failures. The second chapter characterizes the design of efficient economic sanctions. The third chapter studies income …
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Scheduling Policy Design using Stochastic Dynamic Programming
Scheduling policies for open soft real-time systems must be able to balance the competing concerns of meeting their objectives under exceptional conditions while achieving good performance in the average case. Balancing these concerns requires modeling strategies that represent the range of …
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Essays on learning, social influence and economic policy design
Dissertation im Cotutelle-Verfahren: Universität Bielefeld/Universiteit van Amsterdam
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Stakeholder-assisted modeling and policy design for engineering systems
… for engineering systems with brilliant technical designs that do not address the larger context of the broader social goals. One of the fears of experts is that the involvement of stakeholders will result in technical solutions that are of poor quality. The hypothesis of this research is that an …
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Explaining Multiculturalism's Survival: Electoral Outcomes, Policy Design, and Veto Players
… politics is affected by electoral outcomes, by policy design and by the actions of critical veto players. More precisely, it argues that multiculturalism is more likely to survive an ideological shift to the right in national level politics when (1) parties of the political right secure enough …
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The Cost of Child Support: Policy Design and Father Identity
<p>Child support policy is one of the key forces in the lives of families in the U.S., where 1 in 4 children and half of African American children live apart from their fathers (Carlson et al., 2017; Grall, 2020; U.S. Census Bureau, 2014). Most unmarried fathers of newborns express a strong desire …
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Bureaucratic Inequality: How Administrative Processes and Policy Design Shape Housing Outcomes
… of Income anti-Discrimination (SOI) policies—a policy intended to bolster the Housing Choice Voucher (HCV) program, a kind of low-income rental assistance. Intended to desegregate neighborhoods by providing a wider array of housing to choose from on the private market, the HCV program faces …
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Three essays on conservation: policy design, risk management and impact evaluation
… tools to address pressing issues associated with designing and managing conservation programs and evaluating the effectiveness of those programs. In the first essay, I derive the levels of policy instruments such as lump sum payments and annual subsidies that are sufficient to forestall conversion …
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Informing Public Health Policy Design and Operations with Analytics: Methods and Applications
… and noisy data into timely and actionable policy insights. These challenges are particularly pronounced when conventional modeling tools fall short, for instance, in settings where health risks arise from infection propagation in intricate supply chains, rapidly mutating pathogens, or …
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Policy design and complexity: community relations policy in Northern Ireland since The Agreement
… an original contribution to the knowledge of policy design and implementation in complex environments by linking it to an examination of evolving government strategy on community relations in Northern Ireland. Complexity theory is used for the first time to conduct an analysis of the most …
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Policy design tool for managing indoor residential water demand in water-scarce regions
… consumers’ participatory actions, leaving policy makers with unexpected outcomes from their demand management plans. In order to overcome this challenge and enable policy makers to understand the complex interactions between water consumers, a comprehensive tool is needed to account for the …
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Climate policy design : interactions among carbon dioxide, methane, and urban air pollution constraints
… approach, using the MIT Emissions Prediction and Policy Analysis model, the Integrated Global Systems Model, and political analysis methods. The thesis explores three cases. The first case addresses stabilization, the ultimate objective of Article 2 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate …
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A dynamic framework for transportation policy design : the case of the Boston Olympics
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 1994.
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Potential housing bubble with Chinese characteristics : analysis and policy design through an operational model
This thesis analyzes the potential housing bubble in the Chinese urban housing market. Using an operational model built on system dynamics (SD), it explores the unique housing market structures, information flows, key agents and their decision-making processes, and the system constraints that may …
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How to Attain Sustainable Education in Sierra Leone: A Policy Design For Sanda Tendaren Chiefdom
<p>Socioeconomic inequalities affect the access to affordable and sustainable education in Sierra Leone: Sanda Tendaren Chiefdom. Education is a crucial part of the chiefdom's development. It has a direct affect on the living standards of the citizens of the chiefdom and a subpar system can …
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The effects of interactions between federal and state climate policies : implications for federal climate policy design
In the absence of a federal policy to cap greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions many states are moving forward with their own initiatives, which currently range from announcements of commitments to reduce greenhouse gases to a regional multi-state cap-and-trade program slated to begin in 2009. As …
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Energy production, distribution, and pollution controls: Combining engineering and economic analysis to enhance efficiency and policy design
… with economic analysis to improve efficiency or policy design within energy markets. ^ The first paper combines a chemical engineering plant design model with an economic assessment of product enhancements within an ethanol production facility. While a new chemical process is shown to achieve …
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Housing policy, design, and struggle: The colonial production of space of Israel/Palestine, one new city at a time
Housing policy and housing design have a long history as instruments of colonial domination in Israel and as strategies for shaping the Jewish state as such. This thesis examines how a housing crisis framework, including local struggles for the right to housing, may be utilised by the Israeli …
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