How effective are trading pauses?

How Effective are Emission Taxes

*Ishikawa: Hitotsubashi University, Kunitachi, Tokyo 186-8601, Japan. Fax: 81-42-580-8195; E-mail: [email protected]. Kuroda: Nagoya Gakuin University, Seto, Aichi 480-1298, Japan. Phone: 81-561-42-0350; E-mail: [email protected]. We are grateful to an anonymous referee, seminar participants at Nagoya Gakuin University and RIETI and the participants of Kobe COE One-Day Conference on Labor M...

How Effective Are Institutional Reforms?

How Effective are the Non-monetary Components

Poverty Practice, Bureau for Development Policy, UNDP Esplanada dos Ministérios, Bloco O, 7o andar 70052-900 Brasilia, DF Brazil The views expressed in this page are the authors’ and not necessarily those of the United Nations Development Programme or the Government of Brazil. E-mail: [email protected] URL: www.ipc-undp.org Telephone: +55 61 2105 5000 The International Policy Centre for Inclusiv...

How Effective Are Military Academy Admission Standards?

The U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA), the U.S. Military Academy (USMA), and the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA) provide undergraduate education and training for students who will become commissioned officers in the Armed Forces. Like all institutions of higher education, military academies rely on a set of admission criteria, but beyond that, they are particularly concerned about the outcomes of those ...

Statistical linkage keys: How effective are they?

Existing measures of statistical linkage keys (SLKs) have usually focussed on how well a key represents the source population and on the extent of duplication ie multiple keys for one individual as well as multiple individuals sharing the same key. We really need to know whether the analysis of data linked by deterministic matching of SLKs leads to signifi cantly different conclusions than woul...