Neighborhood Poverty and 9-1-1 Ambulance Response Time

Section 1 : Poverty Poverty and economic growth

Reducing insecurity: The principal objective of income transfers? Tax treatment of families in modern industrial countries: The role of the NIT

Ambulance routing in disaster response scenario considering different types of ambulances and semi soft time windows

This paper studies the ambulance routing problem (ARP) in disaster situations when a large number of injured people from various locations require receiving treatments and medical aids. In such circumstances, many people summoning the ambulances but the capacity and number of emergency vehicles are not sufficient to visit all the patients at the same time. Therefore, a pivotal issue is to manag...

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Thieves, Thugs, and Neighborhood Poverty

Thieves, Thugs, and Neighborhood Poverty This paper develops a model of crime analyzing how such behavior is associated with individual and neighborhood poverty. The model shows that even under relatively minimal assumptions, a connection between individual poverty and both property and violent crimes will arise, and moreover, “neighborhood” effects can develop, but will differ substantially in...

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