Returns to Rangelands

Rangelands in Arid Ecosystem

Returns to Venture Capital

The returns to private equity investment have become a vexed issue, attracting widespread debate in the media, government, and among researchers. Much of the attention has focused on later-stage buyout investments, but there is a general move towards greater transparency and disclosure of the returns to both early and late-stage venture capital (VC) investments. Shortcomings in the information ...

Rall Returns to NIEHS

An input-oriented radial measure for returns to scale aggregation.

In production theory, it is necessary to be capable of predicting the production func- tion’s long-run behaviors. Hereof, returns to scale is a helpful concept. Returns to scale describes the reaction of a production function to the proportionally scaling all its input variables. In this regard, Data envelopment analysis (DEA) provides a com- prehensive framework for returns to scale evaluation...

The Returns to Skill

Since 1975, an increase in the return to years of schooling, in the percentage of the labor force that is skilled, and in the variance of wage income within skill categories have characterized the U.S. labor market. While the first two facts point towards an increase in the demand for skilled labor, the third fact establishes that this increase in demand has not been uniform for all members of ...