The hedonic literature has established that public water bodies provide external bene…ts that are re‡ected in the value of nearby residential real estate. The literature has employed several approaches to quantify these nonmarket services. With a residential hedonic model, this paper tests whether model speci…cation a¤ects resource valuation using an actively managed reservoir in Indiana and a ...

Recommender systems that inform consumers about their likely ideal product have become the cornerstone of eCommerce platforms that sell products from competing manufacturers. Using a model of an electronic marketplace in which two competing manufacturers produce substitutable products and sell the products through a common retail platform, we study the e ect of recommender systems on the market...

Much current CBR research focuses on how to compact, rene, and augment the contents of individual case bases, in order to distill needed information into a single concise and authoritative source. However, as deployed case-based reasoning systems become increasingly prevalent, opportunities will arise for supplementing local case bases on demand, by drawing on the case bases of other CBR system...

This paper analyzes the e¤ect of federal and state maternity leave policies on female employment. We analyze if the enactment of the federal Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) di¤erentially a¤ected states that previously implemented maternity leave laws at the state level than those states which did not. Additionally, we study whether FMLA caused an increase in the female employment and labor forc...

Genome-wide data mining indicated that six genes (ncgl1031, ncgl2302, ncgl2325, ncgl2326, ncgl2922 and ncgl2953) encoding putative transport proteins are involved in uptake of various aromatic compounds that are further degraded through the beta-ketoadipate, gentisate and resorcinol pathways in Corynebacterium glutamicum. The gentisate (GenK/NCgl2922) and vanillate (VanK/NCgl2302) transporters ...

The objective of this paper is to estimate the impacts of long-and mediumterm duration in micro…nance program participation. It utilises a new, large and unique household-level panel dataset collected on 1997/98 treatment and control households, spanning about 8 years. The data enables us to identify continuing participants in the program as well as newcomers and leavers. We employ di¤erent est...

Much current CBR research focuses on how to compact, rene, and augment the contents of individual case bases, in order to distill needed information into a single concise and authoritative source. However, as deployed case-based reasoning systems become increasingly prevalent, opportunities will arise for supplementing local case bases on demand, by drawing on the case bases of other CBR system...

This paper examines the welfare consequences of social safety nets in developing economies relative to developed economies. Using panel surveys of households in Indonesia and the United States, we …nd that food consumption falls by approximately ten percent when individuals become unemployed in both countries. This …nding suggests that introducing a formal social insurance program would have sm...

Social information can provide information about the presence, state and intentions of other agents; therefore it follows that the use of social information may be of some adaptive bene t. As with all information, social information must be interpretable and relatively accurate given the situation in which it is derived. In both nature and robotics, agents learn which social information is rele...