Numerous factors and competing interests shape policymaking and budget allocation for health and health systems. In particular, the values and outcomes prioritized by policymakers have important implications for health spending and the impacts they have on populations and countries. Based on Harvard’s Ministerial Leadership Program, this article provides an overarching and integrative framework...

Budget constraints arise in many computer vision problems. Computational costs limit many automated recognition systems while crowdsourced systems are hindered by monetary costs. We leverage wide variability in image complexity and learn adaptive model selection policies. Our learnt policy maximizes performance under average budget constraints by selecting “cheap” models for low complexity inst...

We demonstrate the existence of an optimal, individually rational, and incentive compatible selling mechanism for a multiproduct monopolist facing a market populated by consumers with budget constraints. Our main contribution is to show via examples and our existence result that, in general, when facing consumers with budget constraints the monopolist is able to maximize profits over the set of...

being observed frequently that projects cannot achieve to their plan duration and their budget. utilizing retrospective method is one of the reasons for this problem. in this research two method, earned duration management and risk management, has been used to remove the gap of the plan and the reality; this enable the project to utilize both high accuracy of the first method and prophecy of th...

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The following coins problem is a version of a multi-armed bandit problem where one has to select from among a set of objects, say classifiers, after an experimentation phase that is constrained by a time or cost budget. The question is how to spend the budget. The problem involves pure exploration only, differentiating it from typical multi-armed bandit problems involving an exploration/exploit...

Symposium Organizers Rebecca Landsberg & Jim Bonacum (Symposium Co-Chairs) John Martin, Matt Evans, Yash Mhaskar (Moderators) Jo Patterson & Lucia Vazquez (Program & Coordinators) John Martin & Mike Lemke (Abstract Selection) Keenan Dungey (Advertising & Duplication) Jo Patterson & Marc Klingshirn (Announcements & Call for Papers) Harshavarden Bapat & Wayne Gade (Budget & Expenses) Harshavarden...

Some policy experts answer that question by arguing that budget constraints contributed to regulatory delays in the past. The reform simply relaxed those constraints by increasing the resources for new-drug review. However, there is little empirical evidence to suggest that changes in the fda’s budget influenced regulatory delays and the speed of review prior to user fees. Other policy experts ...

Eric Hanushek is a Professor of Economics and Public Policy and Director of the W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy at the University of Rochester. He joined the University of Rochester in 1978 and has previously been Director of the university's Public Policy Analysis Program and Chairman of the Department of Economics. From 1983–85, he was Deputy Director of the Congressional Budge...