to determine the coverage rate, timeliness and quality of ante-natal care in rural areas under the coverage of health houses in west azerbaijan province, 30 health houses (hh) were randomly selected out of 731 hh in the province. in each hh, using the method of lot quality assurance sampling (lqas) 28 women having recently born babies was selected. data were collected using check-list for facil...

This paper presents a survey and overview of the evaluation of infrastructure regulation and regulatory agencies. It covers the development of ex ante and ex post evaluation based on costbenefit analysis and the application of these methods to regulation in the UK, the European Union and the USA. Much of the work in this area has been on infrastructure regulation in developing countries. The pa...

This paper develops a novel positive model of informal contracting in which rewards and punishments are not determined by an ex ante optimal plan but instead express the ex post moral sentiments of the arbitrating party. We consider a subjective performance evaluation problem in which a principal can privately assess the contribution of an agent to the welfare of a broader group. In the absence...

Social media analytics is showing promise for the prediction of financial markets. However, the true value of such data for trading is unclear due to a lack of consensus on which instruments can be predicted and how. Current approaches are based on the evaluation of message volumes and are typically assessed via retrospective (ex-post facto) evaluation of trading strategy returns. In this paper...

Industrial energy programs such as energy audit programs and Long-Term Agreements (LTAs) are one of the most common means of promoting energy efficiency in industry. As a result of the European Energy End-Use Efficiency and Energy Services Directive from 2006, the Swedish Government Bill proposed a national energy program towards industrial smalland medium-sized enterprises using more than 500 ...

Very Preliminary and Incomplete. In this paper, I present and estimate a flexible partial equilibrium on-the-job search model with the goal of better understanding wage dynamics. A very recent literature uses search models to understand the dynamics that govern the evolution of wages. This literature tries to solve the problem of lack of structural interpretation that affects univariate models ...

introduction so far, many evaluation methodologies for assessing urban plans have been introduced, but comprehensive and systematic evaluation methodologies up to now have received little attention. in recent years the plan - process - results (ppr) approach as a comprehensive and systematic evaluation methodology based on the policy- plan/programme-implementation-process(ppip) methodology has ...