Entertainment products such as movies, DVDs and video games have short life-cycles: demand is usually highest immediately following the product release and declines rapidly in subsequent weeks. Since marketers have to set advertising schedules for such products prior to launch, it is critical for them to obtain an accurate assessment of the demand responsiveness to advertising before any sales ...

This paper examines and critiques the ways in which the national government supports the conservation of currently private land. The federal government regulates the development of private land through laws such as the Endangered Species Act; finances the acquisition of fee and other interests in land by federal, state, and local governmental agencies; provides grants to land trusts and other n...

In this paper we present a novel, publicly verifiable mixing scheme which has everlasting privacy towards observers: all the information published on the bulletin board by the mixes (audit information etc)̇ reveals no information about the identity of any of the messages published. The correctness of the mixing process is statistical: even if all authorities conspire, they cannot change the cont...

Private schools serve a significant section of the Indian student population in the K-12 market. This share is likely to increase with the country's growth as households-both rich and poor clamor for quality education. This paper seeks to understand the determinants of schooling (public and private) in rural India. We present and estimate a discretecontinuous model of household school choice an...

This article provides an overview of current trends in health expenditures in 29 OECD countries and recent revisions of OECD health accounts. U.S. health expenditures are compared with those of other OECD countries. The interactions of cost-containment measures with changes in the public-private mix of financing and in the composition of health care spending are discussed.

II The UK higher education sector creates far-reaching benefits for the public, private individuals and businesses, and is funded by a mix of public and private investment. Within this funding model, there are a number of possible sources of increased investment for universities. However, while it is important to explore all options, this document shows that public funding is constrained, while...

BACKGROUND Aedes aegypti Linnaeus is a peridomestic mosquito that lays desiccation-resistant eggs in water-filled human-made containers. Previous investigations connected egg hatching with declining dissolved oxygen (DO) that is associated with bacterial growth. However, past studies failed to uncouple DO from other potential stimulatory factors and they contained little quantitative informatio...

The provision and financing of health care are basic issues that every country must address. In principle, a country's health care can be both provided and financed either entirely publicly, or entirely privately (including by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs)). Indeed, private provision of health care is attractive because it reduces the government's fiscal burden, and because it may encour...

1110 H ealth research is essential to improving health care [1]. Unfortunately, health research has a low priority in the developing world. In all disciplines of science and technology, India and Pakistan combined have 208 researchers per million citizens [2,3], as compared to 4,526 researchers per million citizens in the United States [4]. The published research output from South Asia is small...