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The Economic Recession: Early Impacts on Health Care Safety Net Providers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Examines how the recession and state and local budget cuts affected safety-net clinics' capacity to meet demand in five communities, the extent to which federal stimulus funds mitigated the impact, strategies for sustainability, and ...
Brian C. Quinn   +4 more
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Consumers' Willingness to Pay a Premium for Climate‐Friendly Food Production: The Role of Production Method Information and Social Norms

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether information about production methods and social norms can increase consumers' willingness to pay (WTP) a price premium for food produced using climate‐friendly farming methods. A randomized survey experiment was conducted with 1568 respondents across Denmark, Lithuania, and Spain, who were assigned to one of four ...
Kassa Tarekegn Erekalo   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prison Count 2010: State Population Declines for the First Time in 38 Years [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Analyzes trends in state and federal prison population, state variations, policies behind the trends, and factors that may affect future trends, including advances in technology and risk assessments, public support for alternatives, and budget ...

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Alternative Policy Designs to Help Farmers Select Profitable Conservation Practices

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Voluntary private carbon initiatives (VPCIs) promote the implementation of agricultural conservation practices that mitigate emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) via financial incentives to participating farmers. Simultaneously, an array of public policies supports the adoption of conservation practices through technical and financial ...
Oranuch Wongpiyabovorn   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is state fiscal policy asymmetric over the business cycle? [PDF]

open access: yes
A number of stabilizers are thought to mute the business cycle. One key stabilizer is federal fiscal policy. The federal budget surplus tends to rise during economic booms and fall in downturns, helping to stabilize consumers’ disposable income and ...
Bent E. Sorensen, Oved Yosha
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Kids' Share 2008: How Children Fare in the Federal Budget [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Provides an annual analysis of trends in federal spending and tax expenditures on children's programs -- such as food stamps, tax credits, and Head Start -- and assesses the impact of future budget planning on ...
Adam Carasso   +4 more
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Factorization Machine with Iterative Quantum Reverse Annealing: A Python Package for Batch Black‐Box Optimization With Reverse Quantum Annealing

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
Factorization machine with iterative quantum reverse annealing (FMIRA) leverages quantum reverse annealing to perform batch black‐box optimization. Factorization machine with quantum annealing (FMQA) is a widely used python package for solving black‐box optimization problems using D‐Wave quantum annealers.
Andrejs Tučs, Ryo Tamura, Koji Tsuda
wiley   +1 more source

The state of the state and local government sector: fiscal issues in the Seventh District [PDF]

open access: yes
This article reviews the state and local budget situation, particularly in the states of the Seventh Federal Reserve Districts (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, and Wisconsin).
Richard H. Mattoon
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