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The Opportunity Costs of Mandatory Military Service: Evidence from a Draft Lottery

Journal of Labor Economics, 2020
Conscription forces young men to serve in the military, irrespective of their opportunity costs. Using random assignment in the Danish draft lottery, we find a negative average effect of peacetime military service on earnings, an effect varying by ...
P. Bingley, Petter Lundborg, S. V. Lyk-Jensen   +2 more
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Optimal power flow incorporating renewable uncertainty related opportunity costs

International Conference on Climate Informatics, 2020
In this paper, an optimal power flow solution method incorporating a cost model that associates the uncertainty‐related expense incurred with the use of renewable energy sources, viz., solar and wind, is demonstrated.
Titipong Samakpong, W. Ongsakul, Nimal Madhu Manjiparambil   +2 more
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Family member commitment, the opportunity costs of staying, and turnover intentions

, 2020
Building on social identity theory, we develop and test a model of turnover intentions in a family business. We argue that the relationship between family member commitment and turnover intentions could be more complicated than characterized in prior ...
Raj V. Mahto, Gautam Vora, William C. McDowell, D. Khanin   +3 more
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Who Should Sign a Professional Baseball Contract? Quantifying the Financial Opportunity Costs of Major League Draftees

, 2020
Players selected in the annual Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft have a choice of whether to enter the system or pursue a career outside of professional baseball. As with any choice, there are opportunity costs associated with their decision.
N. Pifer, Christopher M. Mcleod, William J Travis, C. Castleberry   +3 more
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Opportunity cost

American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, 2021
Danial, Arendt, Jaclyn, Boyle
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Ecoefficiency, environmental regulation opportunity costs, and interregional industrial transfers: Evidence from the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China

Journal of Cleaner Production, 2019
The construction of the Yangtze River Economic Belt is a major strategic measure for coordinating China's regional development. In promoting regional integration, the belt has shown a trend in industrial gradient transfers, especially polluting ...
Jin-Xiao Chen, Youguo Zhang, Shilin Zheng   +2 more
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Targeted Promotions on an E-Book Platform: Crowding Out, Heterogeneity, and Opportunity Costs

Journal of Marketing Research, 2019
Targeted promotions based on individual purchase history can increase sales. However, the opportunity costs of targeting to optimize promoted product sales are poorly understood. A series of randomized field experiments with a large e-book platform shows
Nathan M. Fong, Yuchi Zhang, Xueming Luo, Xiaoyi Wang   +3 more
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Opportunity costs of conserving a dry tropical forest under REDD+: The case of the spiny dry forest in southwestern Madagascar

Forest Policy and Economics, 2018
Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD+) has been identified as a potentially cost-effective climate change mitigation strategy. The success of REDD+ in preventing deforestation and degradation in dry forests will depend partly on ...
R. Neudert, K. Olschofsky, D. Kübler, Laura Prill, M. Köhl, Frank Wätzold   +5 more
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Opportunity costs and the response of birds and mammals to climate warming

, 2021
S. Cunningham, J. Gardner, Rowan O. Martin   +2 more
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Vestibular Testing: Patient Perceptions, Morbidity, and Opportunity Costs.

Otology and Neurotology, 2018
OBJECTIVE To characterize patient tolerance and nonmonetary cost burdens of vestibular testing. Rigorously acquired data are essential for patient counseling and to determine if proposed additions/modifications to current protocols improve quality ...
Elizabeth A. Kelly, Catherine Stocker, Carly M Kempton, Darcia M. Dierking, Hannah Fehlberg, M. Adams   +5 more
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