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The Impact of the 2018 Tariffs on Prices and Welfare
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2019 We examine conventional approaches to evaluating the economic impact of protectionist trade policies. We illustrate these conventional approaches by applying them to the tariffs introduced by the Trump administration during 2018.
M. Amiti, S. Redding, David E. Weinstein
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A Unified Welfare Analysis of Government Policies
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2019 We conduct a comparative welfare analysis of 133 historical policy changes over the past half-century in the United States, focusing on policies in social insurance, education and job training, taxes and cash transfers, and in-kind transfers.
Nathaniel Hendren, Ben Sprung-Keyser
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Journal of Public Child Welfare, 2020 The child welfare system disproportionately harms Black children and families through systemic over-surveillance, over-involvement, and the resulting adverse outcomes associated with foster care.
Alan J. Dettlaff +5 more
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The Unreasonable Fairness of Maximum Nash Welfare
ACM Conference on Economics and Computation, 2016 The maximum Nash welfare (MNW) solution --- which selects an allocation that maximizes the product of utilities --- is known to provide outstanding fairness guarantees when allocating divisible goods. And while it seems to lose its luster when applied to
I. Caragiannis +5 more
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Behavioral Diversity as a Potential Indicator of Positive Animal Welfare
Animals, 2020 Simple Summary The zoological community continually looks for new ways to improve the management of the animals under their professional care. This includes finding opportunities for animals to thrive within a zoo or aquarium environment.
L. Miller +3 more
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Welfare Diplomacy: Benchmarking Language Model Cooperation [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 The growing capabilities and increasingly widespread deployment of AI systems necessitate robust benchmarks for measuring their cooperative capabilities. Unfortunately, most multi-agent benchmarks are either zero-sum or purely cooperative, providing limited opportunities for such measurements.
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2022 In this paper, the problems of humans will be explained, and the right way to overcome the problems by welfare will be suggested.
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Updating Animal Welfare Thinking: Moving beyond the “Five Freedoms” towards “A Life Worth Living”
Animals, 2016 Simple Summary The Five Freedoms were formulated in the early 1990s and are now well recognised as highly influential in the animal welfare arena. However, a marked increase in scientific understanding over the last two decades now shows that the Five ...
D. Mellor
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013 This paper presents the Paretian Watershed and the fundamental theorems of welfare economics. It distinguishes the British approach (à la Kaldor-Hicks) from the American approach (à la Bergson-Samuelson) to new welfare economics. It develops the more recent domains of happiness economics, the comparative approach by Amartya Sen, and the theory of fair ...
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Empirical Welfare Maximization with Constraints [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 Empirical Welfare Maximization (EWM) is a framework that can be used to select welfare program eligibility policies based on data. This paper extends EWM by allowing for uncertainty in estimating the budget needed to implement the selected policy, in addition to its welfare.
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