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Towards a Structural View of Resilience
(IIASA, 1975-08)The result of resilience is persistence: the maintenance of certain characteristic behavioral properties in the face of stress, strain and surprise. But the origins of this resilient behavior lie in the structure of the ... -
Intertemporal Indicator Evaluation: A Preliminary Note on Problems for Evaluating Time Stream Data for Environmental Policy Analysis
(IIASA, 1976-01)Assumptions regarding the aggregation of time stream data (e.g. "discounting") are crucial in the evaluation of regional development proposals and the assessment of environmental impacts. Nonetheless, present practice ... -
Spatial Structure Relationship in a Forest Insect System: Simulation Models and Analysis
(IIASA, 1979)This paper analyses relationships among dispersal, spatial heterogeneity, and local ecological processes in the spruce budworm (Choristoneura fumiferana Clem.) - boreal forest system of eastern North America. A range of ... -
Food, Health, and Population: Policy Analysis and Development Priorities in Low-Income Countries
(IIASA, 1979-06)This paper presents a policy analysis of rural development strategies in low-income countries. Governments, development agencies, and scholars are now giving increased attention to structuring and supplementing growth ... -
Witches, Floods, and Wonder Drugs: Historical Perspectives on Risk Management
(Springer, 1980)Risk is a people problem, and people have been contending with it for a very long time indeed. I extract some lessons from this historical record and explore their implications for current and future practice of risk ... -
On the Practical Implications of the Carbon Dioxide Question
(IIASA, 1985-08)There is no doubt that atmospheric concentrations of CO2 and other "greenhouse" gases have been increasing and will continue to do so for the next several decades at least. Climate models predict that this will lead to a ... -
Scenarios of Socioeconomic Development for Studies of Global Environmental Change: A Critical Review
(IIASA, 1989-06)This study (1) critically reviews existing studies of global trends in population, agriculture, and energy with a view toward showing which studies are most useful for which sorts of studies of global environmental change ... -
Resistance to Reform: Status Quo Bias in the Presence of Individual- Specific Uncertainty
(American Economic Association, 1991)Why do governments so often fail to adopt policies which economists consider to be efficiency-enhancing? Our answer to this question relies on uncertainty regarding the distribution of gains and losses from reform. We ... -
Resistance to Reform: Status Quo Bias in the Presence of Individual-Specific Uncertainty
(American Economic Association, 1991)Why do governments so often fail to adopt policies which economists consider to be efficiency-enhancing? Our answer to this question relies on uncertainty regarding the distribution of gains and losses from reform. We ... -
Motor Voter or Motivated Voter?
(New Prospect, Inc., 1996)The Motor Voter law was supposed to dramatically increase turnout and give marginalized groups more voice in politics. Unfortunately, getting these groups to register doesn't do any good if you don't give them reason to vote. -
The Nuclear Weapons Complexes: Meeting the Conversion Challenge -- A Proposal for Expanded Action
(Russian-American Nuclear Security Advisory Council., 1997)Since the end of the Cold War, the United States and Russia have undertaken a serious effort to convert their nuclear complexes to non-weapons work. However, it has been difficult to achieve significant progress toward ... -
Multidimensional Uncertainty and Herd Behavior in Financial Markets
(American Economic Association, 1998)We study the relationship between asset prices and herd behavior, which occurs when traders follow the trend in past trades. When traders have private information on only a single dimension of uncertainty (the effect of a ... -
Why do More Open Economies Have Bigger Governments?
(University of Chicago Press, 1998)There exists a positive correlation between an economy's exposure to international trade and the size of its government. The correlation holds for most measures of government spending, in low- as well as high-income samples, ... -
The process of discovery
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The Market for Evaluations
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Resources and Resourcefulness: Strategic Capacity in the Unionization of California Agriculture, 1959-1966
(University of Chicago Press, 2000) -
A Nation of Organizers: The Institutional Origins of Civic Voluntarism in the United States
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Mentoring and Diversity
(American Economic Association, 2000)We study how diversity evolves at a firm with entry-level and upper-level employees who vary in ability and "type" (gender or ethnicity). The ability of entry-level employees is increased by mentoring. An employee receives ... -
Participatory Politics, Social Cooperation, and Economic Stability
(American Economic Association, 2000-05)