In this paper, recent trends in U.S. commercial aviation are examined, so that an assessment may be made of the impact of the passage of the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 on the industry and also on the national airways ...
This paper examines the nature and characteristics of the US airport hierarchy and compares the size distribution of air-traffic communities with the urban hierarchy, using data from 1997. Air-carrier network structures ...
This study consists of an initial evaluation of the use and regulation of [environmental] claims in Ireland, in order to identify how they may be most effectively used to promote sustainable consumption. This final Report ...
Objective: To review and synethize the research material that exists on focus groups with children and adolescents and to provide guidelines for future development.
Methods: Psychlit, Medline and Cinahl electronic ...
Purpose: Lamotrigine (LTG), vigabatrin (VGB) and gabapentin (GBP) are three antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) used in the treatment of children with epilepsy for which longterm retention rates are not currently well known. This ...
This article investigates the role of bus rapid transit as a tool for mitigation of transport-related carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. We analyse a Quality Bus Corridor (QBC) implemented in Dublin, Ireland, in 1999 and ...
American insurers are designing products to contain healthcare costs by making consumers financially responsible for their choices. Little is known about how consumers will view these new designs. Our objective is to examine ...
We apply a new estimator to the measurement of the economic returns to education. We control for endogenous education, unobserved ability and measurement error using only the natural heteroscedasticty of wages and education ...
We apply a new estimator to the measurement of the economic returns to education. We control for endogenous education, unobserved ability and measurement error using only the natural heteroscedasticty
of wages and education ...
Comparing self-assessed indicators of subjective outcomes such as health, work disability, political efficacy, job satisfaction, etc. across countries or socio-economic groups is often hampered by the fact that different ...
Comparing self-assessed indicators of subjective outcomes such as health, work disability, political efficacy, job satisfaction, etc. across countries or socio-economic groups is often hampered by the fact that different ...
This paper describes the development, in an Irish context, of a 3-factor, 28-item version the Systemic Clinical Outcome and Routine Evaluation (SCORE) questionnaire for assessing progress in family therapy. The 40-item ...
This note shows a very simple way to incorporate the effects of uncertainty about the accuracy of present value estimates into the firm's option to delay irreversible investment. It is shown that, if the firm's priors about ...
This paper presents a comprehensive theoretical and methodological framework clarifying the relationship between non-market environmental valuation techniques, in particular hedonic and life-satisfaction methods. The paper ...
Although many cities have guidelines on the quantity of green open space that should accompany residential development, there is less guidance on the type or facilities of these spaces. The study uses an approach to determine ...
Denny, Kevin(University College Dublin. School of EconomicsUniversity College Dublin. Geary Institute, 2009-07)
I show a simple back-of-the-envelope method for calculating marginal effects in binary
choice and count data models. The approach suggested here focuses attention on
marginal effects at different points in the distribution ...