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Automatic Query-centric API for Routine Access to Linked Data
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe a gateway between Linked Data applications and the LOD cloud that offers a RESTful, reusable, and uniform means to routinely access any Linked data.
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Cultivating the cosmopolitan child in Silicon Valley
TL;DR: The authors explored the ways parents living in Silicon Valley, California seek to realize, maintain and manage "cultural and political multiplicities" in their efforts to create cosmopolitan environments and sociality for their children and families.
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How Cost-Effective Is Forestry for Climate Change Mitigation?
Gregory Valatin,Colin Price +1 more
TL;DR: A review of previous cost-effectiveness estimates of forestry options and underlying approaches, focusing especially upon UK studies, and setting the estimates in the context of those for other mitigation measures is provided in this article.
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Semi-parametric extensions of the Cairns–Blake–Dowd model: a one-dimensional kernel smoothing approach
Han Li,Colin O'Hare +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, a time-varying coefficient (TVC) model was proposed to combine the good characteristics of existing models with efficient model calibration methods, which can significantly improve the forecasting performance of mortality models.
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Impact Evaluation of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program: The Nicaraguan Red de Proteccion Social
John A. Maluccio,Rafael Flores +1 more
TL;DR: The impact evaluation of a conditional cash transfer program was performed by the Nicaraguan Red de Proteccion Social (RPS) as discussed by the authors, which evaluated the effectiveness of the program.
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The Case for Randomized Field Trials in Economic and Policy Research
TL;DR: The advantages and disadvantages of experiments in comparison with other research techniques are examined and the circumstances where randomized trials should be preferred over other methods are described.
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An evaluation of the impact of progresa on pre-school child height
Jere R. Behrman,John Hoddinott +1 more
TL;DR: One of the major components of the PROGRESA program has been directed toward improving the nutritional status of small children in poor rural communities in Mexico as mentioned in this paper, which has been shown to have a substantial effect on lifetime productivities and earnings of currently small children.
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Progressing through progresa: an impact assessment of a school subsidy experiment
TL;DR: The authors used a Markov schooling transition model applied to the experimental data to assess the impact of the educational subsidy program along several dimensions, including effects on initial ages of school entry, dropout rates, grade repetition rates, and school reentry rates.
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A New Approach to Social Assistance: Latin America’s Experience with Conditional Cash Transfer Programs
TL;DR: Conditional cash transfer as discussed by the authors is a departure from more traditional approaches to social assistance, that represents an innovative, and increasingly popular channel for the delivery of social services that represents a demand-side complement to the supply of health, and education services.