Collective Goods, Common Agency, and Third-Party Intervention

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A common agency problem arises when an agent's efforts in contributing to public goods are unobservable, producing a third-best outcome based on free riding, competitive interests, and agency costs. Remedies involve multiple policies, unlike common agency or public good problems occurring separately.

Science & research, Research, Public goods, Social economics, Socioeconomics

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Fuzzy Targeting Indices and Orderings

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A membership function is used to identify households as poor or non-poor in the construction of social programs, drawing from fuzzy sets theory. A test of the method's targeting performance is also included.

Administration of Human Resource Programs (except Education, Public Health, and Veterans' Affairs Programs), Public Assistance & Income Supplements, Usage, Measurement, Comparative analysis, Fuzzy algorithms, Fuzzy logic, Poverty, Welfare, Public assistance, Set theory, Fuzzy sets, Fuzzy systems

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Compulsory Schooling Laws and the Cure for Child Labour

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Enforcement legislation is shown to be a critical factor in mitigating child labor and adverse welfare impacts on households under systems with compulsory schooling laws.

Public affairs, Social aspects, Economic aspects, Children, Child labor practices, Child labor, Education law, Child labour

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