The slim-down programs that work best include financial incentives, such as upfront deposits and cash prizes, says John Cawley, a professor of public policy and economics at Cornell University who is leading a study of 2, 407 employees involved in incentive programs.
Boskin and Cogan are, respectively, professors of economics and public policy at Stanford University, where they are both senior fellows at the Hoover Institution.
Last month Jennifer Doleac, assistant professor of public policy and economics at the University of Virginia, published a paper entitled The Effects of DNA Databases on Crime, which suggested that size matters: "larger DNA databases reduce crime rates".
It joins an active and growing discourse around the idea that political economy must be made relevant again and that this should happen not simply in schools of public policy or international relations but inside economics and economic institutions.
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"If leaders in government, science, economics, public policy, intellectual property and philanthropy can come together, we will maximize the opportunities to develop and implement the creative solutions that will truly make a difference to tackling antimicrobial resistance, " Mr. Brennan said.
The programme aims to send 200 students a year to take a year-long master's degree at Tsinghua - in subjects including public policy, international relations, economics and business, and engineering - from 2016.
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The new group includes people involved in public sector delivery, social policy, accountancy and economics.
That is, our new economics is terribly useful if we assume that politics and politicians (or even public policy making) can be made rational, perfect and efficient.
David Neumark, an economics professor at the University of California, Irvine, and a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, has done the best-known empirical studies on job loss resulting from minimum wage hikes.
The House of Lords is therefore a revising chamber, and peers - many of whom are experts in a particular field of public policy, such as economics or health - regularly ask the government to re-think important legislation.
Justin Wolfers, assistant professor of business and public policy at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he teaches "Finance, Behavioral Economics and Sports Betting, " says he's very optimistic about betting in office pools.
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