Sentences with phrase «paper estimates the impact»

This paper estimates the impact of private education on low - income students in Chile.

This paper estimates the impact of climate change on the fisheries and aquaculture sector of Bangladesh by employing appropriate econometric models.

Federal Reserve Board economists have published the results of a paper estimating the impact of an increase in student debt on home ownership.

Not exact matches

The paper's estimates are conservative, since they don't count utility fees or the impact of project - specific agreements, in which local politicians ask builders to provide particular amenities (including affordable housing) in exchange for permits.

These scores were then compared to a world average for papers in the same field to yield an estimate of their «relative impact.»

A new paper, co-authored by Woods Hole Research Center Senior Scientist Richard A. Houghton, entitled, «Audit of the global carbon budget: estimate errors and their impact on uptake uncertainty,» was published in the journal Biogeosciences.

«Even though the industry acknowledges that greening has reached epidemic proportions across the state, estimates of the level of infection and its impact on citrus operations are scarce,» the researchers wrote in the paper.

Heller said the Carnegie Mellon paper did a good job of estimating Americans» daily caloric intake and expanded on his work by quantifying the energy and water impacts of different foods.

With more than 1000bn tonnes of carbon estimated to be locked up in permafrost soils, the impacts for climate could be very significant, says Dr Sarah Chadburn, a specialist in Arctic permafrost modelling at the University of Exeter and lead author on the new paper.

A paper I recently co-authored with Mike McShane, Director of Education Policy at the Show - Me Institute, estimated the fiscal impact of a broad - eligibility ESA program on Missouri taxpayers and public school districts.

In this paper, we extend the original evaluation of the SCSF program by estimating impacts of the offer of a voucher on college enrollment.

As you will see in the summary report (by Fordham's Dara Zeehandelaar and Amber Winkler) and several technical papers to follow, economist and pension expert Robert Costrell and education - finance expert Larry Maloney parsed the budgets of the Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Philadelphia school districts to estimate just how big an impact their pension and retiree - health - care obligations will have on their bottom line in coming years.

Nber Working Paper Series Estimating Teacher Impacts on Student Achievement: an Experimental Evaluation

The new methodology is fully explained in our latest white paper, After - Tax Returns: How to estimate the impact of taxes on ETF performance.

Impacts of Free - ranging Domestic Cats (Felis catus) on birds in the United States: A review of recent research with conservation and management recommendations (2009) HAHF cites the 2009 paper co-authored by former Smithsonian researcher Nico Dauphiné (who resigned after being found guilty of attempted animal cruelty last year, after rat poison was found in cat food outside her apartment building) as evidence of «the incredible impact of free ranging cats on the bird populations of the U.S.» Among the many flaws in «Impacts of Free - ranging Domestic Cats» was the authors» estimate of «117 to 157 million exotic predators,» which was based on David Jessup's inflated (and, not surprisingly, unattributed) «estimate» of «60 to 100 million feral and abandoned cats.»

In a 2011 paper published in the Journal of Wildlife Management, Jeff Horn and his co-authors estimate the home range of owned and unowned cats, arguing that «greater activity levels and ranging behavior suggest unowned cats have a greater potential impact on wildlife than do owned cats.»

Ultimately, because our analysis is not intended to provide C estimates for international reporting so much as a quantitative assessment of reforestation impacts on soil C in a highly responsive surface layer, we maintain the focus on topsoils for the rest of this paper.»

[2012 paper — 225 cites] Modelling sea level rise impacts on storm surges along US coasts We estimate that, by mid-century, some locations may experience high water levels annually that would qualify today as «century» (i.e., having a chance of occurrence of 1 % annually) extremes.

The Howarth paper, «Methane and the greenhouse - gas footprint of natural gas from shale formations,» had estimated that leakage of gas from hydraulic fracturing operations (given that natural gas is mainly methane, a potent heat - trapping substance) and other factors made the climate impact of gas from such wells substantially worse than that of coal, measured per unit of energy.

I think the university must be trying to lessen the impact of this paper, which would be expected to draw scary - new - large - estimate headlines, coming out right during the political conventions.

The public health impact has been estimated several ways, including in «Impact of the Volkswagen emissions control defeat device on U.S. public health,» a paper in Environmental Research Letters, and by the Upshot unit at The impact has been estimated several ways, including in «Impact of the Volkswagen emissions control defeat device on U.S. public health,» a paper in Environmental Research Letters, and by the Upshot unit at The Impact of the Volkswagen emissions control defeat device on U.S. public health,» a paper in Environmental Research Letters, and by the Upshot unit at The Times.

The labor productivity impacts estimated in this paper can help to make these benefit calculations more complete.

In the first paper Toggwieler et al. estimates the impact of changes in surface wind speed in the ACC and Antarctic convergence zone.

To estimate vehicle owner impacts, the paper calculates the life cycle cost (LCC) of private vehicle transportation for vehicle owners with PHEVs and compares it with the LCC for conventional light - duty vehicles.

To calculate the impacts on electric utilities, the paper provides estimates of the impacts of PHEVs on the revenue and cost streams of two sample utilities, one with its own generating resources, and one that is highly dependent on imported power («wires only»).

The research, conducted by an international team of scientists from a range of institutions, is presented in a series of seven academic papers that estimate change in land use and greenhouse gas emissions from oil palm expansion in the three countries, review the social and environmental impacts of palm oil production, forecast potential growth in the sector across the region, and detail methods for measuring emissions and carbon stocks of plantations establishing on peatlands.

Nic Lewis and Judith Curry have a new paper that's just been published, The impact of recent forcing and ocean heat uptake data on estimates of climate sensitivity It's in the AMS Journal of Climate, which is quite highly regarded, so well done them.

The Howarth et al paper estimating the climatic impact of shale gas extraction by hydraulic fracturing (fracking) has provoked a number of responses across the media.