Are there diminishing returns to R&D?

Are There Diminishing Returns to Transfer Size in Conditional Cash Transfers?

Are There Civic Returns to Education?

Are There Civic Returns to Education? " …since the achievement of American Independence, the universal and ever-repeated argument in favor of Free Schools has been, that the general intelligence which they are capable of diffusing, and which can be imparted by no other human instrumentality, is indispensable to a republican form of government. " Horace Mann (1846) INTRODUCTION Economists typica...

Optimal decision making and matching are tied through diminishing returns.

How individuals make decisions has been a matter of long-standing debate among economists and researchers in the life sciences. In economics, subjects are viewed as optimal decision makers who maximize their overall reward income. This framework has been widely influential, but requires a complete knowledge of the reward contingencies associated with a given choice situation. Psychologists and ...

The Law of Diminishing Returns.

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Are There Increasing Returns in Marriage Markets?

Most matching models of the marriage market assume increasing returns to scale, that is, they postulate that a larger pool of eligibles will lead to a higher marriage rate. Empirically, the difficulty in studying the cross-section relationship between the size of the marriage market and marriage behavior is that, in general, market size is endogenous. We address this issue in two ways. First, w...