Nutrition Improvement Projects in Tanzania: Appropriate Choice of Institutions Matters

The choice of institutions

Estimation Based on an Appropriate Choice of Loss Function

Some examples of absurd uniformly minimum variance unbiased estimators are discussed. Two reasons, argued in the literature, for having such estimators are lack of enough information in the available data and property of unbiasedness. In this paper, accepting both of these views, we show that an appropriate choice of loss function using a general concept of unbiasedness leads to risk unb...

Growth , Development , and Appropriate Versus Inappropriate Institutions ∗

In this paper, we present a simple model that offers a unified framework for the analysis of economic growth and economic development. In our model, the transformation of production relationships, a key feature of the process of economic development, goes hand-in-hand with economic growth. The main driving force of this pattern is that economic growth in relatively backward economies is associa...

Reconcile sequence improvement projects

Introduction This document describes the strategies for reconciling a GEP sequence improvement project that has been improved by multiple students. The reconciliation process seeks to generate the most accurate sequence assembly possible by comparing the multiple assemblies. Discrepant regions among the different assemblies can help the reviewer identify problematic regions in the assembly that...

Rational Choice and Dysfunctional Institutions

As stated elsewhere in this issue, we cannot claim to explain an institution’s origin just by the functions it serves. In part this may be because of the cognitive limitations of those actors who are instrumental in institutional formation and institutional change. But even more clearly, it is the case that rational instrumental choice does not imply functional institutions. Just as rational ch...