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An Asynchronous Distributed Algorithm for Solving Stochastic Unit Commitment Ignacio ARAVENA SOLIS, CORE, Université catholique de Louvain (with Anthony Papavasilou) We present an asynchronous algorithm for solving the stochastic unit commitment (SUC) problem using scenario...

Schooling, Learning, and Earnings: Long-term Effects of a Conditional Cash Transfer Program in Nicaragua Karen Macours (PSE, Paris) CCT programs have become the anti-poverty program of choice in many developing countries. Numerous evaluations, often based on rigorous experimental designs,...

 Social Welfare and the Rebound Effect of the Scraps Collection System Thuc Huan Ha, CORE, Université catholique de Louvain In a simple two-period model, we examine the interaction between an extractor and a recycler competing in an industry, facing different rates of scraps...

The Correlated Pseudo-Marginal Method for Inference in Latent Variable Models Arnaud DOUCET, Oxford University (joint work George Deligiannidis and Michael K. Pitt) The pseudo-marginal algorithm is a popular variant of the Metropolis--Hastings scheme which allows us to sample...