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The Impact of the UK New Deal for Lone Parents on Benefit Receipt
This paper evaluates the UK New Deal for Lone Parents (NDLP) program, which aims to return lone parents to work. Using rich administrative data on benefit receipt histories and a "selection on observed variables" identification strategy, we find that the program modestly reduces benefit receipt among participants. Methodologically, we highlight the importance of flexibly conditioning on benefit histories, as well as taking account of complex sample designs when applying matching methods. We find that survey measures of attitudes add information beyond that contained in the benefit histories and that incorporating the insights of the recent literature on dynamic treatment effects matters even when not formally applying the related methods. Finally, we explain why our results differ substantially from those of the official evaluation of NDLP, which found very large impacts on benefit exits.program evaluation, active labor market policy, matching, lone parents, New Deal
The Effect of Macrodiversity on the Performance of Maximal Ratio Combining in Flat Rayleigh Fading
The performance of maximal ratio combining (MRC) in Rayleigh channels with
co-channel interference (CCI) is well-known for receive arrays which are
co-located. Recent work in network MIMO, edge-excited cells and base station
collaboration is increasing interest in macrodiversity systems. Hence, in this
paper we consider the effect of macrodiversity on MRC performance in Rayleigh
fading channels with CCI. We consider the uncoded symbol error rate (SER) as
our performance measure of interest and investigate how different
macrodiversity power profiles affect SER performance. This is the first
analytical work in this area. We derive approximate and exact symbol error rate
results for M-QAM/BPSK modulations and use the analysis to provide a simple
power metric. Numerical results, verified by simulations, are used in
conjunction with the analysis to gain insight into the effects of the link
powers on performance.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures; IEEE Transaction of Communication, 2012
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Performance Analysis of Dual-User Macrodiversity MIMO Systems with Linear Receivers in Flat Rayleigh Fading
The performance of linear receivers in the presence of co-channel
interference in Rayleigh channels is a fundamental problem in wireless
communications. Performance evaluation for these systems is well-known for
receive arrays where the antennas are close enough to experience equal average
SNRs from a source. In contrast, almost no analytical results are available for
macrodiversity systems where both the sources and receive antennas are widely
separated. Here, receive antennas experience unequal average SNRs from a source
and a single receive antenna receives a different average SNR from each source.
Although this is an extremely difficult problem, progress is possible for the
two-user scenario. In this paper, we derive closed form results for the
probability density function (pdf) and cumulative distribution function (cdf)
of the output signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) and signal to
noise ratio (SNR) of minimum mean squared error (MMSE) and zero forcing (ZF)
receivers in independent Rayleigh channels with arbitrary numbers of receive
antennas. The results are verified by Monte Carlo simulations and high SNR
approximations are also derived. The results enable further system analysis
such as the evaluation of outage probability, bit error rate (BER) and
capacity.Comment: 24 pages, 7 figures; IEEE Transaction of Wireless Communication 2012
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Uplink Analysis of Large MU-MIMO Systems With Space-Constrained Arrays in Ricean Fading
Closed-form approximations to the expected per-terminal
signal-to-interference-plus-noise-ratio (SINR) and ergodic sum spectral
efficiency of a large multiuser multiple-input multiple-output system are
presented. Our analysis assumes correlated Ricean fading with maximum ratio
combining on the uplink, where the base station (BS) is equipped with a uniform
linear array (ULA) with physical size restrictions. Unlike previous studies,
our model caters for the presence of unequal correlation matrices and unequal
Rice factors for each terminal. As the number of BS antennas grows without
bound, with a finite number of terminals, we derive the limiting expected
per-terminal SINR and ergodic sum spectral efficiency of the system. Our
findings suggest that with restrictions on the size of the ULA, the expected
SINR saturates with increasing operating signal-to-noise-ratio (SNR) and BS
antennas. Whilst unequal correlation matrices result in higher performance, the
presence of strong line-of-sight (LoS) has an opposite effect. Our analysis
accommodates changes in system dimensions, SNR, LoS levels, spatial correlation
levels and variations in fixed physical spacings of the BS array.Comment: 7 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in the proceedings of
IEEE ICC, to be held in Paris, France, May 201
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