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Showing 1 to 20 of 144 for “"Difference in Difference"”.
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Changing the ability of the poor to generate income : Mexico's Conditional Cash Transfer program Oportunidades
… Cash Transfer (CCT) programs have been adopted in many developing countries, particularly in Latin America, as the core strategy for poverty reduction. These programs provide immediate economic support to poor populations conditional on specific actions such as sending children to school or …
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The Economics of Entrepreneurship: Subsidies, Risk and Tax Evasion
Often times, policymakers develop legislation to increase the levels of entrepreneurial activity. These policies exist at the federal, state and local levels as part of economic development plans. This dissertation aims to offer information to policymakers on the effectiveness of existing policies …
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The effect of the ACA Medicaid expansions on mortality : evidence from state border counties.
This thesis examines the effects of the 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid Reform on adult mortality at the county level. This thesis uses a difference-in-difference (DD) causal inference research design to study the impacts of the ACA Medicaid expansion on adult mortality rates and the …
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Essays on factors affecting physician treatment decisions and treatment access.
… which ultimately can affect patient outcomes. Using statewide hospital data from North Carolina and Florida, we analyze the impact of three exogenous shocks on physician treatment decisions and treatment access. Across all analyses, a difference-in-difference or triple difference framework is …
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Tornado in Credit Desert: Role of Consumer Credit Access in Disaster Recovery
… of credit access restrictions on post-disaster financial outcomes of subprime consumers in Arkansas, a state with the lowest usury cap of 17 percent. Due to the restrictive cap, neither payday nor consumer finance companies operate in Arkansas, while they do in all six neighboring states. Using …
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Returns to Education: Evidence from the UK
This thesis consists of three independent chapters which address separate questions in relation to labor economics and economics of education <br/><b><br/></b><b>Wage Penalty of Vocational Education: Evidence from the UK (Chapter 3) </b><br/>In this chapter, I examine the difference in wages …
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Empirical studies on changes in oil governance
… is consequential to the economies of oil-producing countries. In the literature, there are two types of regulation: indirect regulation through taxes and tariffs or direct regulation through the creation of a National Oil Company (NOC). In the 1970s, many oil-producing countries nationalized …
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Applications of Methods in Causal Inference
<p>Causal inference methods in economics serve as vital tools for disentangling cause-and-effect relationships. These methods enable economists to find the impact of policy interventions, and market changes on desired outcomes. Employing techniques such as randomized controlled trials, instrumental …
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Is implementing a provincial e-cigarette tax associated with a lower likelihood of e-cigarette initiation among high school students? Evaluating the experience in British Columbia using data from the COMPASS study, 2018-2021
… study evaluated the impact of an e-cigarette tax in British Columbia (BC) on youth e-cigarette use. Methods: This study used repeat cross-sectional and longitudinal samples of students attending high schools in four Canadian provinces in 2018/19 and 2020/21. Results: A difference-in-difference …
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Three Essays on the Impact of Medicaid Expansion on Cancer Care and Mis-Measured Self-Reports of Cancer Screening Status
The dissertation consists of three essays attempting to assess the impact of expanded health insurance policy on cancer care continuum and measure the unbiased program effects after taking care of mis-measured cancer screening self-reports. The first essay examines the impact of the Affordable Care …
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Essays on the determinants of healthcare utilization
The first chapter investigates how hospital mergers affect technology adoption and utilization. I analyze the mergers of five for-profit hospital chains in a difference-in-difference framework, comparing markets in which two or more of the merging chains operated prior to the mergers to markets in …
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An analysis of changes in labor market discrimination by gender, 1984--2000
The effect of labor market discrimination on the wages of male and female workers has been previously studied (Blinder, 1973; Oaxaca, 1973; Reimers, 1983; Cotton, 1988; Neumark, 1988; and Oaxaca and Ransom, 1994). Changes in the amount of discrimination and the variables that contribute most …
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Jackpot! The Employment Effects of Gaming Revenue Allocation Plans on Native American Tribes
Revenue allocation plans (RAPs) are one way in which Native American tribal governments distribute their casino profits equally to every member of the tribe. This study matches tribes with approved RAPs to their respective “treatment” counties. These treatment counties are then matched and compared …
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Áhrif eldgosanna á Reykjanesskaga á fasteignamarkaðinn á Íslandi
… B.Sc. í viðskiptafræði með lögfræði sem aukagrein, og Valeria Drumea, sem útskrifast með B.Sc. í viðskiptafræði, rannsökuðu áhrif náttúruhamfaranna á Reykjanesskaga og áhrif þeirra á fasteignamarkaðinn á Íslandi. Síðastliðin ár hafa 11 eldgos átt sér stað á Reykjanesskaga og eru afleiðingar …
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Essays on the Externalities of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act of India
In this dissertation, I offer two distinct studies on the welfare externalities of the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) of India. The MGNREGA is an employment guarantee scheme implemented in rural India since 2006 and is the world’s largest public works project. In …
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Municipal Bond Credit Rating Access and Retail Investors’ Transaction Costs
<p>In 2010, the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board proposed a rule change requiring the display of current credit ratings on the EMMA website, a centralized repository of municipal bond information. Prior to the rule change, current credit ratings were freely available on individual rating …
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Seeking equitable development in a challenging affordability landscape : examining the relationship between housing prices and the Atlanta BeltLine
A revival in linear park development has brought new open space to a growing number of communities previously characterized by low-income populations, obsolete infrastructure, and difficulties in attracting outside investment. This thesis examines the relationship between linear park development …
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The Propensity to Borrow out of Expected Permanent Income
One prediction of the Permanent Income Hypothesis is that households who are illiquid may wish to borrow against future income when there is a positive shock to their future income process. We informally model this prediction in a two-period setting and then test it using Equifax data. We …
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Effects of Shoe Donations on Children’s Time Allocation TOMS Shoes in El Salvador
<p>What are the impacts of TOMS shoe donations in rural El Salvador? This paper tries to answer the question by studying the changes in time allocation among children age 6 to 12 years in El Salvador. By taking advantage of a Randomized Control Trial performed between January 15, 2012 and February …
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Regulating Payday Lending
The 2017 Rule on Payday, Vehicle Title, and Certain High-Cost Installment Loans issued by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) aimed to curb debt traps and better protect consumers from predatory small-dollar lending practices. By mandating ability-to repay analyses, limiting rollovers, …
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