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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"Differences-in-Differences"”.
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Essays on the effects of immigration on education and crime
… effects of immigration on education and crime. In Chapter I, I use a reform in immigration policy as a natural experiment to estimate the effects of immigration on native-born student outcomes in Texas. OLS estimates suggest a negative association between immigration and the passing rates of …
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The impact of hiring chief diversity officers on college student diversity.
Diversity has become an increasingly important component of American education. In the past decade, many postsecondary educational institutions have established long-term goals to increase minority representation and inclusivity among both student bodies and faculty members by gender and major …
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Essays in labor economics and political economy
… that there is substantial geographical variation in the use of cesarean sections in Italy. Such variation is not driven by medical need and higher cesarean rates are achieved by performing the procedure on less and less appropriate patients. I find no evidence that high-use areas develop higher …
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Impact of Litigation Financing Disclosures on Patent Litigation
This paper investigates the impact of mandatory litigation financing disclosures on litigation outcomes, particularly in patent litigation. Despite the increasing importance of litigation funding, transparency regarding funders’ involvement remains limited. Using a differences-in-differences model, …
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A differences-in-differences approach to the UPP policy and crime displacement in the city neighborhoods and metropolitan area of Rio de Janeiro.
This thesis uses differences-in-differences causal inference method to study the impact of the UPP policy in the surrounding neighborhoods of the city of Rio and also the spillover effects potentially caused by it. Five types of crimes were taken into account: Violent death, rape, robbery, drug …
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The Regional Economic Effects of Commercial Passenger Air Service at Small Airports
I improve existing methods of regional analysis to achieve a rigorous understanding of the interaction between airport policies and regional economies. I use Self-Organizing Maps, an artificial neural network, to explore data and assess the feasibility of using matched control groups to balance …
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Can Community Water Projects Combat Child Diarrhea? Results From the Solomon Islands
<p>There is a vast amount of existing literature that has empirically scrutinized whether or not community water projects have the ability to mitigate diarrheal disease. A strong and persistent belief thinks that community water projects do have the means, however, over the decades empirical work …
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Essays in Health Care and Public Economics
… has been motivated by my two broad areas of interest - the nonprofit sector and health care, - and in particular by the growing number of community health centers in the United States in the last decade. The dissertation consists of three chapters: In the first chapter, I estimate the causal …
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Efeito dos sistemas de financiamento sobre os sistemas de saúde em países da América Latina e Caribe
The main objective of this study is to investigate the impact of transitions between Health Financing Systems (SFS) from predominantly out-of-pocket (OOP) to predominantly government (GOV) or social health insurance (SHI) systems on health outcomes, both intermediate and health outcomes, in Latin …
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Digital Platforms and Mobile Technologies for Development: Essays on Firm Formalization, Financial Inclusion, and Agricultural Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa
… expanded rapidly across sub-Saharan Africa, creating opportunities to strengthen state capacity, broaden financial inclusion, and build agricultural resilience. This dissertation examines their development impacts across three settings. Chapter 1 combines novel administrative tax records with high …
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Three Essays In Applied Econometrics
In this thesis, I use both structural- and reduced-form econometric models to analyze economic issues relating to the mortgage and labour markets. In chapter 2, I use a dynamic discrete choice model to quantify the impact of the Home Affordable Refinance Program (HARP) in the United States during …
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Digital Platforms and Mobile Technologies for Development: Essays on Firm Formalization, Financial Inclusion, and Agricultural Resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa
Siehe https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus4-20704 für um Abbildung A2.4 ergänzte Fassung. See https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus4-20704 for version including Figure A2.4. Mobile technologies and digital platforms have expanded rapidly across sub-Saharan Africa, creating …
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Three essays in political economy
"Delivering the Vote: The Political Effect of Free Mail Delivery in Early Twentieth Century America(with Elisabeth Perlman)", examines the effect of Rural Free Delivery on the behavior of voters and elected officials. Using a panel dataset covering the years surrounding the roll-out of RFD, and a …
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Three essays on Native American economic development
… recent attempts of Alaska Natives and American Indians to achieve self-determined economic progress by exploiting one-time, group-based wealth transfers. The results suggest caution when using such transfers as development tools. In Essays one and two, I analyze the Alaska Native Claims …
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Essays in political economy
… explore how different organizational forms, and in particular different hiring and firing practices, affect bureaucracies. In the first chapter, I study how the introduction of merit systems reducing politicians' control over police officers' hiring and firing affected police performance in the …
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Roads, Rights, and Rewards: Three Program Evaluations in Environmental and Resource Economics
… dissertation presents three program evaluations in environmental and resource economics. In the first chapter, I ask whether rural roads can contribute to a reversal of tree cover loss. Prior literature shows roads to be strong drivers of deforestation; however, I hypothesize that in some …
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Three Essays on the Role of Individualized Data in Marketing
… consists of three chapters on understanding the opportunities and challenges of using individualized data in marketing, in the context of mobile economy, retailing, and education. The first chapter investigates the impact of market structure on the use and abuse of individualized data. In …
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Three Essays on the Employment of Veterans
… market performance of veterans. Chapter 1 examines the unemployment impact of prior military service on the veterans. In order to control for non-random selection into the military, chapter introduces new set of instrumental variables exploiting the variation in economic and military …
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Essays in applied microeconomics: effects of environmental and trade policy shocks
… atmospheric nuclear weapon tests on mortality. Using individual-level vital records and a differences-in-differences approach, I analyze county-level radiation fallout data from tests conducted at the Nevada Test Site between 1951 and 1962 to assess the impact on mortality in the continental U.S. …
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Essays on health economics and development policies
This dissertation includes three chapters about the economics of policies and institutional development and health economics. The first chapter regards the empirical causal connection between in utero exposure to malaria and long-term adult socioeconomic conditions in Brazil, which documents the …
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