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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Distributional effects"”.
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Distributional effects of the Mexican agricultural trade policies: The tomato case
… of this study was to analyze the welfare effects of Mexican tomato export policies. A voluntary import quota and production and export subsidies were used for the estimation of welfare impacts on Mexican consumers, producers and the government budget. Welfare effects were evaluated within …
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Distributional effects of net metering policies and residential solar plus behind-the-meter storage adoption
… charges may cause important cost shifting effects from DER adopters onto non-adopters, rising equity and fairness concerns. Firstly, under NEM schemes, we calculate that adopter customers may, on average, obtain bill reductions of 71% when installing solar or solar plus storage, whereas …
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Alternative mortgage instruments : their distributional effects on homeownership, housing consumption, and the use of mortgage credit.
Thesis. 1977. Ph.D.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Identifying and estimating the distributional effects of unionization and the long-term consequences of military service
… procedure for estimating quantile treatment effects in a regression discontinuity design. It shows nonparametric identification, develops estimators, including a data-driven bandwidth choice, and illustrates the methodology by estimating the effects of an Oklahoma universal pre-K program on …
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The economics of US greenhouse gas emissions reduction policy : assessing distributional effects across households and the 50 United States using a recursive dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model
… has revolved around state- and district- level distributional economics, and to a lesser extent household-level distribution questions. Many politicians and analysts have suggested that state- and district-level climate policy costs (and their distribution) are a function of local carbon …
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Essays on Environmental Economics and Policy
… goods and services. Yet, as with any policy, distributional effects are important there exist clear winners and losers. Despite the clear theoretical justification for environmental and energy policy, empirical work credibly identifying both the source and consequences of these externalities …
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Semiparametric instrumental variable methods for causal response models
… to identify, estimate and test for causal effects of endogenous treatments. These new methods are distinguished by the combination of nonparametric identifying assumptions and semiparametric estimators that provide a parsimoniuous summary of the results. The thesis consists of three essays …
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ESSAYS ON HETEROGENEOUS TREATMENT EFFECTS IN THE LABOR MARKET
… The first two chapters mainly focus on the effects of job displacement on earnings. The first chapter analyzes how the effects of job displacement on earnings vary among natives and immigrants in the United States, while the second chapter studies the distributional effects of job …
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Income and harvest effects of alternative management policies on commercial crab potters in Virginia
… the models were interactive in nature, the effects of various fishery management strategies were also analyzed. The main emphasis of the policy simulations was to discover what impacts the different strategies had on harvest and income levels. The results of the simulations showed that many …
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Has growth in the money supply since 1971 led to increased inequality?
… of testable causal hypotheses, concerning the distributional effects of inflation and credit growth, to be analysed empirically using Granger and kernel causality tests. Based on the results of these tests, a multivariate panel regression model is built to gauge the significance of the selected …
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Simulation-based evaluation of Advanced Traveler Information Services (ATIS)
… market penetration of ATIS can have dramatic effects on the performance of the transportation system in terms of overall benefits conferred as well as the distributional effects between guided and unguided drivers. Because market penetration will be determined both by private market structure …
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Bringing economic inequality into coupled economic-environmental models
… that climate change may cause significant distributional effects within countries. The thesis uses input-output analysis (IOA) to explore how climate change may affect within-country income inequality via two case studies. The first uses a prominent integrated assessment model (IAM), the …
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Mapping sectors for high employment and low carbon growth in South Africa
… pressure to lower its carbon emissions. The distributional effects of a lower carbon growth pathway will be an important part of the overall transition to a lower carbon economy, in South Africa and elsewhere. Previously, sectors have been characterised according to either their employment or …
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Multiobjective real options design : an evaluation methodology for the Orinoco-Meta Corridor megaproject
… - Environmental Impacts, Population Distress, Effects on Employment, Distributional Effects, and Effects on Comparative Advantage. Next, the methodology needs to build-on with Risk Analysis and Decision Analysis to produce the design of real options for the megaproject. The proposed methodology …
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Implementing a time- and location-differentiated cap-and-trade program : flexible nitrogen oxide abatement from power plants in the eastern United States
… less NOx during early summer months when effects on ozone formation are low and emitting more NOx during late summer months when effects on ozone formation are great. This behavior was at once individually rational, environmentally damaging, and perfectly legal. To evaluate potential …
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Low-carbon transformation of the German and European electricity systems
… chapter, ELMOD-DE is applied to analyze the effects of one northern and one southern bidding zone on the German electricity market. The results discuss the effect on re-dispatch levels, deviations in zonal prices, and distributional effects. The third chapter extends ELMOD-DE to a …
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Analysing the effect of financial inclusion on income inequality in Namibia
… and well-being, much is not known about the distributional effects across the different income quintiles. This study contributes to the literature by examining the effect of financial inclusion on household well-being and income inequality in Namibia, using the 2017 nationally representative …
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“Know Your Customer” and the Digital Economy: Global Governance, National Identification, and Financial Access
… questions around competition, state capacity, distributional effects, and the specifics of datafication.
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Essays on International economics by Sergi Basco.
… globalization process but they have different effects within and between countries. The first essay studies the relationship between globalization and the appearance of rational bubbles. It shows that bubbles cannot appear in a financially developed economy in autarky. In contrast, as …
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The inefficiency of open-loop fMRI experiments
… were also reported, along with the network's distributional effects across subjects. When examining DMN levels in 136 subjects more prone to commission errors the mean DMN levels were reported to be higher during and prior to incorrect NoGo responses. Exploring DMN levels in these same …
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