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Showing 1 to 20 of 61 for “"Government programs"”.
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The effect of government programs on the labor supply of the elderly
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1996.
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Micro-econometric studies of how government programs affect labor supply and saving in Mexico
… analyzes the micro-economic effects of different government programs on the savings and labor supply behavior of Mexican households and individuals. The first two chapters deal with household saving behavior and government intervention. Chapter 1 assesses the impact of increasing financial access …
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Food security in Public Health and other government programs in British Columbia, Canada: A policy analysis
… in British Columbia. Food security policy, programs and infrastructure have been integrated into the Public Health sector and other areas of government, including the adoption of food security as a Core Public Health program. This policy analysis of the integration merges findings from …
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An assessment of the impact of landscape soil, government programs and crop insurance on the profitability of perennial grass cropping systems grown for bioenergy
… grass yields to demonstrate how landscape soils, government programs like Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP), and crop insurance affect the decision to plant bioenergy crops. The analysis assumes that the producers are risk averse and seek to maximize utility. Results show that perennial …
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Mobile Service Delivery: a systematic literature review of m-Government in South Africa
… Technologies (ICTs) has transformed how governments deliver public services to citizens. However, research has highlighted the inadequacy of electronic government (e-government) to improve public service delivery, particularly in the developing world. The ubiquitous nature of mobile …
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Farmer participation in government commodity programs: A multiyear risk management analysis
Government programs for agricultural commodities affect planting decisions and farm income for many producers. Many proposals to reduce federal expenditures are being considered for reform in the 1995 Farm Bill. In order to determine the effect of these proposals on both farmers and government, the …
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Examining the Role of Well-Being in Government
… of meritocracy influenced support for government programs aimed at increasing societal well-being. Some research has been conducted to determine how living within countries and U.S. states under either liberal or conservative control can impact the well-being of the populace (Valdmanis, …
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Essays in Applied Microeconomics
This dissertation broadly focuses on the role government should play in providing and financing education. The first chapter estimates the economic incidence of need-based student aid, one tool intended to ameliorate credit constraints in the market for higher education. The second chapter examines …
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Optimal dynamic marketing strategies for grain producers: A case study of winter wheat
… firm, marketing constraints of the producer and government programs. The stochastic dynamic programming model's objective function is to maximize the expected value of after-tax wealth. State variables considered in the analysis are (1) cash grain price, (2) basis level (futures minus cash), (3) …
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Works of Art, Arts for Work: Caroline Wogan Durieux, the Works Progress Administration, and the U.S. State Department
The New Deal was one of the largest government programs implemented in the twentieth century. Yet only recently have historians begun to explore the impact of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) on American culture by studying its smaller programs such as the Federal Writer's, Theatre, and Art …
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Historical regimes of socio-natures in farmlands: practices of conventional farming in Fukuoka, Japan
… the 2005-2007 “Agriculture’s Blessings” government program (which subsidized farmers for investigating rice paddy bugs and other creatures and reducing pesticide use), and the Agricultural Land, Water, and the Environment Preservation and Improvement Policy, 2007-2011. I argue that the …
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Integrated production and marketing risk management for cash grain producers of Virginia's Northern Neck region:a target MOTAD analysis
… futures, cash contracting, and participation in government commodity programs and crop insurance programs. Unlike most previous studies which have treated the decision-making process as a single period process, this study formulates the problem as a recursive two-stage model. The mean forecast …
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Food Insecure COPD Patients and Healthcare Utilization: A Retrospective Study
… <p><strong>Background/Rationale:</strong> Government programs targeting patients with high healthcare costs focus on clinical conditions, factors internal to the healthcare system and individual patient education. There has been recent interest in addressing modifiable social determinants …
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Strategies Ambulatory Practice Leaders Use In Optimizing Electronic Medical Record Systems
… by ambulatory care practices due to federal government programs encouraging their rapid adoption and implementation. The accelerated implementation and adoption of these digital care systems introduced new forms of administrative burdens that have become negatively associated with the …
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The sponsor strikes back: Interacting with a budget-maximizing bureau
… the sponsor has its own incentives for large government programs, which may reinforce the budget-maximizing bureau's tendency toward overproduction. This formulation makes explicit the usually implicit assumptions about alternative (private) suppliers of the bureau's service, and approaches …
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Why do poor people demand accountability from some participatory programs and not others?
… of citizens to demand accountability, over government programs improves program performance. Yet little is known about the conditions that enable citizens/beneficiaries to demand accountability. This dissertation approaches this void in the literature by comparing two Community Driven …
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Three Essays on Public Policy: Physician Labor Supply, Food Insecurity, and Income Inequality
… broadly explores how public policies and government programs affect individual behavior and how effectively they alleviate inequality and poverty.</p> <p>Chapter 1 estimates the impact of a transitory reduction in hours during physicians’ early career on their long-term labor supply. I …
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Predicting and Equipping Private Well Owners at Risk of Microbial Contamination After Flooding Events in the Alabama Black Belt
… in place for private wells. While state government programs provide guidance on well treatment and testing, the obligation lies on well-owners to monitor and maintain the health of their private systems. Although groundwater is generally low in contaminants, septic system failures due to …
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From housing rights to housing provision : two case studies in the trajectory of the housing rights movement & the development of community housing in Australia, 1975-1996
… and political framework for analysing two small government programs, the Victorian Rental Housing Co-operative Program and the Local Government and Community Housing Program, through which community housing principles were introduced into Australian public housing policy. The context for this …
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Elazar's Political Culture: Is It Applicable Today?
… magnitude, costs, and innovative character of government programs. He used simple correlation, Pearson’s r, to determine whether political culture had any influence on the 23 dependent variables that he arranged under the three different measures. Then, he tested for partial correlation, using …
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