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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Household Behavior"”.
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Social Safety Net Programs and Household Behavior
… of social safety net programs on beneficiary behavior in India. The first paper uses data from the National Sample Survey, a nationally representative survey of Indian households, to study the impact of expanding government food aid on child labor and school attendance. Beginning 2001, the …
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Evaluating the effects of the footprint-based cafe standard on auto manufacturers and household behavior
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-12-01
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Essays in applied microeconometrics
… investigating micro economic issues concerning household behavior by means of econometric methods. Each of the chapters is self-contained.
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Modeling household residential choice using multiple imputation
Households are one of the core agents in the urban system. Household behavior plays a crucial role in urban system performance and can profoundly shape the urban landscape. This thesis examines households' behavior in the housing market. Current integrated urban systems models provide few insights …
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ESSAYS ON HOUSEHOLD DEMAND FOR CREDIT CARDS, BANKRUPTCY AND OVER-SPENDING
Studying household finance and behavior is important not only for understanding the micro level behavior, but also to have a better understanding of the whole economy. The study of household behavior become even more important after the 2007 housing crises, and the giant effect it had (and is still …
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Gender-differentiated constraints in Malian semi-subsistence production: implication for integrated pest management and food security
… in the last decade to understand the complex household behavior patterns and structures of Mali’s crop production systems and incorporate them into the prevailing research paradigms, information is still lagging in terms of knowledge related to the impacts of gender in agricultural production. …
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Essays on Macroeconomic Implications of International Capital Flow and Fiscal Uncertainty
… by showing how subtle characteristics of household behavior interact with fungible aid and institutional factors to impact aid effectiveness. Specifically, I build a simple dynamic optimizing model and show that the way consumers internalize an aid induced increase in government spending …
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Essays in Financial Economics
… essay studies the issue of loss-aversion and household portfolio choice. Calibrated models of household portfolio choice generate two counterfactual predictions: that all households will participate in equity markets, and that households will allocate all of their wealth to equity. In this …
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The air pollution implications of the residential sector : case study of the Mexico City Metropolitan Area
… will increase considerably. Additionally, households have wide-reaching impacts on many sectors including industry through the demand for appliances, power generation and fuel suppliers through the demand for energy, services through the demand for infrastructure, and many more. Through …
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Analysis and Evaluation of Household Pick-up and Gathering Behavior in No-Notice Evacuations
… during the daytime. They may seek to gather the household members first and evacuate as a unit, and parents may head in the "wrong" direction to pick up their children from schools/daycare centers. Many previous studies have acknowledged that such behavior exists but few, if any, have examined it …
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Targeting Audiences for Improved Lawn Management: Can Grouping Households Assist with Nonpoint Water Pollution Reduction
In urban ecosystems, households are important decision-making units that are resource consumers and contributors to urban water pollution. At the landscape level, individual household choices regarding lawn management vary greatly, contributing to the detriment or protection of water resources. To …
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Household economies of scale, food consumption and intra-household allocation of time
… tests three utility theoretic models of the household behavior. Larger households economize money and time by sharing expenses and specializing labor within and outside of the home. A “paradox” arises when the budget share of food declines with household size in the consumer expenditure …
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Essays on Smallholder Behavior in Response to Resource Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa
… which in turn can amplify negative impacts on households. Social protection programs need to account for potential increases in seasonal price variability in the design of programs to enhance household resilience to weather shocks. To better understand the household behavior that gives rise to …
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An Agent-based Travel Demand Model System for Hurricane Evacuation Simulation
This dissertation investigates the evacuees' behavior under hurricane evacuation conditions and develops an agent-based travel demand model system for hurricane evacuation simulation using these behavioral findings. The dissertation econometrically models several important evacuation decisions …
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Essays on Banking and Local Credit Markets
… chapter uses a cash demand framework to model household credit decisions when there are both fixed and marginal costs associated with borrowing. In standard models of credit demand, the price associated with a loan is simply the interest rate. In reality, however, loan contracts encompass many …
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Essays on taxation: positive and normative aspects
… the use of tax incentives, is able to encourage household savings. This essay analyzes the impact of the 1990 Education Savings Bond Program. This policy created an additional tax incentive for owners of existing government savings bonds, by allowing interest earnings to be exempt from income …
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The economic well-being of married women in a comparative perspective: The effect of income, work and union on financial satisfaction.
… the bargaining perspective highlights that the household behaviour depends largely on family dynamics and a bargain between the partners. There is large empirical evidence against unitary models of household behavior and this chapter presents another contribution to the relevant empirics. I …
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Planning for land-use and transportation alternatives : towards household activity-based urban modeling for sustainable futures
… begun generating a much richer, activity-based behavioral framework to replace the conventional aggregate, four-step approaches. However, to date, the framework remains to be completed, at least enough to provide a robust behavioral foundation that incorporates household long-term behaviors with …
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Forests and fisheries in the Brazilian Amazon: Understanding incentives to comply with conservation efforts
… represents an effort to understand individual behavior leading to decisions regarding natural resource use and compliance with conservation policy at the government and at the community levels through the analysis of specific cases in the Brazilian Amazon. I first analyze the case of …
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Essays on Government Transfers and Labor Markets
This dissertation consists of three chapters. In the first chapter, I document a small spousal earnings response to the job displacement of the family head. The response is even smaller in recessions when earnings losses are larger and additional insurance is most valuable. I investigate whether …
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