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Showing 1 to 20 of 108 for “"Policy evaluation"”.
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Essays on Econometrics and Policy Evaluation
… control methods and their application to public policy evaluation and the digital economy. The first chapter, co-written with Ahmet Gulek, proposes a Synthetic Instrumental Variables (SIV) estimator for panel data that combines the strengths of instrumental variables and synthetic controls to …
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Essays in policy evaluation and labor economics
This dissertation contains three chapters. The first chapter evaluates the effect of a gun control act in California. State legislators in the U.S. are striving to curb gun violence. A common approach is to extend the existing firearms ban list. This paper examines the effect of legislation …
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World Food Projection Models, Projections, and Policy Evaluation
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Chinese housing policy: Sociohistorical analysis and policy evaluation
This research analyzes housing policies in the People's Republic of China in the following three ways. First, it describes the current state of Chinese housing and housing policies. Second, it explores how Chinese housing policies have been influenced by the country's political and economic …
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Behavioral responses and policy evaluation: Revisiting water and fuel policies
… and simultaneously quantify the magnitude of the policy effectiveness and the speed at which the policies take effect. I find that while both input- and output-based policies are able to induce a significant reduction in fertilizer application, input-based policies are more cost-effective than …
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Benchmarking Reinforcement Learning and Off Policy Evaluation for Medical Decision Making
… offline RL models as well as five common off-policy evaluation (OPE) techniques. My results suggest that while offline RL may be capable of improving upon existing standards of care given large data availability, its applicability does not appear to extend to the moderate to low data regimes …
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Essays in Empirical Policy Evaluation: COVID-19 fiscal policy and the early release of superannuation
This thesis provides the first detailed evaluation of the Australian government's decision in March 2020 to permit the early release of up to $20,000 in lump sum withdrawals from people's superannuation (private pension) accounts. It makes several contributions to economic literature. First, we …
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Essays in Empirical Policy Evaluation: COVID-19 fiscal policy and the early release of superannuation
This thesis provides the first detailed evaluation of the Australian government's decision in March 2020 to permit the early release of up to $20,000 in lump sum withdrawals from people's superannuation (private pension) accounts. It makes several contributions to economic literature. First, we …
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Social policy evaluation: How did the 1996 Welfare Reform Legislation influence unmarried Teen Birth rates in Texas Counties
… Legislation radically changed a 61-year-old policy of providing welfare benefits to eligible low-income mothers and their children. Despite a lack of evidence, current welfare policies are being implemented based on the belief that welfare restrictions and sanctions can change the …
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A policy evaluation of the Bologna Declaration and its impacts on the United States' leadership status in the globalized higher education market
… theoretical framework, I have conducted a policy analysis of the implications of globalized competition in higher education, and examined responses to the Bologna Declaration and other international student competition influences from the top twenty international student-enrolling …
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Child and adolescent mental health services in the Western Cape of South Africa: policy evaluation, situational analysis, stakeholder perspectives, and implications for health policy implementation
… across the full healthcare system through policy development and implementation. We proposed that a comprehensive understanding of specific services requires a multilevel exploration of ‘hardware' (structural) and ‘software' (social) elements in the health systems that support these …
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Tax Accounting Method and Offshore Petroleum Development: A Policy Evaluation Model Employing Royalty Equivalents and Excise Taxes (Oil and Gas, Capital Budgeting, Simulation, Capitalization, Net Present Value)
The general goal of this research was to develop a methodology by which a government might choose a tax accounting method that would maximize the net present value of government revenues from a class of projects. The industry selected was offshore petroleum. The impact of tax accounting methods on …
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Exploring Dynamic Constraint Enforcement and Efficiency in Access Control
… specification correctly enforces a given dynamic policy is an open research question. This is mainly due to the nature of the dynamic constraint enforcement: a constraint satisfied at a state can be violated at a future state as a result of the event sequences occurred in between. Moreover, the …
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Three essays on public policy in Latin America: labor markets, education, and measurement
… educational choices, and ways to improve policy evaluation methods.
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Experimentation and Control in Online Platforms
… via an experiment or logging of some incumbent policy, and hopes to use this data to evaluate new control policies or improve existing ones. This thesis explores the statistical challenges involved in learning about policies in such an environment, where sample efficiency is paramount. One …
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Spatial processes in environmental economics: empirics and theory
… have important implications for estimation, policy evaluation and prediction in models of economic activity. This thesis is comprised of two parts. Part I presents a broad range of issues that arise in estimation due to space and frames these as general spatial omitted variables. I explore …
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Labour market policy and poverty : exploring the macro-micro linkages of minimum wages and wage subsidies
… to the South African literature on labour market policy evaluation and their poverty impacts in general, and minimum wages and wage subsidies in particular, both in terms of the theoretical and descriptive analyses provided. Various possible modelling approaches are explored, with careful …
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Evaluation of health programs: application of social cost benefit analysis in the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme listing of Australia
… philosophy, which provides a new approach to evaluation and analysis of economic activities, is increasing within the literature. It is argued in this thesis that valuation and analysis in health economics and health programs (normative health economics) should be based on these recent …
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