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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Public policy (Law)"”.
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Public policy, law and the black school.
Thesis. 1975. M.C.P.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning.
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Essays on Charitable Organizations and Public Policy
The dissertation analyzes public policies of subsidization and regulation in three contexts. Chapter 1 develops a dynamic bunching empirical design and uses it to estimate the compliance cost that IRS reporting requirements impose on public charities. Chapter 2 estimates the effects of tax and …
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Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics
In the first chapter, I measure the impact of student loan debt on young, college-educated workers' decisions regarding labor supply and enrollment in graduate school. I exploit variation in student loan debt driven by the formulas that determine Federal Student Aid in order to identify these …
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Essays on Health Economics
This dissertation explores the behavior of health care providers and consumers, with a focus on understanding how changes in health policies affect the efficiency and quality of care of health care systems. Chapter 1 evaluates the impact of a change in Medicare reimbursements for nursing wages on …
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Do Politics Matter to this Watchdog? The Effects of Ideology on Civil Enforcement at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
… through a private litigation regime, in a policy area - civil enforcement - that should normatively be mostly free from politics. As a foundation for the study, I analyze the public civil enforcement program and related policy and procedural components of the United States Securities and …
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Three Papers on the Black-White Mobility Gap in the United States
Paper 1: Missing at Random? An Analysis of the Effect of Sample Selection on Intergenerational Earnings Elasticities by Race Utilizing the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, I assess the effect of sample selection bias on estimates of intergenerational earnings elasticities for white and black …
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Three essays on the environment and health in cities
… chapters incorporate elements from economics, public health, and atmospheric science to better understand these issues and the potential policies needed to reconcile problems of urban development and sustainability. In my first chapter, "Transit buses and fetal health: Evaluating the impacts of …
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Teacher Voice
… remedy to, or the cause of, the problems facing public schools. Advocates argue that teachers don't have a sufficient voice in setting educational policy and decision-making while critics maintain that teachers have too strong an influence. This study aims to bring some clarity to the contested …
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What only heaven hears: Citizens and the state in the wake of HIV scale-up in Lesotho
… political processes that continue to change how policy is crafted, how citizens are represented, and which values drive new health initiatives. More fundamentally, HIV initiatives have altered the ways that citizens, patients, and communities perceive themselves, the state, and their political …
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Reproductive Politics, Religion and State Governance in the Philippines
… between the Church and the state has developed, policymaking on reproduction, sexuality and health answers to both development goals and religious norms. At the same time, women's everyday frameworks of (reproductive) meanings are also inextricably bound with state policies and popular culture. …
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Education policy issues in Turkey
Since the mid-1990s, public education provision in Turkey has been in constant transformation, a result of modernization efforts connected to the political determination of governments to complete Turkey's accession to the European Union. During this period two nation-wide reforms stand out due to …
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Essays on Malaria, Environment and Society
… human society and prospects for prosperity, public health measures and anthropogenic environmental change alter the intensity of transmission differentially around the globe. Using global maps of malaria risk, the first chapter finds that the elimination of the disease during the course of …
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Expansion of the New York State Newborn Screening Panel and Krabbe Disease: A Systematic Program Evaluation
… the CDC Framework for Program Evaluation in Public Health, integration of qualitative and quantitative techniques was used to provide a comprehensive evaluation. Stakeholder input was elicited using semi-structured interviews of medical professionals and parents and content analysis of the …
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The Money Value of Risk: Life Insurance and the Transformation of American Public Health, 1896-1930
… insurance industry with the emerging field of public health during the Progressive era. By conducting research, promoting hygiene, and providing the services of visiting nurses, firms such as Metropolitan Life and the Prudential transferred their ideologies and methodologies into the wider …
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Essays on the Political Economy of Redistributive and Allocation Policies in Competitive Democracies
… the effect of ideological preferences over the public provision of goods on the scope of government and the political redistribution of income. I first point out that the presence of both ideological politicians who compete for office and electoral uncertainty generates a partisanship effect. In …
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Origins and Use of Presidential Polling in Mexico, Presidential Approval in Mexico, Government Spending and Public Opinion in Mexico
… and use of presidential polling, its role in the policy activity of the president, and the dynamics of presidential approval between 1989 and 2011. The dissertation draws upon the presidential polling, opinion-policy and approval research done in the United States. The first paper explores a topic …
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The Fox Guarding the Henhouse: Coregulation and Consumer Protection in Food Safety, 1946 – 2002
… they should accomplish that goal. When American policymakers first attempted to shift food inspection responsibilities from federal agents to company employees during the 1970s, federal inspectors and consumers denounced these reforms as “the fox guarding the hen house.” Yet, as late as 2002, …