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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Socioeconomic Outcomes"”.
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Long-term Benefits of Extracurricular Activities on Socioeconomic Outcomes and Their Trends in 1988-2012
… policy may have a significant impact on future outcomes, as reflected in student success measures. Using two datasets that were collected over the last two decades, in the present study, the researcher assessed the relationship between participation in extracurricular activities and the future …
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Workfare and the Great Recession: Socioeconomic Outcomes among Black, White, and Hispanic Mothers in the Era of Work-First Welfare
… during the Great Recession of 2008 by comparing socioeconomic outcomes among TANF recipients and similarly situated 'non-entrants' with an added focus on racial disparities in these outcome measures. Also, the role of state-level policy context is explored by assessing employment, income, and …
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Pre-treatment Level of Opioid Use as a Predictor of Chronic Pain Rehabilitation Outcome
… between pre-treatment opioid use and treatment outcomes among 1,226 chronic pain patients who participated in a functional restoration program. Patients were divided into five categories based on self-reported pre-treatment level of opioid use. Patients received an initial evaluation prior to …
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Building prosperous communities: the effects of social capital, financial capital, and place
… and alternative explanations for observed socioeconomic outcomes. If planners and policy makers are to utilize the power of a deeper understanding of how social relationships influence development actions, research inquiries must use the proper scale of analysis and test for mitigating and …
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Towards an epidemiology of gentrification : modeling urban change as a probabilistic process using k-means clustering and Markov models
… policy, and for developers to foresee investment outcomes. Current planning policy addresses the symptoms of gentrification, without defining the underlying construct of the process. This thesis examines latent constructs of gentrification through a data-driven process that identifies emergent …
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Heterogenous Trajectories Of Depressive Symptoms From Adolescence To Young Adulthood: Non-Cognitive Risk Factors And Labor Market Outcomes
… them using impactful labor market outcomes. Latent growth mixture modeling (GMM) was used to assess and classify depressive symptom change trajectories using four occasions of measurement from 1994 to 2008. The study used the public-use dataset from the National Study of Adolescent …
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Investigating water and electricity service delivery on South African economic transformation
… constrain economic transformation and exacerbate socioeconomic inequalities. This study examines the relationship between water and electricity service delivery and South Africa’s economic transformation, with a particular focus on household perceptions, governance factors, and spatial …
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Complementary Currencies: A Systems Theory Approach to Monetary Macroeconomics
… and the notion that this may enable improved socioeconomic outcomes has been proposed in narratives across various disciplines. However, orthodox macroeconomic theory presupposes that national economies operate optimally when a single monetary unit is employed: general equilibrium optimisation …
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The relationship between art non-adherence and the quality of life, psychological distress and coping strategies of persons living with HIV/aids and their families in Tripoli, Libya
… the risk of adverse medical, psychological, and socioeconomic outcomes for people living with HIV/AIDS. In Libya, limited research has examined the psychosocial factors associated with ART adherence and quality of life (QoL). This study investigated the relationships between ART adherence status, …
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Intergenerational mobility in South Africa: how much has South Africa changed since the early 1990s?
… which continues to influence the post-apartheid socioeconomic outcomes. This thesis examines changes over time in the relationship between the education and earnings of South African parents and their children once these are adults. The study uses two independent surveys, one collected in the …
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Economic consequences of cancer in adolescents and young adults
… addresses the knowledge gaps on the economic outcomes of AYAs surviving cancer compared with the general population. The first study presents a systematic review to synthesize published evidence on the socioeconomic outcomes of AYAs surviving cancer. The review identified no evidence of a …
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Essays on the Long-term Effects of Childhood Chronic Conditions
… physical, mental/developmental) on health and socioeconomic outcomes in young adulthood. Across three studies, I address issues pertaining to underlying mechanisms, sources of heterogeneity, and comparatively examine the effects of different conditions. I draw on survey and administrative tax …
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Multidimensional ethno-racial status in Latin American contexts of mestizaje
… skin colors are inversely associated with both socioeconomic outcomes. Moreover, white self-identification compared to mestizo is negatively associated with educational attainment, but positively associated with household possessions. This study unveils ethno-racial ideologies as relevant …
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Leveraging public land ownership in the urban land market for commercial property development to achieve socio-economic outcomes in South Africa
… for commercial property development to achieve socioeconomic outcomes in the urban land market. Local governments can achieve this by leading, shaping and unlocking development potential through direct supply of land, land use allocation, and facilitating, expediting and incentivising …
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Three Essays in Population Economics
… resources, and influence members’ economic outcomes.</p><p>Recognizing the importance of understanding how families allocate resources among their members for policy design and evaluation, my first chapter focuses on resource allocations of extended families. This work is the first to make …
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Essays on health economics and development policies
… in utero exposure to malaria and long-term adult socioeconomic conditions in Brazil, which documents the positive effects of malaria eradication on educational attainment. The second chapter refers to the connection between early childhood environment and adult health by exploring the potential …
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The impact of household energy access on socio-economic outcomes in Zambia
… of electrification technology on household socioeconomic outcomes. The study emphasizes the need to understand the differential impact of household adoption of grid versus off-grid (standalone solar home systems) electricity on nonfarm employment, monthly income, and expenditure of the …