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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Spatial panel"”.
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Interdepdence Of Community Mental Health Care Providers In An Urban County: A Spatial Panel Approach
… community mental health care providers, using a spatial panel data model. Specifically, it explores the spatial interdependency in the publicly funded mental health care system of Detroit-Wayne County with a spatial dynamic panel data model with individual effects and other controls. A …
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Three Essays on Investigating Province-Level Carbon Dioxide Emissions in China
… emission intensity is convergence, and how the spatial panel data models perform in forecasting against non-spatial panel data models for province-level carbon dioxide emissions in China.;The first essay entitled "Spatial Analysis of China Province-Level CO 2 Emission Intensity" offers a unique …
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An analysis of household water consumption in the City of Cape Town using a panel data set (2016-2020)
… As a result, the aggregated data is a balanced spatial panel dataset including 20 quarterly observations for each of the 88 wards. Using the billing data set, multiple linear regression models, panel data models as well as spatial panel models were implemented to predict ward level water …
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Essays on Industrial Agglomeration and Input-Output Linkages
… dimensions call for research that can take both spatial and industry factors into consideration regarding industrial agglomeration. Despite the advance of economic theories on agglomeration, empirical studies that satisfactorily incorporate spatial and industrial dimensions are very few. My …
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Essays in Financial Development and Income Inequality
… development and income inequality based on spatial data analysis. As is well known, provincial Gini coefficients are not available for a few provinces and for certain years. To deal with this missing data, a GMM regression was estimated by using available data to obtain predicted values for …
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Impacts of crop insurance on cash rents
… products impact cash rents paid for farmland. A spatial panel model is employed to control for spatial dependence and heterogeneity in cash rental rates. Results show that producers factor a statistically significant proportion of the value received from crop insurance into cash rents. However, …
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Sacred politics : religious leaders and conflict in Israel
… communication of different religious leaders, spatial panel data showing the electoral impact of religious institutions, and a novel experimental design where I vary the credibility of religious leaders using religious sermons. This dissertation offers significant social science contributions …
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Three essays on housing economics
… includes two chapters that investigate the spatial behavior of housing price and its volatility and one chapter that focuses on a more fundamental housing issue. The first chapter examines the spatial variation of housing price volatility. I develop a flexible spatial volatility model for …
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Regional Resilience: Are recessionary shocks persistent or transitory?
… has a well-established literature in both spatial econometrics and in mainstream econometrics and is of considerable importance given the post-2008 economic crisis, which is characterised by a period of severe global instability resulting from unprecedented economic shocks. Martin et al. …
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Persisting Social Vulnerability, Stormwater Infrastructure, and Planning for Flooding and Resilience in Washington D.C.
… Limited empirical studies have explored its spatial distribution and temporal changes in relation to the whole stormwater infrastructure. This dissertation investigates the intersection of stormwater infrastructure, social vulnerability, and urban flood management strategies in Washington, …
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Three papers in regional economics: energy productivity convergence, water resource planning, and workforce occupation-industry dynamics
… natural resource and human capital, by taking spatial heterogeneities and relationships into consideration. The first paper empirically tests the trade-facilitated technology spillovers in the convergence of energy productivities at the disaggregated manufacturing sectors across European Union …
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A Spatial Econometric Analysis of Selected Local Labour Market Outcomes in New Zealand
… respond to local or external shocks, taking spatial dependencies into account. The first aspect considered is the change in regional employment outcomes in New Zealand from the 1980’s to 2006. This is examined using shiftshare techniques supplemented by exploratory spatial data analysis. The …
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Three essays on the spatial analysis of sustainable dairy farming in New Zealand
… the impact of farmer choice on the environment. Spatial spillover effects, which are considered as important issues at either the regional level or farm-level decision-making, are addressed in all three essays. As the New Zealand dairy industry faces the challenge of increasing productivity and …
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Firm failure processes and determinants of failure in EU countries and UK regions: a quantitative analysis of SMEs.
… of geographical location and the existence of spatial interactions in some parts of firms' transition to failure. As such, this thesis consolidates and analyses evidence from qualitative firm failure process studies and from wider firm failure studies in the context of quantitative firm failure …
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Three essays in spatial econometrics
A focus on location and spatial interaction has recently gained a more central place not only in applied econometrics but also in theoretical econometrics. The standard econometric techniques often fail in the presence of spatial autocorrelation, which is commonplace in geographic (cross-sectional) …
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Food Environment and Childhood Obesity
… attendance areas. After applying classical panel estimation, it was found that the fixed effects model fit the data best. Results indicate that an additional supermarket within a one-mile radial of the census neighborhood block center will bring down childhood obesity prevalence by 0.58 …