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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Welfare Economics"”.
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An application of optimal control theory in welfare economics
… maximization of a functional representing social welfare over continuous time. A social welfare functional (SWF) is an integral that models social welfare as a function of individual consumption, individual utility of consumption and the value of utility aggregated across individuals. A SWF may be …
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Three essays on the criteria to be used in welfare economics
… as a criterion for an increase in actual social welfare) with an extension of this quasi-ordering to the power set of this set (interpreted as a criterion for an increase in potential social welfare) to obtain a quasi-ordering of some subset of the Cartesian product of this set and its power set …
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The price of Mauri: Exploring the validity of welfare economics when seeking to measure Mātauranga Māori
… of this thesis is to explore the validity of welfare economics when seeking to measure quantitatively Mātauranga Māori or Māori views of the environment through the contingent valuation method. A contingent valuation study is carried out using three separate samples drawn from the general …
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The welfare economics and the political economy of Japanese beef trade liberalization: An empirical application of new political economy theory
Agricultural trade protection has been common in most industrialized nations for the last decades. While economic inefficiency of trade protection policy has been argued, the assertion may not hold if institutions functioning in economic equilibrium are appropriately recognized. Becker proposes …
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Application of cost benefit analysis to the expanded food and nutrition education program
… exceed potential costs to society. A review of welfare economics literature and applications of the CBA model to health, education, and nutrition is presented. CBA for use in the Cooperative Extension Service Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) is then systematically examined …
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Economic evaluation of health care : cautions for the developing country context
Health economics has expanded enormously as a sub-discipline in the last four decades, drawing primarily on the theoretical foundations of welfare economics. The toolkit for the economic evaluation of health care now extends from the humble cost-minimisation exercise, through cost effectiveness …
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Essays on airport and airway congestion
… has assumed that these remedies are justified by welfare economics, but there is relatively little focus on these justifications. We explore the economic arguments for and against using various market-based approaches to treating airport congestion. The second essay examines the relationship …
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Why we need to talk about preferences: A federalist proposal
… is arguably the most central concept in economics and the discipline is very explicit about the structural assumptions that preferences are supposed to satisfy, there is neither an explicit definition of the concept in economic textbooks nor much of a current debate in the discipline. …
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Brownfield financing in the United States : from social benefit-cost perspective
… local levels. Second, based on externality and welfare economics theories, I propose an optimal funding-decision flow chart. Third, by testing my hypothesis on three brownfield cases in Massachusetts, I perform social benefit-cost analyses and determine whether brownfield funds were justified by …
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The intergenerational ethics of climate change : the failure of cost-benefit analysis as a normative framework
… public policy that developed out of the field of welfare economics-fails as a normative framework for intergenerational policy. For one, by aggregating costs and benefits across all generations, it ignores that what matters is each generation. For another, by reducing all value into a unitary …
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Towards the development of a grounded framework of context as tool for linking rural community development needs to ICT policy and implementation in the Dr J.S. Moroka Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa
… technology, economy, governance, social welfare, and stakeholders in these communities. Through a grounded methodology approach a theory of context was developed for the rural community in the Dr J.S. Moroka Municipality in Mpumalanga, South Africa. The elements of the framework that …
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Economic Welfare Of Firefighting Service In Detroit
… fire service with regard to overall social welfare. Finally, I employ equity mapping in a case study to assess the effect of a budget cut on equity of fire service allocation in Detroit.</p> <p>Chapter 2 examines whether socio-economic factors, various aspects of housing, and spatial …
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Do Water Access Inequalities Matter for Child Mortality? A perspective from low-and-middle-income countries
… determinants of child mortality from a health economics perspective (ii), clarifying the concept of socioeconomic inequalities in water access from a welfare economics perspective (iii), highlighting a plausible economic transmission channel (iv), and selecting concentration index approach as a …
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Three essays on ownership structure and firm focus: The impact of ownership structure on the corporate sell-off decision; The long term impact on the firm from large sell-offs; The relationship between ownership structure, firm focus, and Tobin's Q.
… to be directed toward maximizing decision makers welfare. Economics and Strategic Management attribute value to the composition of assets and the level of firm focus. A firm may create value by diversifying for synergy reasons; however, an overdiversified firm may also be a function of managerial …
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Context-conscious fairness throughout the machine learning lifecycle
… including non-discrimination law, statistics, welfare economics, philosophical ethics, and computer science. Literature on algorithmic fairness has predominantly been published in computer science, and while it has been shifting to consider contextual implications, many approaches crystallised …
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Genetically Engineered Herbicide Tolerant Canola: A Multiple Account Evaluation
… surplus are estimated using the theory of welfare economics. Regional economic impact is also estimated using multipliers provided through input output analysis. The benefits to the environment are estimated using an integrated economic-environmental model. The study estimates the adoption …
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Pragmatism and Effective Altruism: An Essay on Epistemology and Practical Ethics
… Years (QALYs), a popular measure in contemporary welfare economics, they provide a “universal currency for misery” for evaluating decisions. Through this method, one can calculate exactly the value of each moral decision by identifying which one yields more QALYs, and, apparently, objectively come …
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Land use, spatial structure, and regional economic performance: assessing the economic effects of land use planning and regulation
… way of justification, in addition to traditional welfare-economics-based rationales, has been adopted to give reason for land use planning, not much empirical evidence supporting the claim has been reported. In order to fill this gap, this study attempts to empirically validate the argument by …
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