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Showing 1 to 20 of 850 for “"and Equity"”.
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Healthcare Access and Equity
… three essays examining healthcare access and equity in developing contexts, with a focus on India. The first essay investigates patient behavior in hospital selection following the implementation of a universal insurance program, shedding light on factors influencing healthcare utilization …
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Critical- Diversity, Belongingness, Inclusion, and Equity SEL
<p>The social and civil unrest across the United States has ignited a call for more school-based social and emotional learning (SEL) frameworks and practices that are social justice-oriented. The Collaborative for Academic and Social Emotional Learning (CASEL) is one of the organizations that chose …
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Stability, Efficiency, and Equity in Network Formation Games
… to reach pairwise stability (defined by Jackson and Wolinsky 1996), giving particular attention to the utility functions governing the growth of the network. By pairing the assumptions of game theory, social network analysis, and international relations, the program simulates the conditions of an …
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Test optional admissions, student persistence, and equity in higher education
… has prompted substantial reconsideration of equity, merit, and access (Hiss & Franks, 2014; Zwick, 2019). However, limited evidence exists regarding whether the removal of standardized testing requirements affects student persistence, particularly among historically underserved populations …
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Decentralizing Power: Enabling Local Energy Resilience and Equity in Accra
… dimensions such as reliability, affordability, equity, and resilience, particularly under intensifying climate and urban pressures. My thesis investigates persistent energy insecurity in Accra, Ghana’s capital, through the lens of dumsor—a term used to describe recurring power outages that …
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Linkages between U.S Cross-border Portfolio Equity Flows and Equity Markets
There is an ongoing debate over the role that equity markets play in determining and influencing international equity flows. The first chapter of this dissertation describes the large portfolio equity flows into China and India, in order to understand the buying behavior of US investors. The rapid …
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Oil Price Movements and Equity Returns: Evidence from the GCC Countries
… what extent how oil movements differently affect equity returns in general and sectoral levels of the GCC countries stock markets. Modeling the equity returns volatility requires using GARCH-type models. These models help to explore the pronounced differences of the conditional variance structures …
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Social indicators of efficiency and equity convergence in four distressed regions
… indicators) which mirror or proxy for efficiency and equity. Social indicators can thus be employed to judge national versus regional welfare tradeoffs as incremental changes are made. Furthermore, such indexes provide a mechanism which can continuously monitor the system in effect, provide data …
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Essays on external debt and equity finance for UK small businesses
… three empirical studies related to external debt and equity finance for UK small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The first explores the developments in bank credit market conditions over the period 2010-2017. The evidence suggests that business overdrafts and term loans show slightly …
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The effects of licensing and equity financing cycles on pharmaceutical development
… the interactions between licensing status, equity issuance cycles, and drug development success at the small pharmaceutical companies that originate these development projects. Specifically, this paper is aimed at identifying how financing alternatives available to small pharmaceutical …
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Exploring Trauma-Informed Practice and Equity in Vancouver’s DTES and Chinatown Programming
… was conducted following the Royal Roads Research and Ethics Policy, and in partnership with the Collaborative, a non-profit organization working to improve housing security and habitability for tenants living in Single Room Occupancy Buildings (SROs) in Vancouver’s DTES and Chinatown …
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Multi-Factor Dynamic Modelling and Forecasting of Interest Rates and Equity Markets
… this thesis, several theoretical specifications and estimation techniques are employed towards the dynamic modelling and forecasting of the term structure of interest rates, both independently and in conjunction with equity markets. The first empirical investigation is motivated by the recent …
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Ethnographic Narrative Project (Resilience, Love and Equity: First Year Teaching Vol.1 )
… result of reflecting on their teaching practice and how they meet their program’s social justice competencies. The paper also relies on case studies of three students with different needs: a student who is linguistically diverse, a student with special needs, and a student who has experienced …
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Climate Change Policy in an Enlarged European Union: Institutions, Efficiency, and Equity
… to analyze different notions of efficiency and equity have been developed.
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Access and equity issues at UCLA in a post-affirmative action era
… investigates the admissions of Chicano/Latinos and African American students in a post affirmative action era at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Data was collected and analyzed from the University of California Office of the President (UCOP) from 1989-2008 it examines admission …
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Health care financing and expenditure in Malawi : do efficiency and equity matter?
… 6.2% of its total revenue on health services and this is much high than most other Sub- Saharan African countries (e.g. Zambia, Kenya, Uganda). Despite such high levels of public expenditure, Malawi’s social and health indicators are among the worst in the world. The majority of the Malawian …
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Spatial dimensions of energy politics: Geography and equity in the Illinois energy transition
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-05-01
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