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Essays on Applied Economics
This is a compilation of three applied economic analyses. In the first analysis, college choice for a sample of students from the National Educational Longitudinal Study of 1988 who have expressed a desire to attend college is analyzed using a multinomial logit framework. For this select sample of …
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Essays in applied economics
This dissertation is composed of three chapters, the first demonstrates that natural gas violates many of the simplifying assumptions frequently used in modeling its behavior. Careful analysis of futures contracts written on gas suggests that gas prices are seasonal while returns are non-Gaussian …
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Essays in Applied Economics
The first chapter of this dissertation, which is jointly written with Mayara Felix, asks: Who are the winners and losers as businesses increasingly rely on outsourced workers instead of direct employees to perform services such as security and cleaning? How large are the benefits of domestic …
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Three Essays in Applied Economics
… the overlapping generation model, developmental economics, and behavioral response to taxation. The first essay aims to investigate how a shift in income from young age to old age would change the equilibrium path for the economy. The second essay explores and estimates the connections between …
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Three Essays in Applied Economics
In this thesis I present three essays that explore various economic situations on strategic choices from different perspectives: the individuals’ strategic decision to work on the informal/formal sector, the US strategic decision on the provision of foreign aid, and the firm’s strategic decision to …
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Three Essays in Applied Economics
… Emanuele Ciani, has a specific focus on family economics. We provide evidence that parents who helped their adult children in the past are rewarded by higher chances of receiving informal care later in life. To this purpose we use Italian data containing retrospective information about help with …
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Three essays in applied economics
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-09-16 without embargo terms
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Three Essays on Applied Economics
… States and Japan," published in Agricultural Economics. While the earlier study employed discrete thresholds and kink approaches to explore migration patterns in developed countries such as Japan and the United States, it did not reveal significant nonlinear relationships. This led me to …
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Essays in Applied Economics Linking Policy, Obesity, and Health Economics
Chapter 1: Improved Health Insurance Coverage Rates for Adults with Low-Income and Chronic Disease Conditions: Evidence from 2014 Medicaid Expansion. This study examined health insurance coverage rates among low-income adults with chronic disease conditions before and after Medicaid expansion under …
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Three essays in applied economics: an evaluation of Brazilian public policies
My dissertation is composed by three essays with ex-post evaluations of public policies adopted in a major country of the developing world: Brazil. In each essay, I have tried to identify the main outcomes of the evaluated policies using quantitative econometric methods. Ultimately, the objective …
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The development of Greenland's shrimp fishing and processing industry since 1979: A study in applied economics
… towards filling this gap by presenting an applied economic study of the development of Greenland's shrimp fishing and processing industry since the introduction of home rule in 1979. It attempts to arrive at an understanding of why the industry reached a point of crisis, and, thereby, to …
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Two Applied Economics Essays: Trade Duration in U.S. Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Imports & Goods-Time Elasticity of Substitution in Household Food Production for SNAP participants and nonparticipants
The first study investigates the factors that impact the duration of U.S. fresh fruit and vegetable imports. We employ both survival analysis (Kaplan Meier estimates and Cox proportional hazards model) as well as count data models. Our results indicate that SPS treatment requirements positively …
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The effects of price and brand on consumers' perceptions of service quality, service value and behavioral intentions: Pre-purchase versus post-purchase
… research from consumer research, psychology and applied economics to develop a conceptual model explaining the effects of perceived price and perceived brand on consumers' pre-purchase service expectations. This research also addresses the extent consumers' perceptions of value mediate the …
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An econometric analysis of global agricultural commodity prices
… areas of time series econometrics, agricultural economics and applied economics to provide an empirical examination of agricultural commodity price movements. The main research questions addressed are the following. First, recursive unit root tests are employed to examine whether global commodity …
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The Impact of Increases to the Minimum Wage in the Egg Industry
… not been widely studied in the agricultural and applied economics literature and there are no widespread studies analyzing the policy proposals to increase the minimum wage. An Equilibrium Displacement Model (EDM) is created to analyze the welfare impacts of these proposed initiatives, and the …
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Essays on health and education in development economics
… tool. To accomplish such goal, the field of applied economics offers many methodological approaches to estimate the causal impact of policies. In this thesis, I present three self contained empirical papers that asses the impact of governmental interventions or study the impact of common …
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The effect of price, advertising, and income on consumer demand: an almost ideal demand system investigation
… of mind called ‘money illusion’. Evidence from applied economics literature suggests that consumers respond asymmetrically to equal changes in prices and income. Such an asymmetry could be, among other things, due to the exclusion of marketing mix variables in their demand functions or …
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