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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"benefit transfer"”.
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Methodological advances in benefit transfer and hedonic analysis
… in two distinct areas of non-market valuation: benefit transfer (BT) and hedonic analysis. While the first and the third chapters address the challenge of estimating the societal benefits of prospective environmental policy changes by adopting locally weighted regression (LWR) technique in an …
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Testing Criterion Validity of Benefit Transfer Using Simulated Data
… study and policy sites impact the performance of benefit function transfer. For this purpose, simulated data are created where all information necessary to conduct the benefit function transfer is available. We consider the six cases of difference between the study and policy sites- scale …
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An Ontological Explication of Electronic Benefit Transfer as an Institutional Mechanism of Reification and Relations of Ruling
This study explicates Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) as a textually mediated discursive management tool. EBT is the mandatory method for food benefits and replaces the previous food stamp coupons, but the broad reaching significance is that this program is just a developmental infrastructure. …
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APPLYING THE THEORY OF DIFFUSION OF INNOVATIONS TO UNDERSTAND ELECTRONIC BENEFIT TRANSFER TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION AT MID-WEST FARMERS MARKETS
… conversion of food stamps coupons to Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT), vendors at farmers markets are unable to accept SNAP benefits due to lack of necessary technology adoption. The number of farmers markets has increased 39 percent since 2010 yet only 21 percent of the nation’s farmers markets …
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The Value of Cooperative Extension's Public Benefit Explored through Enhancements to Forest Ecosystem Services Provision
… value through educational programming that benefits the greater community. Forests provide numerous valuable benefits to society through the provision of ecosystem services. Cooperative Extension educational programming positively impacts forest owners, who in turn conduct actions that …
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Valuing biodiversity: Decision support for biosecurity response
… modelling, a systematic database of values and benefit transfer, with risk simulation to account for uncertainty. The innovative framework is demonstrated in a manual developed for Biosecurity New Zealand analysts for use during the early days of an incursion when time is severely constrained …
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BantuBERTa : using language family grouping in multilingual language modeling for Bantu languages
… be used for Bantu multilingual pretraining and transfer to multiple Bantu languages. Additionally, it was researched whether using this Bantu dataset could benefit transfer learning in downstream NLP tasks. BantuBERTa under-performed with respect to other models (XlM-R, mBERT, and AfriBERTa) …
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The economic consequences of private lands conservation using conservation easements in Colorado
… tax and a zero counterfactual. Further, using benefit transfer analysis, I estimated that all conservation easements in Colorado provide between $40 and $47 billion in ecosystem service benefits to Coloradoans. Using econometric meta-analysis techniques, I estimated that Coloradoans are willing …
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Integrated impact analysis of yellow-dust storms : a regional case study in China
… analysis, dose-response analysis, and a benefit-transfer approach, and test my results with sensitivity analysis. I demonstrate that the economic impacts of yellow-dust storms have reached all sectors of the regional economy, and that their delayed impacts were more significant than the …
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Exploring Alternative Methodologies for Robust Inferences: Applications in Environmental and Health Economics
… from meta-analyses. Existing literature on benefit-transfer validity is examined as an application. Nonparametric regression is found to be a viable approach for drawing robust policy insights. The second chapter proposes an alternative structural and simulations based framework to …
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Three Essays on Health and Labor Economics
… the transition from paper coupons to Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards. Using plausibly exogenous variation over states and time I estimate that the introduction of EBT doubles the MPCf out of SNAP and accounts for 25 percent of its observed increase. In Chapter 2, I examine the effects of …
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The effect of violence on educational outcomes
… study uses the implementation of the Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) program as an instrument to estimate the effect of violent crime on educational attainment. The EBT program implementation changed the method of payment for welfare recipients to debit cards from paper checks. This change …
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HEALTH OUTCOMES AND OPTIMAL CHOICES IN URBAN AREAS IN RESPONSE TO ENVIRONMENTAL SHOCKS AND CHANGES IN FOREST AMENITIES
… assessed by modifying a relatively new US EPA benefit transfer computer program, coupling it with original household survey data, and demonstrating how it can be applied to wildfire smoke events. This chapter concludes that not only are wildfire smoke events costly in urban areas, but that …