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Showing 1 to 20 of 161 for “"economic outcomes"”.
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ESSEYS ON HISTORY, CULTURE AND ECONOMIC OUTCOMES
… there has been a newfound interest within economics in culture, its effects on economic outcomes, and its historical determinants. Although significant progress has been made, there are still many large questions that remain unanswered. My dissertation addresses two of those, namely the …
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Essays on Information Technologies, Social Networks and Individual Economic Outcomes
… of Information Technologies and individual economic outcomes. The first two papers investigate the relationship between technology and individual pay. The last two focus on connectivity through social and communication networks and labor market outcomes. The first paper offers a simple model …
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Authoritarian regime types, political and socio-economic outcomes, and democratic survival
… addresses the question of which factors shape outcomes in autocratic regimes, and, in turn, what influences the survival of democratic regimes in light of their authoritarian legacies. I argue that regimes which are able to curtail the dictator’s powers, compared to uncontested autocracies, are …
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The impact of household energy access on socio-economic outcomes in Zambia
… impact of household energy access on the socio-economic wellbeing of households in Zambia. The thesis consists of four studies that are interrelated to answer the broader objective. All estimations and descriptive statistics in this thesis use the World Bank/ESMAP dataset collected in 2017/2018 …
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Breaking Down Barriers: The Impact of Segregation on Social Capital and Economic Outcomes
… social capital indirectly affect black/white economic outcomes via entrepreneurial activities? Does the relationship between social capital, entrepreneurship, and black/white economic outcomes change when social capital interacts with segregation? Drawing from Bourdieu's (1986) and Coleman’s …
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Essays on hospital-level economic outcomes : evidence from psychedelic decriminalization and health system data breaches.
… technological disruptions shape U.S. hospital economics through three essays. Essay 1 exploits staggered city-wide psychedelic decriminalization (2019-2022) using difference-in-differences methods, finding a 25 percent rise—about 33 extra cases per month—in psychosis-related emergency visits. …
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A medicare benefit expansion: inpatient clinical and economic outcomes in deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's Disease
… Policymakers may estimate clinical and economic consequences through short term pilots or demonstration projects. Objective: Examined whether short term outcomes mirror longer term outcomes for a CMS NCD for Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) in Parkinson's Disease (PD). Methods: This …
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Evaluation of feedlot feed efficiency relationships as well as genetic and phenotypic performance, carcass, and economic outcomes
… relationships of performance, carcass, economic, and feed efficiency traits and 5) the relationship of economic factors and prediction of these factors utilizing performance, carcass, and feed efficiency characteristics. Steers were all early weaned (78 ± 24 d) and managed similarly …
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Hard and soft cap groundwater allocations: a comparison of groundwater pumping restrictions on hydrologic and economic outcomes
… date has compared the resulting hydrologic and economic outcomes of each scheme. Using coupled agronomic, economic, and hydrologic models, I examine the performance of hard and soft caps for groundwater-fed irrigation. Irrigated agriculture uses the majority of groundwater in the United States …
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Non-communicable diseases and economic outcomes in South Africa: a cohort study for the period of 2008-2018
Background: The total number of people living with non-communicable diseases in South Africa currently is unknown even though non-communicable diseases (NCDs) was accountable for 60% of the top ten causes of death in South Africa for the year 2015. In 2016, according to Stats SA, noncommunicable …
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Treatment patterns of antiepileptic drugs and economic outcomes in patients with potential refractory epilepsy in the Texas Medicaid Program
… may help prevent long-term clinical and economic consequences associated with refractory epilepsy.
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Predictors Of Use Of Hydroxyurea And Its Impact On Clinical And Economic Outcomes Among Children With Sickle Cell Disease
… hydroxyurea (HU) and its impact on clinical and economic outcomes in pediatric patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) enrolled in Medicaid. Methods: A cohort of patients with SCD was identified in 2006 using ICD-9-CM codes from Medicaid claims from 40 US states. Patients who filled three …
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Exploring the socio-economic outcomes of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) social safety nets in Epworth and Hopley urban suburbs - Zimbabwe
… safety net interventions to gauge the socio-economic effects by examining how poor and vulnerable people survive in a desperate socio-economic environment. The study premised in Zimbabwe upholds the need to consider social safety nets in empowering resource poor urban communities on …
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Leveraging public land ownership in the urban land market for commercial property development to achieve socio-economic outcomes in South Africa
… property development to optimise socio-economic objectives in the South African property sector. The current conditions, challenges, and opportunities were examined using a qualitative research approach, combining primary and secondary data collection methods. The data for this research …
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Mental health and social decision making: How depression alters the way we trust
… on the prosocial behaviours that influence economic outcomes, specifically trust and trustworthiness, rather than the economic outcomes themselves. Using experimental and survey data from a randomised control trial, I show that depression reduces trust but, counter-intuitively, increases the …
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Critical comparison of "Swanson's mean rule" and "fully probabilistic" approaches to economic evaluation of exploration prospects
The economics of petroleum exploration prospects has traditionally been estimated using Swanson's mean rule approach. However, this approach may be inadequate due to new assessment tools and workflows, and it does not account for all possible exploration outcomes. A fully probabilistic economic …
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Essays on economic crises and institutions
Countries that have pursued distortionary macroeconomic policies, including high inflation, large budget deficits and misaligned exchange rates, appear to have suffered bigger exchange rate crises, more macroeconomic volatility and also grown more slowly during the postwar period. Does this reflect …
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Essays on monetary policy
… evaluate the role played by monetary policy in economic outcomes. The first two essays investigate the properties of the historical conduct of monetary policy in the United Kingdom and the United States, respectively, and justify how these properties are related to economic performance. The …
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Chemical Management Services from a Product Service System perspective: Experiences of fluid management services from Volvo Group metalworking plants
… industry and determines environmental and economic outcomes of FMS as compared to traditional, in-house, fluid management. Fluid management services, or as it is often called chemical management services (CMS), mean that the suppliers of chemicals are also involved in managing and …
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Gender, Sexuality, and Status Foundations of Inequality: Effects of Earnings, Financial Satisfaction, and Perceived Financial Status
<p>Inequality in labor market outcomes is a cornerstone of the U.S. stratification system. A key aspect of these outcomes is earnings inequalities because of how earnings differences are associated with individual and family well-being. Previous research has revealed that hegemonic masculinity and …
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