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Showing 1 to 20 of 1643 for “"public policy"”.
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Pharmacogenetics : ethics and public policy
Giving medication with confidence and conviction is beneficial for both patient and doctor. There is a great expense and inconvenience in having to fine tune the dosing or sometimes change the drug, perhaps even more than once. Genetics may be the key to enhance the knowledge about the way …
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Essays on dynamic public policy.
This dissertation considers optimal government policy when agents in the economy are privately informed about their various characteristics. The first chapter deals with optimal education policy. Raising children is an important productive activity for a society since children's outcomes depend on …
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Federal public policy and bilingual education
… problem, its significance and implication for public policy, and a presentation of the research design and methodology. Chapter two reviews the historical and legal background of bilingual education policy. Chapter three presents a literature review of bilingual education policy making, and …
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Essays in health and public policy
… can explain differences in local output of local public goods and services. The third and last essay investigates whether term-limits affect the performance elected politicians in terms of the quality of local health care services and schools provided. Connecting all three essays is the fact that …
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Pensions, corporate finance, and public policy
… between corporate finance and corporate pension policy. The first chapter exploits the funding rules for defined benefit pension plans in order to identify the dependence of corporate investment on internal financial resources. Capital expenditures decline with mandatory pension contributions, …
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Multi-Objective Optimization for Public Policy
… storied history of tackling complex problems in public policy, ranging from vaccine distribution to the efficient design of public utility markets. The advent of "big data" analytics, machine learning, and scalable optimization has only expanded the field's impact, unlocking new research …
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Essays on innovation and public policy
… is an important driver of economic growth, and public policy can affect many aspects of innovation. This thesis investigates the role of public policy in relation to two specific aspects of innovation: 1) who becomes an innovator and 2) where intellectual property is located once an innovation …
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Implication of Gender Stereotypes for Public Policy
… Using a data set of senior executives in the public sector from The Leadership Circle multi-rater assessment tool, research supports the theory that gender influences how bosses rate their direct reports on leadership effectiveness. Survey data identifying leadership characteristics in the …
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Three Essays on Public Policy and Health
… is comprised of three essays on health and public policy. My research examines how regulations and targeted programs impacted health outcomes.</p> <p>The first two chapters use the unexpected shock of water borne lead in Flint Community Schools’ classrooms to estimate the causal impacts of …
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Housing Demand, Housing Wealth, and Public Policy
… papers on housing demand, housing wealth, and public policy. The first two papers make use of veteran access to the VA Loan Guaranty Program during the post-war housing boom during the 1940s and 1950s. The findings show that, for both World War II and Korean War veterans, access to the VA loan …
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The Influence of Engineers on Public Policy
… States of America, these areas are monitored by public policies that are set by policy actors—mainly lawyers, public administrators and social scientists—at legislative and regulatory levels. In these domains, engineers have a reduced voice with key decision makers on critical engineering issues, …
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Essays on Competition, Innovation, and Public Policy
… highlights these two factors in relation to public policy as applied to various analytical frameworks: (i) technology transfer scheme including a grant-back clause when innovation is cumulative (Chapters 1 and 2); (ii) universities that conduct both research and teaching activities (Chapter …
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Essays On Labor Economics And Public Policy
… the second essay of this thesis, which studies a public policy innovation using administrative records. The effects of single-sex education are hotly contested, both in academic and policy circles. Despite this heated debate, there exists little credible empirical evidence of the effect of a U.S. …
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Public policy and the Quebec aerospace sector
… around the world have adopted various types of policy measures to influence not only the level but also the nature of economic activity within their jurisdictions. These measures have commonly been referred to as "industrial policy". Since the end of WW II, governments in most developed and some …
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Essays on Charitable Organizations and Public Policy
The dissertation analyzes public policies of subsidization and regulation in three contexts. Chapter 1 develops a dynamic bunching empirical design and uses it to estimate the compliance cost that IRS reporting requirements impose on public charities. Chapter 2 estimates the effects of tax and …
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Essays in Political Economy and Public Policy
… theories that purport to explain the extent of public ownership. It then develops a model that puts these two theories into a common framework. The model is tested with a cross-country panel dataset. The results show that deficiencies in commitment and greater political pressure for control of …
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Local and Feeder Airlines and Public Policy
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-05T21:04:05Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 0007887.pdf: 15125634 bytes, checksum: 03f80f22469d14d433908e23ead7e110 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1954
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Essays in health economics and public policy
This dissertation consists of three papers that, together, analyze the role of healthcare institutions in rural economies and evaluate how access to health insurance for low-income individuals impacts mortality and risky behavior. In Chapter 1, I study the local economic impacts of rural hospital …
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Three essays on public policy and safety
… consists on three chapters that study how public policies affects safety, and their economic consequences. In the first chapter entitled “Unlocking Amenities: Estimating Public Good Complementarity” we explore the implications of public goods complementarities for economic valuation and …
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