Browsing by Author "Gronberg, Timothy J."
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Gronberg, Timothy J.; Jansen, Dennis W.; Taylor, Lori L. (Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University; Texas A&M University. Library, 2016-09-01)Texas has been part of the charter school movement since 1995, when the 74th Texas Legislature authorized the State Board of Education to establish open enrollment (OE) charter schools in the state. According to the Texas ...
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Downing, Mark Eugene (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)Benefits transfer is the application of some model of benefits estimation from one site for which data exists to a completely unrelated site for which no data exists. Researchers recognize the need to address the t feasibility ...
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Vedlitz, Arnold; Lindquist, Eric; Liu, Xinsheng; Gronberg, Timothy J.; Neilson, William; Weeks, Pris; Dean, Wesley R.; Shi, Liu; Neilson-Gammon, John W.; Zahran, Sammy (ORIGINAL: Institute for Science, Technology and Public Policy in The Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University; DIGITAL: Texas A&M University Libraries, 2010)
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Liew, Pang-Tien (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1985)This dissertation is an empirical, comparative study of the impact of two different approaches, the joint estimation approach and the alternative selection approach, in dealing with econometric models of a typical ...
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Rodarte Esquivel, Mari (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1983)The present dissertation describes an economic model designed to predict changes in the inequality in consumer expenditures, associated with trends in economic development. Special emphasis is given to expenditures since ...
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House, Donald Reed (Texas A&M University, 2005-11-01)Roughly one third of Medicare expenditures are made on behalf of beneficiaries in their terminal year, though only five percent of the Medicare-covered population dies annually. Per-capita spending on decedents is as much ...
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Ambs, Jonathan G. (2010-01-20)The purpose of my thesis is to study what factors affect the adoption of impact fees in Texas and what effects impact fees have on city budgets. This research was done using two models. The first model looked at the adoption ...
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Regmi, Ganesh (2015-01-23)Debate over immigration including the role visa policies and immigrants play in the US economy, especially effects on wages, gross domestic product (GDP), employment rate, and consumption remain unresolved. This study ...
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Memmott, Jeffery L. (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1984)The increased emphasis on the existing public highway system has highlighted the usefulness of economic analysis in the highway project selection process, but it has also highlighted the deficiencies of existing methods ...
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Karakaplan, Mustafa (2012-10-19)In this dissertation, I analyze the effects of competition in education markets. In my first essay, I analyze the effects of different concentration measures on school personnel salaries. I find evidence that principals ...
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Hsu, Su-Chin (2018-11-27)Family- and child-related topics in China have drawn wide attention from the public and scholars. A number of studies have been interested in the impact of the recent change from the one-child policy to the two-child policy ...
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Rai, Birendra Kumar (2009-06-02)This dissertation is a compilation of essays highlighting the usefulness of game theory in understanding socio-economic phenomena. The second chapter tries to provide a reason for the strict codes of conduct that have been ...
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Asava-Vallobh, Norabajra (2010-07-14)This dissertation consists of four essays which investigate efficiency analysis, especially when non-discretionary inputs exist. A new approach of the multi-stage Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) for non-discretionary inputs, ...
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Hassan, Seid Yimer (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)A given expenditure can be financed by raising taxes, borrowing, money creation, and/or a combination of these three. What are the differential impacts of these alternative methods of financing public expenditures? Is there ...
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Peng, Hui-Chun (2014-07-08)This dissertation concerns individual voluntary contributions in the subscription game with three important model considerations: private information on public good valuations, threshold uncertainty and the timing of the ...
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Kleykamp, David Lee (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1984)This dissertation is concerned with two major aspects of current social security. The first is the long run effect of pay-as-you-go social security on the capital-labor ratio as understood within the context of the standard ...
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White, Stephen Nathan (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1985)This dissertation describes an investigation into an alternative approach to the computation of true cost-of-living indexes (TCLIs). Traditionally, computation of TCLIs has involved the estimation of utility function ...
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Booker, Toby Kevin (2009-06-02)This dissertation examines the effects of charter schools in Texas, using data from the Texas Education Agency for 190 charter schools and over 60,000 charter students. In Chapter II we examine charter effect test score ...
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Kogut, Carl A. (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1984)A series of five first price sealed bid auctions of a single unit were conducted using experimental techniques. The results of the experiments were analyzed to determine the effect on bidding behavior due to the change in ...
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Cleveland, Paul Alan (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1985)This dissertation is concerned with the study of the airline industry's transition to a deregulated environment. In this dissertation, economic literature concerning market performance in alternative regulatory environments ...