Browsing by Author "Wu, Ximing"
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Wu, Xi (2014-08-08)This dissertation consists of three essays about adverse selection and advantageous selection in life insurance and health insurance markets. Firstly, I confirm the advantageous selection in voluntary private health ...
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Agricultural Policy Analysis: Considering Policy Measure updating in Milk Pricing and Crop Insurance Seo, Hongseok (2015-06-11)This dissertation investigates the possibility of updating policy features to reflect more current data within the realm of policies related to milk pricing and crop insurance. Two policy settings are examined. First, the ...
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Su, Tian (2023-08-07)Rural land holds significant importance within the agricultural sector, serving as a crucial asset for farmers and acting as collateral for loans. Its value plays a vital role in assessing the financial stability of the ...
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Li, Yarui (2013-12-04)The housing market plays a significant role in shaping the economic and social well-being of U.S. households. It helps spur U.S. economic growth when house prices rise, and drags the economic growth when house prices drop. ...
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Li, Shixuan (2020-04-28)This dissertation contains three essays which examine network effect study in econometrics and its applications. In the first essay, I study two research questions: how underwriter network affects firm network through IPO ...
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Zhang, Yinjunjie (2018-07-24)This dissertation encompasses three different topics in applied microeconomics with the common thread of understanding the impact of public policy on economic behavior, choice, and welfare. By employing causal inference ...
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Lotade-Manje, Justus (2012-02-14)The burden of obesity-related illness, which disproportionately affects low income households and historically disadvantaged racial and ethnic groups, is a leading public health issue in the United States. In addition, ...
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Yuan, Yan (2009-05-15)Phytosterol is a healthful ingredient that helps reduce blood cholesterol levels. It has been over ten years since the first phytosterol-enriched product, Benecol margarine, was launched in Finland in 1995; however, ...
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Merchant, Naveed Nabeel (2022-02-28)A new framework for nonparametrically testing of equality of two densities is proposed. From this framework, two different tests are constructed. The two tests themselves are then investigated and compared to other tests ...
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Wang, Kang (2016-12-07)This dissertation studies three topics on bequests and bequest motives. It firstly documents the patterns and time trends of bequest distributions. Then this dissertation estimates the impacts of bequests and estate taxation ...
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Pan, Huijun 1987- (2011-08-09)In the field of spatial statistics, it is often desirable to generate a smooth surface for a region over which only noisy observations of the surface are available at some locations, or even across time. Kriging and kernel ...
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Hsueh, Shao-Chieh (2012-02-14)This dissertation is about an open question of cartel ratifiable conditions. My research goal is to establish a mechanism which is able to detect and explain cartels' activities. My research question in the second chapter ...
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Yu, Lizhihan (2021-06-29)This dissertation involves three essays. The first two essays address operational issues in a genome sequencing laboratory and the last examines market conditions for grass fed beef. Specifically, in the first essay, ...
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Lai, Pei-Chun (2012-02-14)Many researchers would be interested in one question: If a change of X is made, will Y be influenced in response? However, while a lot of statistical methods are developed to analyze association between variables, how to ...
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Egbendewe-Mondzozo, Aklesso; Musumba, Mark; McCarl, Bruce A.; Wu, Ximing (International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2011)
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Thayer, Anastasia (2018-11-14)Water availability and favorable weather conditions can greatly improve crop yields. Absence of irrigation water or unfavorable weather conditions can cause damages to crops and farmer income. Focusing on two agriculturally ...
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Juarez Torres, Miriam 77- (2012-08-31)Stochastic Weather Generators (SWG) try to reproduce the stochastic patterns of climatological variables characterized by high dimensionality, non-normal probability density functions and non-linear dependence relationships. ...
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Jones, Jason P. (2014-07-08)U.S. agricultural commodity prices have been volatile in recent years, attributed to many factors, including renewable fuel standard mandates (RFS). While the RFS is legislatively able to be altered, the mandate largely ...
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Fernandez Cadena, Mario (2013-07-23)Economic research on climate and productivity effects of ocean phenomena has mostly focused on interannual cases such as the El Niño Southern Oscillation. Here Decadal climate variability (DCV) refers to ocean related ...
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Gao, Long (2021-04-27)Dairy products play an important role in the American diet. We analyzed the long-run and short-run demands for a granular array of dairy and dairy alternative products in the United States based on three essays, where three ...