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(2012-10-19)To achieve economic development, regional authorities have to address issues that relate to climate change, efficient information flow in the market place, and health care. This dissertation presents three essays on current ...
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(2016-07-26)This dissertation is mainly focusing on an economic evaluation of a childhood obesity intervention program, after school physical activities and a nationwide social health care program. The analysis is conducted within ...
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(2012-02-14)This dissertation contains three independent essays relating energy economics. The first essay investigates price asymmetry of diesel in South Korea by using the error correction model. Analyzing weekly market prices in ...
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(2012-10-19)In this dissertation, I focus on the development and application of nonparametric methods in econometrics. First, a constrained nonparametric regression method is developed to estimate a function and its derivatives subject ...
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(2016-12-13)This dissertation evaluates the demand for crop insurance and designs and demonstrates a methodology to estimate the impacts of climate change on the federal crop insurance program (FCIP). An empirical model is built to ...
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(2019-07-28)Food Energy Water (FEW) Nexus is studied under water scarcity examine the economics of resource allocation and decision making among competing FEW users under the assumption that coordinated decision making would increase ...
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(2020-02-05)Water efficiency and a productive agriculture are key factors in our ability to meet future water and food demands under population growth and climate stressors. This study investigates freshwater supply, water use in ...
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(2015-03-03)This dissertation analyzes the impact of three public policies. Each essay attempts to identify the effects of a specific public policy using different methods. The first studies the effect of low-cost intervention on tax ...
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(2012-07-16)There are many factors that affect international agricultural trade. One of them is international transportation costs. Another important factor is non-tariff barriers such as sanitary and phytosanitary regulations caused ...
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(2012-10-19)This dissertation, which consists of three essays, studies three applications. Each of them emphasizes the microfoundations of economic models. The first essay proposes a nonparametric estimation of structural labor supply ...
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(2019-03-06)This dissertation includes three essays. In the first essay I study the problem of density estimation using normal mixture models. Instead of selecting the ‘right’ number of components in a normal mixture model, I propose ...
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(2009-05-15)Does monetary policy affect the real economy? If so, what is the transmission mechanism or channel through which these effects occur? These two questions are among the most important and controversial in macroeconomics. ...
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(2015-05-05)This dissertation contains three essays on nonparametric and semiparametric regression methods. In the first essay, we consider the problem of nonparametric regression with mixed discrete and continuous covariates using ...
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(2015-05-07)This dissertation includes three essays. The first essay concerns nonparametric kernel density estimation on the unit interval. The Kernel Density Estimator (KDE) suffers boundary biases when applied to densities on bounded ...
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(2022-01-14)Climate change and surface ozone have been proven to impose significant threats on crop productions and the interactions between these two factors further make the issue more complicated. Although the quantification of ...
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(2013-05-15)This dissertation addresses: 1) the reliability of El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) forecasts generated by the International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) of Columbia University; 2) estimation of ...
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(2012-09-20)This dissertation examines three important issues in energy markets: price dynamics, information flow, and structural change. We discuss each issue in detail, building empirical time series models, analyzing the results, ...
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(2017-07-31)In this dissertation, I study individuals’ prosocial behaviors. I focus on the topics of charitable giving, measuring altruism, and trust. The first essay studies the effectiveness of fundraising campaigns with volunteer ...
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(2018-05-03)This dissertation introduces three essays on public economics with a focus on the developing country setting. The first two essays present evidence that the accountability generated by electoral institutions positively ...
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(2021-04-30)The research involves three studies. The first study examined state-level marijuana legalization and its impacts on crime rates. The second study explored the nudging technique—deliberate and impulsive type information—to ...