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Early Childhood Nutritional Responses to Targeted Food Aid and Social Network Disruptions in Ugandan Internally Displaced Person's Camps
(2009)Early childhood malnutrition, which is a series of symptoms including slow linear growth, decreased resistance to infection, and poor motor and cognitive functioning, has received increased attention in recent years as a ... -
An Economic Study of 128 Dairy Farms on the Upper Eastern Shore of Maryland
(1938)This study analyzes the second year's survey or 128 dairy farms, representative of the dairy industry on the Upper Eastern Shore of Maryland. This area, which includes Cecil, Kent, Queen Anne's, Talbot, and Caroline ... -
ECONOMICS AND EMPOWERMENT: CATALYSTS OR COMPETITORS?
(2013)We look at the socio-economic impacts of a rural livelihoods program in Bihar, one of India's poorest states. Adopting a model prevalent in several Indian states, the Bihar Rural Livelihoods Project, known locally as ... -
THE ECONOMICS OF AGRICULTURAL LABOR EXCHANGE WITH EVIDENCE FROM INDONESIA
(2004-03-02)In agricultural labor exchange, farmers temporarily pool their labor into teams and complete a task on each team member's plot in succession. Labor time is exchanged between team members under strict reciprocity and without ... -
The Economics of Fallow: Evidence from the Eastern Amazon
(2007-08-01)With tropical deforestation a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss, the land use decisions of small-scale farmers at the forest margins have important implications for the global environment. ... -
Economics of Society: Essays on Health, Marriage and Child Adoption
(2015)The underlying theme of my research has been throwing light on issues of society where individual interest and the larger collective bargain are divergent. Primarily I have used the economic approach to examine social ... -
THE ECONOMICS OF WIND POWER AND WHISKY
(2015)For many goods, economists tend to ignore the time between the onset of production and the final sale of the good. In some instances, economists do model production with intertemporal considerations such as the extraction ... -
Effects of Inequality and Transmissivity in a Common Pool Aquifer - Theory, Experimental Evidence and Policy Implications
(2013)The early literature on common pool resources focused on the race for appropriation among users and its damaging effects on the resource stock and on the aggregate welfare of all users. The differential game framework was ... -
Effects of Information and Time of Use Pricing on Irish Electricity Demand and Supply
(2016)In this dissertation I quantify residential behavior response to interventions designed to reduce electricity demand at different periods of the day. In the first chapter, I examine the effect of information provision ... -
The Effects of Water Quality Improvements on a Commercial Fishery: Evidence from the Maryland Blue Crab Fishery
(2014)Developing and implementing total maximum daily loads (TMDLs) is a costly and controversial process. However, there are many potential benefits, such as improvements to commercial fisheries. A two-stage model is developed ... -
Electricity Markets Price Risk, Pollution, and Policies
(2015)The electricity sector is a significant contributor to the economic and environmental health of the United States, with annual revenues well over \$300 billion and responsibility for approximately one third of all carbon ... -
Endogenous Property Rights Regimes, Common Property Resources and Trade Policies
(2006-09-13)International clamor regarding the potential degradation of the environment in developing countries due to opening to trade has been an important issue that has moved from the streets into academic studies. This dissertation ... -
Ensuring the Continued Viability of Rural Communities: Using Mediation to Settle Disputes
(2017-08)Mediation, a form of alternative dispute resolution, has considerable advantages over litigation in terms of relationships among parties, finances, and time. Mediation can be a useful alternative to expensive litigation ... -
Environmental Federalism: Chinese Governmental Behaviors in Pollution Regulations
(2019)China's economic growth has come with the cost of environmental deterioration. The economy has faced with many problems in land resource depletion and industrial pollution. I examine two policies that tackle three major ... -
Environmental Risk Factors, Health and the Labor Market Response of Households in the United States
(2008-08-04)In the first part of the dissertation, I estimate the effect of a married adult's specific health condition on his or her own labor market decisions (labor force participation, earnings, hourly wages, and hours of work) ... -
ESSAYS ABOUT THE ELECTRICITY SECTOR IN CHINA
(2019)China, with the largest electricity consumption market in the world, is in the process of market-oriented reform on its electricity industry and trying to encourage energy saving and enhance energy efficiency by implementing ... -
Essays in Behavioral and Experimental Economics
(2006-05-18)Behavioral economics aims to provide more realistic psychological foundations for economic models. Experimental methods can contribute to this effort by providing the ability to identify causal processes and motivations ... -
Essays in Behavioral Economics: Applying Prospect theory to Auctions
(2010)I explore the implications of reference-dependent preferences in sealed-bid auctions. In the first part, I develop a Prospect theory based model to explain bidding in first-price auctions. I show that bidding in induced-value ... -
Essays in Greenhouse/Nursery Economics
(2016)This dissertation focuses on the greenhouse and nursery industry in the United States. Two major issues are explored: irrigation and plant disease. The first two essays examine wireless soil-moisture sensor networks, an ... -
Essays in Natural Resource Economics
(2005-07-28)Allocation decisions in many natural resource markets are governed by mechanisms designed to alleviate information asymmetries and other types of market imperfections. For example, the crew in most commercial fisheries ...