• CASH, TRAINING OR COMMITMENT? EVIDENCE ON BEHAVIORAL AND FINANCIAL INTERVENTIONS FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES 

  Bin Bakhtiar, Mohammed Mehrab (2019)

  This dissertation analyzes how poor households in Africa and South Asia respond to large-scale policy experiments involving conditional and unconditional cash transfers as well as interventions that have training and ...

• Environmental Federalism: Chinese Governmental Behaviors in Pollution Regulations 

  Yan, Youpei (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 ...

• The Attitudes of Volunteer Leaders in Cecil, Harford and Kent Counties, Maryland Toward Involvement of Handicapped in 4-H Programs 

  Coleman, Bernardine Marie (1982)

  The purpose of this exploratory study was to determine if volunteer 4-H leaders in Cecil, Harford, and Kent Counties in Maryland were receptive towards involvement of handicapped youth in 4-H programs and if training ...

• MERGER EFFICIENCIES IN THE U.S. BOTTLED WATER INDUSTRY 

  Zhang, Jun (2019)

  This dissertation contributes to the literature concerning horizontal merger efficiencies and non-price competition in merger analysis. It focuses on the U.S. premium bottled water industry, where manufacturers face both ...

• Essays on the Efficient Management of Water Resources 

  Rosenberg, Andrew (2019)

  In the first analysis of this dissertation, I assess the water use savings and cost-effectiveness of the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP) in the Upper Arkansas River basin in Kansas, a water rights retirement ...

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