• ESSAYS ON QUALITY CERTIFICATION IN FOOD AND AGRICULTURAL MARKETS 

  Adalja, Aaron Ashok (2017)

  This dissertation features three essays exploring the market impacts of two types of quality certification---a voluntary non-GMO label and a mandatory food safety standard. In the first essay, I use a hedonic framework to ...

• AGRICULTURAL POLICY AND PRODUCTION IN THE PRESENCE OF RISK AND INCOMPLETE FINANCIAL MARKETS 

  Voica, Daniel Constantin (2017)

  Economic interventions are rarely free of debate, hence it should come as no surprise that governmental agricultural policies are usually surrounded in controversy. A topic of debate in the World Trade Organization (WTO) ...

• Regulation, Market and Technology: Evidence From the U.S. Trucking Industry 

  He, Zheng (2017)

  My dissertation focuses on the environmental regulations in the trucking industry and their impacts in the United States. I explore the causal effects of environmental policies on trucking decisions, the technological ...

• Essays on Education in Developing Countries 

  Brudevold-Newman, Andrew (2017)

  Almost all countries subsidize education. These subsidies are generally designed to account for positive social returns to education and a recognition of education as a basic human right. Without subsidies, credit ...

• Essays on China's Rural Land Rental Market: Institutions and Contract Design 

  Yang, Ziyan (2017)

  China's rural land rental market, a gradually maturing market, is now revolutionizing agriculture in China by facilitating the upgrading of smallholder production to factory farming. I study a mature rural land rental ...

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