Search
Now showing items 31-40 of 80
Essays on the Economics of Disease Control and Child Malnutrition
(2016)
Determining the benefits of infectious diseases control can provide the impetus for policy makers to prioritize disease control, but this requires knowledge about how control measures affect disease outcomes and how to ...
The Economics of Information with Applications in Advertising and Philanthropic Organizations
(2011)
Information is a valuable commodity in the market place. Consumers gather information for products, producers supply information about product prices, quality, characteristics, etc., investors collect information on firms, ...
Three Essays on the Role of Heterogeneity in Industrial Organization, International Trade, and Environmental Economics
(2017)
This dissertation consists of three studies on trade, industrial organization, and environmental economics. The first study investigates endogenous cartel formation with market entry and firm heterogeneity. We show why ...
ESSAYS ON DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS IN NEPAL
(2015)
This dissertation consists of three papers. All three papers are independent but are related to the development of Nepal. The first paper investigates the role of food insecurity and women’s autonomy in child health in ...
Behavioral Economics of Retail Food Markets: Discounts, Coupons and Healthier Menus
(2011)
The purpose of this dissertation is to study the effect of different marketing strategies on changing consumers' behavior from the perspective of behavioral economics. The dissertation is composed of three related studies. ...
Preferences for Wine and Food Consumption in China
(2011)
The overall purpose of this dissertation is to investigate the Chinese consumers' preferences for wine products, how these preferences drive their purchasing habits and behavior, and the food consumption patterns in Chinese ...
Essays on the economics of disease control and child malnutrition
(2016-05)
Determining the benefits of infectious diseases control can provide the impetus for policy makers to prioritize disease control, but this requires knowledge about how control measures affect disease outcomes and how to ...
Essays on Child Labor and Agricultural Decision-making in response to Natural Disasters & Climate Change
(2016)
This dissertation consists of three papers.
In India, Ethiopia and Vietnam, rural households face a choice between allocating a child’s time between education, household chores, farm wage labor, non-agricultural wage ...
Topics in Consumer Health Decisions
(2017)
This dissertation discusses three topics in health economics focusing on consumer health decisions, as well as the application of econometric techniques to misclassified self-reported data. The first chapter attempts to ...
Outside In: Explorations in the Political Economy of National Security
(2017)
In this dissertation, I examine how countries respond to external and internal national security issues in the 21st Century. The first chapter analyzes European military expenditures with an emphasis on how European countries ...