Browsing Theses and Dissertations - Department of Economics by Author "Bernasek, Alexandra"
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Economic efficiency of US 2007 heavy-duty diesel emission standards: a lifecycle-based approach
A new method of evaluating vehicle emission standards is developed and applied to US 2007 heavy-duty diesel emission standards. The method is closely related to lifecycle analyses because it relies on the calculation of ... -
Measuring values for environmental public goods: incorporating gender and ethnic social effects into stated-preference value-elicitation methods
This dissertation explores the theory and seemingly paradoxical results between the economic literatures of contingent valuation method and risk aversion and the interdisciplinary literature of perceptions of risk, ... -
Economic benefits of bird control in U.S. cherry production, The
Bird damage is a common and costly problem for fruit producers, who try to limit damage by using control techniques. This analysis used a survey presented to producers in five states to estimate the damage sustained to ... -
Inequality as a cause of macro-instability and productive inefficiency
These essays will examine the impact of inequality from both macro and micro perspectives. The first issue to be raised will be the contribution of inequality to macroeconomic instability. In the third chapter the focus ... -
Rental next door, The: the impact of rental proximity on home values
Literature in this area mainly focuses on the impacts of multi-unit complexes and low income housing. Little has been done specifically looking at the relationship between single-family rental homes and sales price. This ... -
Estimating the economic impacts of bird and rodent damage to selected California crops
This research estimates the direct financial costs and the changes in economic welfare associated with bird and rodent damage to 15 different crop markets in eight agricultural regions in California. Three different models ... -
History of interest, A
A History of Interest uses methods inspired by the work of Michel Foucault to uncover institutional aspects of credit and debt. It explores three hypotheses and covers the period 1290-1914. During this period, Anglo-American ... -
Entrepreneurship by gender: characteristics, financing, and growth
Women own less than one-third of firms in the United States, despite comprising nearly half of the labor force. The gender gap holds in most local areas, but analysis by county shows that there is significant variation in ... -
Determinants of small business lending
The aim of this paper is to determine the factors that drive banks' decisions to provide loans to small informationally opaque enterprises. This paper combines three important aspects related to small business lending - ... -
Three essays on heterogeneous capabilities, poverty trap thresholds, and the persistence of inequality
The current trends in poverty measurement moving toward a focus on asset and wealth stocks, and hence away from traditional flow measures of consumption and income, warrant the scaling up of efforts to understand how ... -
Our childcare problem: three essays on the childcare decision-making process from a gendered perspective
Children bring great joy and love to families, but for many families childcare entails significant stress, worry, sacrifice, and financial hardship. Social and cultures norms in the United States place these care difficulties ... -
Three essays on global imbalances
This study assesses the global imbalances across three regions (Chapter I), from Korean economy context (Chapter II), and from the perspective of history of economic thought (Chapter III). Chapter I demonstrates the asymmetry ... -
What factors affect school attendance? Quantitative and qualitative study of evidence from Nepal
There exist many factors that impact school attendance of students in developing countries. Factors range from the distance to school from a student's home to the availability of gender-specific restrooms. A project in the ... -
Female participation in research and development: the role of government and defense spending
This study analyzes how defense spending has biased research and development (R&D) institutions and the path of technological change in a specifically gendered way. Military considerations have long played a significant ... -
Three essays on financial integration and trade liberalization
This dissertation is composed of three essays which examine the impact of financial integration and trade liberalization. Chapter I investigates the effect of financial openness on labor share of income by using four ... -
Sanctions: protectionism, environment, and macro-level impacts
Are Sanctions Motivated by Protectionism: This paper attempts to answer the question, "are sanctions the U.S. imposes on foreign countries motivated by trade protectionism"? Using sanctions votes in the U.S. House of ... -
Three essays on connections between personal life and economic outcomes
The theme of this collection is the intersection of individuals' personal lives and economic lives. Personal traits may be influenced by gender, life events, and socioeconomic class. Personal traits can affect productivity ... -
Three essays in regional growth, distribution, and resilience
This work delves into two significant but less understood topics in regional labor economics. The first contribution is to growing literature examining the effects of business dynamism on regional resilience. Significant ... -
Effect of human capital on total factor productivity growth in the Arab Gulf Cooperation Council countries, The
This study is based on the understanding that economic growth in the long run can be achieved not only by increasing accumulation of capital and labor, but also through a sustained growth in total factor productivity (TFP). ... -
Three essays on different nature and effects of capital flows among Asian and Latin American countries
This dissertation contains three essays on the distinct nature and effects of capital flows on Asian and Latin American countries. Chapter I presents a Post-Keynesian open economy model to investigate the possible effects ...
