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interactions and relative prices on fruit and vegetable consumption by African American youths using rich behavioral data from the … intake by African Americans as a result of “spillover” consumption effects between the youths and parents. …
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We present a model of neighborhood effects in wage payment delays. Positive feedback arises because each employer’s arrears affect the late payment costs faced by other firms in the same local labor market, resulting in a strategic complementarity in the practice. The model is estimated on...
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In the first chapter of this dissertation, I estimate the wage elasticity of working in the day labor market in rural Malawi using panel data from a unique field experiment. Though employment in daily wage markets is important to individuals and governments in developing countries, there is...
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This thesis consists of studies in the field of experimental economics. The first two chapters of the thesis deal with the issue of subject selection in Cournot Oligopoly experiments. In particular, chapter 1 presents a study which was designed to test whether a predominant personality inventory...
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Clean renewable energy bonds (CREBs) present a low-cost opportunity for public entities to issue bonds to finance renewable energy projects. The federal government lowers the cost of debt by providing a tax credit to the bondholder in lieu of interest payments from the issuer. Because CREBs are...
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organisations gain true value from the adoption and consumption of M-Business into their personal and working lives. Marketing to …
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Research into adoption, acceptance and consumption of Information Technology (IT) within its diffusion cycle has been … experiences towards technology adoption and consumption present and future. It provides a novel multi-disciplinary and practical … and political capital resources differentiates consumer coping with complex technology consumption experiences. The …
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Recent social spending inflation in China has led to its growth rate far exceeding that of income and other consumption … resulted consumption. However, our findings do not suggest that they are vehicles through which they could facilitate smoother … consumption against shocks. The result does not depend on how heterogeneous the shocks are. …
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, protein, alcohol and cigarette consumption, and on diversity of diet. The results from a dynamic empirical model suggest that … among microeconomic determinants, initial levels of consumption, gender, holding a university degree, and having access to a … garden plot have a significant impact on the changes in consumption behavior in Russia. Regarding the macroeconomic variables …
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The production, trade, and market share of palm oil has shown impressive growth in the last two decades. As a result of sustainability concerns over issues such as deforestation in Indonesia, the causes of the growth in the palm oil market have received considerable attention. The growth of the...
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