Browsing by Subject "Public policy"
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"A Right to be Safely Born": The Quest for Health Justice for American Mothers and Children, 1890-1965
(2014)Between 1890 and 1965, the ideology of government responsibility for maternal and child health represented a continuous and central goal that fueled programs and institutional networks of progressive and liberal social policy ... -
A Social and Ecological Evaluation of Marine Mammal Take Reduction Teams
(2014)There have been few efforts to evaluate the actual and perceived effectiveness of environmental management programs created by consensus-based, multi-stakeholder negotiation or negotiated rulemaking. Previous evaluations ... -
A Study of the Impact of a Natural Disaster on Economic Behavior and Human Capital Across the Life Course
(2015)How households and individuals respond to adverse and unanticipated shocks is an important concern for both economists and policy makers. This is especially true in developing countries where poverty, weak infrastructure, ... -
Amicable Contempt: The Strategic Balance between Dictators and International NGOs
(2017)Over the past decade, international nongovernmental organizations (INGOs) have become increasingly active in authoritarian regimes as they respond to emergencies, assist with development, or advocate for human rights. Though ... -
Childhood Obesity, Development, and Self-Regulation in Girls: Three Essays
(2013)This dissertation encompasses three essays which examine the development of obesity in black and white girls and its responses to interventions. The first chapter asks the question, how does obesity develop in girls? Using ... -
Connecting the Nodes. How Social Capital Enhances Local Public Goods' Provision in Shantytowns.
(2017)The literature on clientelism has extensively covered the direct exchange of private goods for political support between voters and politicians. Yet, patronage does not end with the distribution of food, medicine or public ... -
Constrained Coordination: How Strategic Interests and Bureaucracy Shape Donor Coordination
(2019)Scholars and practitioners recognize the importance of coordination in mitigating the costs of aid proliferation and improving the effectiveness of foreign aid. However, low levels of donor coordination persist. In this ... -
Depolarizing Environmental Policy: Identities and Public Opinion on the Environment
(2019)High levels of partisan polarization on environmental policies, and on climate change in particular, have led to policy gridlock in the United States. While most Americans rely on their partisan identities to guide their ... -
Design and Emergence in the Making of American Grand Strategy
(2013)The main research question of this thesis is how do grand strategies form. Grand strategy is defined as a state's coherent and consistent pattern of behavior over a long period of time in search of an overarching goal. The ... -
Determinants of Teenage Childbearing in the United States
(2015)This dissertation consists of two original empirical studies on the determinants of teenage childbearing in the United States. The first study examines the impact of educational attainment on teenage childbearing, using ... -
Developing a Language for Applied Causal Analysis: The Assessment of Causal Networks in Interdisciplinary Research
(2018)Integration of disparate research fields has become a major concern in recent years due to the increasing complexity of the issues that face policy makers and researchers. Concerted efforts have therefore been initiated ... -
Economic and Demographic Effects of Infrastructure Reconstruction After a Natural Disaster
(2018)In this dissertation I study the long-term effects of post-disaster reconstruction of infrastructure on economic and demographic outcomes. The effects on individuals and communities that result from shocks to existing ... -
Essays in Education and Politics
(2013)This dissertation explores three topics relating to education and politics. The first chapter examines gender gaps in test scores among top-scoring students. Recent research by Pope and Sydnor (2010) and Nosek et al. (2008) ... -
Essays in Health, Education and Development
(2012)This dissertation encompasses three essays that examine the extent to which parental loss and social programs affect the health, education and time allocation of children in developing countries. The first chapter asks ... -
Essays in the Economics of Education
(2017)This dissertation comprises three essays in the economics of education. I begin with a paper that evaluates the effectiveness of selective secondary schools. An unique admissions context permits identifying the causal benefits ... -
Essays on Education Policy
(2013)This dissertation consists of three essays on the topic of education policy. In the first essay, I evaluate the impacts of a teacher quality equity law that was enacted in California in the fall of 2006 prohibiting ... -
Essays on Optimal Control of Dynamic Systems with Learning
(2013)This dissertation studies the optimal control of two different dynamic systems with learning: (i) diagnostic service systems, and (ii) green incentive policy design. In both cases, analytical models have been developed to ... -
Essays on State-Building and Sectarian Violence
(2016)\abstractThis dissertation seeks to explain the role of governmental and non-governmental actors in increasing/reducing the emergence of intergroup conflict after war, when group differences have been a salient aspect of ... -
Essays on the Role of Government Incentives in the Private Provision of Social Goods
(2016)The economic rationale for public intervention into private markets through price mechanisms is twofold: to correct market failures and to redistribute resources. Financial incentives are one such price mechanism. In this ... -
Establishing a Framework to Assess the Cost-Effectiveness of IIPH's Folic Acid Interventions for Women of Reproductive Age
(2013)There is a very high prevalence of folic acid deficiency in developing countries and women suffering from this deficiency during their pregnancies are at an increased risk of having a child with neural tube defects (NTDs). ...
