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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 Plea Bargaining, Political Power, and Case Outcomes in Local Criminal Courts
(2023)In this dissertation, I seek to understand the power of legal actors in determining punitiveness in plea bargaining in criminal courts. Using a unique combination of administrative court data and qualitative interviews, ... -
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, ... -
Advancing African Development Through Art: Artist Perspectives
(2020)While there is a common understanding that artists find it hard to make a living through their artistic activities, research is silent on how artists view and understand their lived experiences. “Creative wealth”, which ... -
Air Pollution, Water, and Sanitation: Household Response to Environmental Risk
(2020)Despite the threats to morbidity, mortality, and human capital accumulation posed by environmental risks, investments in environmental health technologies remain low. This is especially evident in low- and middle-income ... -
Altered Stakes: identifying gaps in the psychedelic-assisted therapy research informed consent process
(2022)Nearly 60% of the US population experiencing posttraumatic stress disorder have not received a meaningful clinical response from traditional interventions (Akiki & Abdallah, 2018). Early research using psychedelics in tandem ... -
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 ... -
An Assessment Study to Determine the Feasibility, Appropriateness, and Usability of Mobile Clinics to Provide Neurosurgery and Neurology Care in Uganda
(2023)Neurosurgical and neurological conditions account for a significant disease burden worldwide, with low- and middle-income countries bearing more than 90% of the burden. Uganda is a low-income nation with a high demand for ... -
Anything For Views Parenting: Framing Privacy, Ethics, and Norms for Children of Influencers on YouTube
(2023)Children who appear as the main characters or primary consumers of YouTube content have been the focus of emerging academic literature and public debate (Feller & Burroughs, 2022; Ferguson, 2018; Kumar, 2021). Sharenting, ... -
Authoritarian Governance and the Provision of Public Goods: Water and Wastewater Services in Egypt
(2019)Studies on the effect of regime type on public goods provision have tended to take a quantitative, cross-national approach to examining the relationship between regime type and access to public goods, and have demonstrated ... -
Bad goods: On the political morality of production and consumption in global supply chains
(2019)People buy many goods produced in ways that appear to call for a remedy or a reaction from actors in developed countries: these are goods which appear to have “grave flaws” in the upstream supply chain. For example, one ... -
Building a Decision Model to Estimate the Health and Economic Benefits of Targeted Mental Health Interventions to Improve ART Adherence among Young People Living with HIV in Tanzania
(2023)Young people living with HIV (YPLWH) constitute a growing proportion of the global population of people living with HIV but have less access to HIV testing, diagnosis, treatment, and face heightened mental health challenges. ... -
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 ... -
Configuring Local Resilience to Coastal Erosion in Togo
(2023)The West African coast is prey to an erosion washing away communities’ houses, livelihoods, and ancestral temples. By studying locals’ lived experiences and state resilience efforts my research investigates environmental ... -
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 ...
