[PDF] Top 20 Three essays in applied microeconomics

... Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics Konrad Burchard Burchardi Dissertation submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Economics at The London School of Economics and Political Science June[.] ... See full document

... Recentered Influence Function and Oaxaca Blinder decomposition are applied to measure the wage gap between mothers and non-mothers at five key earning percentiles, finding a wage penalty against both types of ... See full document

... Increasing the value of the housing stock in areas prone to sea-level rise has implications beyond climate change risk. Beach management decisions and federally funded insurance programs are directly tied to the value of ... See full document

... In order to study the dynamics of this effect, an event study analysis can high- light the degree to which the relationship between Monsoon rainfall and conflict has evolved prior to the introduction of NREGA. The ... See full document

... High population density is likely to increase pressure on finite natural resources and results in poor environmental management; and hence, a possible low environmental performance. For instance, high population density ... See full document

... to three penalized regression estimators (LASSO, ELASTICNET and RIDGE) and one two-step estimator (named Post-LASSO PPML) capable of optimally selecting resistance ... See full document

... illustration, three counterfactual experiments were carried out: i) elimination and replacement of labour taxes; ii) elimination and replacement of capital taxes; and iii) elimination and replacement of all factor ... See full document

... Dependent Variable Change in Aggregate Own-Farm Investment Shares Independent Variables Natural Risk Economic Risk Idio Risk - Insurable Idio Risk - Not insured Not Recovered Prior Natur[r] ... See full document

... Competition, Conflict and Institutions Three Essays in Applied Microeconomic Theory Giovanni Ko A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Economics Department of Economics London Sc[.] ... See full document

... Chapter 4: │ Exploring the Potential for Alternative Spillovers: Evidence from Domestic Exporters in Vietnam... Chapter 4: │ Exploring the Potential for Alternative Spillovers: Evidence [r] ... See full document

... Table 13 presents the first stage estimates of equation (2). Each column presents the estimate γ obtained from using a different set of controls, as well as the F-statistic on ln price, which provides a test of ... See full document

... To undertake the analysis, we first consider a sample of young offenders who appeared in court when 20/21 years old and were given a custodial sentence at the beginning of the decade, when these tough regimes were in ... See full document

... the three public employment outcomes (the ratio of public employment to either the population or the labour force, and the natural logarithm of public employ- ment) to the 1912 EA vote ... See full document

... This thesis presented three chapters in the broad field of Applied Macroeconomics. The first chapter argued that firm stock price movements on days on which firms release financial information (such as ... See full document

... the marginal costs c by too much. Hence, a deviation as to corner the market would require wholesale prices below the true marginal costs and would not be profitable... tween foreign ope[r] ... See full document

... Another potential explanation would be a priming effect, whereby improved feedback and information may have focused the treatment group on curtailment behaviour, but distracted them from[r] ... See full document

... To isolate the casual effect of the policy on illegal trade in timber, I need exoge- nous variation in the implementation of the policy. This is unlikely to hold given that the Act was strongly lobbied by various ... See full document

... This dissertation consists of three self-contained chapters which broadly address issues related to individual and household decision making. The first essay investigates household budgeting and cash flow ... See full document

... L S  E  P S Essays in Applied Microeconomics Patrick Blanchenay Thesis submitted to the Department of Economics of the London School of Economics and Political Sci[.] ... See full document

... China, three represen- tative samples of households were surveyed, including 8000 migration households in 15 cities 4 , a sample of 8000 rural households in 9 provinces and a sample of 5000 urban households in 9 ... See full document