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The Socio-Economic Impact of Concentration of Timberland Ownership in Alabama
(2017-04-26)
The purpose of this thesis is to examine the relationship between concentration of timberland ownership at the county level which has more than 50% of its population living in rural areas and quality of life in Alabama. ...
Adoption of Soil Conservation Practices and Farmers’ Willingness to Pay for Soil Testing in Northern Haiti
(2017-01-27)
This dissertation is organized in three chapters that deal with issues on agricultural development in Haiti. The first chapter presents results from adoption of soil conservation practices in Northern Haiti. Using data ...
Right to Farm Laws: A Thematic Analysis
(2017-04-20)
Sociological research has devoted scant attention to the state-specific laws and their impact on agriculture and rural communities in the United States. This proposal analyzes Right- to-Farm laws, statutes that exist in ...
Efficacy of U.S. Antidumping Duties: The Case of Freshwater Crawfish Tail Meat
(2017-04-17)
Quantity-dependent and price-dependent Rotterdam conditional demand systems are estimated using annual data for 1990-2014 to determine whether an antidumping duty levied by the United States on crawfish imports from China ...
Essays in international trade and energy economics
(2017-07-27)
This Dissertation consists of three empirical essays in international trade and energy economics.
Chapter 1 examines whether the food market of Turkey is cointegrated with the world food market. Using an error correction ...
Three Essays on the Gender Wage Gap and Residential Water Demand
(2017-07-22)
This dissertation includes two essays that analyze the wage gap in twelve developing countries, and another essay focuses on residential water demand in China. Chapter 1 decomposes the gender wage differentials in twelve ...
The determinants of the value of US tilapia import – Evidence from a gravity model
(2017-04-18)
As the biggest importing and food consuming country in the world, the United States increasingly imported large quantities of tilapia products in the past decade. In 2013, the United States imported 222 thousand tons of ...
Economic and Econometric Evaluation of the Turkish Labor Market
(2017-07-06)
This dissertation is organized in three chapters that deal with issues on labor market changes in Turkey. The first chapter estimates how historical internal migration impacted the gender pay gap in the Turkish Labor Market ...
Essays on International Trade and Finance: An Empirical Assessment of Food Safety and Banking Crises
(2017-12-11)
This dissertation is composed of three chapters examining how food policy and bilateral tariff affect international trade, and how 2007-2008 global banking crises influence MFIs performance. Chapter 1 explores the impact ...
Essays on Applied Econometrics
(2017-07-26)
This dissertation consists of three essays. The first essay analyzes the determinants of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the food products sector in Turkey. An Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model which is ...