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Selected Topics in Alabama’s Environmental Horticulture Industry: The Economic Impact of Alabama's Green Industry and Migrant Labor in Alabama's Horticulture Industry 

Bellenger, Moraih (2005-08-15)
The environmental horticulture industry, known as the green industry, constitutes the states highest selling and fastest growing agricultural crop sector. The author, in collaboration with Deacue Fields and Kenneth tilt, ...

A Spatial Econometric Analysis of the Effects of Subsidized Housing and Urban Sprawl on Property Values 

Naanwaab, Cephas (2011-05-04)
Property owners often resist the idea of siting public or subsidized housing in their neighborhood. The notion that subsidized housing exerts a negative externality effect on adjacent properties has been investigated ...

Three Essays in Applied Economics: (1) School Funding and Student Performance in Alabama, (2) News and Volatility of Food Prices, and (3) The Impact of NAFTA on Labor in the US 

Zheng, Yuqing (2006-08-15)
This dissertation consists of three essays in economics on education, time series econometrics, and international economics. The first essay attempts to evaluate the impact of state funding on student performance in Alabama ...

Three Essays in Hedonic Housing Price 

Liu, Sezhu (2014-08-20)
Chapter 2 attempts to quantify the impacts of green space, by using the hedonic price analysis of the relationship between property values and the green space amenities around the selected single family houses in Delaware ...

Three Essays in House Foreclosures, Quasi-Experiment Model and Irrigation 

Cui, Lina (2012-08-02)
In recent years much governmental and public attention has been focused on house foreclosures as they related to the recent recession. Housing spillovers can degrade neighborhood quality and depress property tax revenues, ...

Three Essays in Natural Risks and Environmental Policy Analysis 

Li, Sheng (2015-04-29)
This dissertation includes three essays that address economic impacts of natural risks and environmental policy on natural resources and economic development. Chapter 1 examines the impacts of economic and flood risk ...

Three Essays on China's Agricultural Trade 

Liu, Xinran (2015-07-27)
This dissertation consists of three chapters. In the context of the appreciation pressure that is faced by the Chinese currency (Renminbi, RMB) in recent years, using an Equilibrium Displacement Model, Chapter 1 studies ...

Three Essays on Household Residential Sorting 

Zhang, Zhaohua (2016-07-08)
This dissertation includes three essays that analyze factors affect residential sorting across neighborhood. Chapter 1 estimates the effect of crime on household location choice using a two-stage residential sorting model ...

Three Essays on Market and Non-Market Factors Affecting International Seafood Trade 

Tran, Nhuong (2011-03-25)
This dissertation is comprised of three separate essays investigating market and non-market factors affecting international seafood trade. The first essay analyzes the impact of food safety standards and management systems ...

Three Essays on Non-Market Valuation Applications 

Robinson, Derrick (2015-12-10)
This dissertation is organized into three topics using nonmarket valuation applications. The first topic examines the demand behavior of recreational participants to the coastal counties in Alabama and Mississippi and ...

Three Essays on Real Estate, Environmental, and Urban Economics Using the Hedonic Price Model Technique 

Jauregui, Andres (2006-05-15)
This dissertation is organized into three different topics in the fields of real estate economics, environmental economics, and urban economics, all of them linked by a common econometric technique. The first topic determines ...

Three Essays on the Chinese Housing Market: Amenities, Environment, and Policies 

Luo, Yuxi (2016-05-05)
This dissertation includes three essays that address economic impacts of amenities, environmental change, and development policy on the Chinese housing market. Chapter 1 examines the impact of the city water system improvement ...

Three Essays on the Economics of Land Use and Water Quality 

Bhattarai, Gandhi (2006-05-15)
Studies in natural resources economics apply different models ranging from a simple linear regression models to much more complex models requiring advance skills in Geographic Information Systems, statistics and computer ...

Three Essays on the Valuation of Natural Resources in Recreation and Tourism 

Majumdar, Suman (2011-04-29)
This dissertation examines the demand behavior of recreational participants, their preference for resource attributes and their valuations of nature-based outdoor activities and related natural resources. The results are ...

Three essays on toxic chemical releases, house values, health and labor productivity 

Ho, Sa (2007-08-15)
The Toxics Release Inventory is a public access database established under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA) to protect public health, safety and the environment from toxic chemical hazards. ...

Value of Vocational Logging Training 

Xu, Yecheng (2013-11-11)
Logging employees need training and most of the time the get that training on the job. Vocational logging training helps logging machine operators to improve work performance including job quality, productivity, and safety. ...

Women's Property Rights and Outreach of Microfinance Institutions Targeting Women 

Bailey, Rachel (2016-12-12)
The right to legally own and control property is vital to the ability of an individual to receive credit. Women in developing countries often lack property rights and are therefore at a disadvantage when applying for loans. ...