This Is AuburnElectronic Theses and Dissertations
  1. AUETD Home
  2. Browsing by Author

Browsing by Author "Sengupta, Aditi"

Now showing items 1-7 of 7

Analyzing the Environmental Kuznets Curve by using the Ecological Footprint 

Richey, Nathan (2014-05-02)
This paper presents recent data that suggest a possible existence of an Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) using the aggregate environmental health indicator known as the Ecological Footprint (EF). Currently, there is no ...

Four Essays on the Economic Development, Resource and Environmental Economic 

Xu, Yecheng (2019-08-16)
The economic structure and household livelihood of Mongolia have been experiencing dramatic changes driven by both the socio-economic transition and the climate change in the past decades. This dissertation investigated ...

Incorporating Consideration for Poor Households into U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Affordability Methodologies for Drinking Water Treatment 

Gingerich, Daniel (2013-07-10)
In the 1996 Amendments to the Safe Drinking Water Act, Congress charged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with developing affordability methodologies to determine if new drinking water treatment regulations ...

Three Essays in Applied Microeconometrics 

Sadana, Divya (2022-07-27)  ETD File Embargoed
For the first chapter, past literature has shown that 1970 amendments to the Clean Air Act (CAA) led to significant reduction in air pollution early 1970s, and that it had positive infant health consequences for the cohorts ...

Three Essays on Economics of the Parliaments 

Zhang, Jie (2020-04-22)  ETD File Embargoed
I focus on the economics of the Turkish Parliament. In Chapter One, I estimate the impact of one additional Member of Parliament (MP) representing a province on that province’s economic growth: an extra MP increases the ...

Three Essays on Time Series Forecasting with Big Data 

Behera, Sarthak Subidit (2020-07-16)  ETD File Embargoed
In the first chapter, we propose factor-based out of sample forecasting models for US dollar real exchange rates. We estimate latent common factors employing an array of data dimensionality reduction approaches that include ...

Understanding Eating Behavior: How to improve it 

Zhao, HaiYue (2022-04-20)  ETD File Embargoed
The relation between education and health has been well established in the literature, especially as it pertains to chronic diseases like obesity. But, due to data limitations, most extant research lacks a direct explanation ...