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The Economics Of Childbearing: Three Essays, Andrea Kutinova
The Economics Of Childbearing: Three Essays, Andrea Kutinova
Doctoral Dissertations
Expenditure programs, business cycles, and government interventions can affect many decisions surrounding the birth of a child. For example, public insurance programs such as Medicaid have the potential to increase the utilization of prenatal care. This, in turn, may lead to better infant and maternal health outcomes. Given the high and increasing number of pregnant women covered by Medicaid, the effectiveness of the program in promoting prenatal care use and improving health needs to be evaluated. Also, the impacts of business cycles on childbearing are of interest to policymakers. For example, does unemployment substantially affect the decision to conceive a …
Non-Linear Aspects Of Financial Integration: An Analysis Of The Real Interest Rate Parity For Southeast Asian Economies, Fabricio Linhares
Non-Linear Aspects Of Financial Integration: An Analysis Of The Real Interest Rate Parity For Southeast Asian Economies, Fabricio Linhares
Doctoral Dissertations
This study assesses the extent to which selected economies in Southeast Asia are financially integrated among themselves and internationally, and investigates whether financial integration in the region increased following the deregulation of their markets over the 1980's and early 1990's. The analysis is carried out by examining the relationship between ex post real interest rates over 1970-2005. Following the work of Meese and Rogoff (1988), countries are considered financially integrated based on the stationarity property of their real interest rate differentials. Conclusions are drawn from a confirmatory analysis, which contrasts results from unit root tests, with and without structural breaks, …
Characterization Of Single-Sided Cadmium Zinc Telluride Strip Detectors For High Energy Astrophysics Applications, Burcin Donmez
Characterization Of Single-Sided Cadmium Zinc Telluride Strip Detectors For High Energy Astrophysics Applications, Burcin Donmez
Doctoral Dissertations
Cadmium zinc telluride (CdZnTe or CZT) was introduced as a new room temperature semiconductor detector due to its good energy resolution, high atomic number, high density and good stopping power in the early 1990s. UNH has focused on developing CZT strip detector designs for astrophysical measurement applications in the 0.05 to 1 MeV photon energy range. This thesis presents characterization efforts of two types of single-sided CZT strip detector: non-charge sharing orthogonal coplanar strip detectors and charge-sharing strip detectors. The characterization includes spectroscopy, imaging, uniformity and efficiency measurements. Measured energy resolutions with both detector designs are better than those obtainable …
Family Structure, The State Children's Health Insurance Program (Schip) And Child Outcomes, Minghua Li
Family Structure, The State Children's Health Insurance Program (Schip) And Child Outcomes, Minghua Li
Doctoral Dissertations
This dissertation consists of three separate but interrelated essays that investigate how family structure and public policy are linked to health and developmental child outcomes. Each essay employs two or three waves of the National Survey of America's Families (NSAF) as the primary data source. The first essay broadly investigates how family structure, including the less typical non-traditional families such as single father and grandparent households, are related to a wide of array of child outcomes with a focus on the interplay of parent-child gender. The results from this study show that children in single father families have better health …