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The Effects Of Air Pollution On Infant Health: An Empirical Evaluation Of Georgia, Mamadou Laity Sow
The Effects Of Air Pollution On Infant Health: An Empirical Evaluation Of Georgia, Mamadou Laity Sow
Economics Dissertations
Adverse birth outcomes have many causes but there is increasing awareness that air pollution is one of them. This study examines the effects of air pollution on infant health and mortality using data from the State of Georgia. The estimation methods control for potential endogenous variables such as the length of gestation and the demand for prenatal care. Moreover dummy-fixed effects are used to control for unobserved neighborhood characteristics using the place of residence of the mother. In addition, the model uses a comprehensive framework, which considers birth weight, length of gestation, and mortality, thus allowing pre and postnatal assessment …
The Quality Of Governance, Composition Of Public Expenditures, And Economic Growth: An Empirical Analysis, Paul Kagundu
The Quality Of Governance, Composition Of Public Expenditures, And Economic Growth: An Empirical Analysis, Paul Kagundu
Economics Dissertations
This dissertation seeks to analyze, both theoretically and empirically, the impact of quality of governance on growth by looking at various dimensions of the concept of governance. We use a dynamic panel estimator and various indicators of governance to estimate the impact of governance on growth. Our empirical results suggest a positive and statistically significant impact of governance on growth. The second part of the analysis looks at a possible transmission mechanism of the effect of governance on growth through the composition of expenditures. As such, we estimate a seemingly unrelated regressions (SUR) model with shares of three functional categories …
Essays On Optimal Mix Of Taxes, Spatiality And Persistence Under Tax Evasion, Mohammad Yunus
Essays On Optimal Mix Of Taxes, Spatiality And Persistence Under Tax Evasion, Mohammad Yunus
Economics Dissertations
This dissertation analyzes the optimal mix of direct and indirect taxes in an economy with multiple tax collecting authorities when both the taxes are subject to evasion and to what extent the tax compliance behavior of individuals in the United States are persistent and spatially dependent. Essay I derives and provides an intuitive interpretation of: (i) impact of the changes in the government instruments on tax evasion by firms, the expected prices they charge, and the expected tax rates they face; (ii) a generalized version of Ramsey rule for optimal commodity taxation which accounts for income tax evasion from either …
Economic Effects Of Land Value Taxation In An Urban Area With Large Lot Zoning: An Urban Computable General Equilibrium Approach, Ki-Whan Choi
Economics Dissertations
LVT (Land Value Tax), unlike other taxes, causes no distortions in economic decision-making and therefore does not compromise the efficiency of a market economy. While there have been various challenges to this conclusion, it seems that the neutrality of LVT has been proven in the literature. Although it has been established conceptually that LVT is non-distortive, it is important to empirically test the effects of LVT reform in diverse aspects. Unlike other studies, this dissertation examines the economic, spatial, and welfare effects of LVT reform in a second-best situation employing an urban (and spatial) CGE (Computable General Equilibrium) model. In …
Essays On Value-Added Taxation, Asmaa Adel El-Ganainy
Essays On Value-Added Taxation, Asmaa Adel El-Ganainy
Economics Dissertations
This dissertation evaluates the empirical relation between the value-added tax (VAT) and the level of aggregate consumption. Furthermore, it develops a theoretical framework and an empirical analysis to study the impact of the VAT, as a form of taxing consumption, on capital accumulation, productivity growth, and overall economic growth. While recent theoretical work shows that the VAT may boost capital accumulation and growth by encouraging more savings, we find that the net impact of consumption taxes on growth and its sources is theoretically ambiguous, and depends on the interaction between utility parameters, the interest rate, and the tax structure. Moreover, …
The Economics Of Child Labor, Xinye Zheng
The Economics Of Child Labor, Xinye Zheng
Economics Dissertations
In this dissertation, we first develop a simple two-period model to examine the parent's optimal choice of children's time. We identify factors such as wage rate, school fees, education returns, degree of children's altruism toward their parents and the parents' discounting rate that influence the parents' optimal choice, and discuss their impacts on the optimal choice. Children's time is an important resource for rural households in developing economies, and it is typically allocated by the parents. Two basic uses for this resource are: working in the labor market and attending schools. Schooling today may make children more productive in the …
Global Corporate Tax Competition For Export Oriented Foreign Direct Investment, Jose Rene Rendon-Garza
Global Corporate Tax Competition For Export Oriented Foreign Direct Investment, Jose Rene Rendon-Garza
Economics Dissertations
Economic integration and mobility of capital have set the ground for a significant competition over resources. Tax competition for internationally mobile tax bases such as foreign direct investments has become an important matter of study. Nevertheless, literature has focused on a regional or geographical neighboring condition competition through taxes. This dissertation aims to test whether tax competition for foreign direct investment has changed its regional characteristic towards a global or world-wide competition. Global or world-wide tax competition can be thought of as uncooperative tax policy reactions between governments of different countries of the world not necessarily near each other geographically, …
Two Essays On Government Behavior, Li Zhang
Two Essays On Government Behavior, Li Zhang
Economics Dissertations
The main theme of this dissertation is government’s strategic behaviors. We show that different budget structures give governments incentives to behave differently, and that the Leviathan model and the Bureaucratic model are better in modeling government behaviors than the median voter model. We first discuss theoretically the design of an optimal tax system, promoting the Leviathan government to maximize social welfare in order to maximize its own revenue. Then we examine empirically how government behaviors vary with different budget structures. In essay I, we apply the Buchanan-Brennan (B-B) rule to examine the effects of a tax system on the efficiency …
The Role Of Amenities In The Location Decisions Of Ph.D. Recipients In Science And Engineering, Albert Joseph Sumell
The Role Of Amenities In The Location Decisions Of Ph.D. Recipients In Science And Engineering, Albert Joseph Sumell
Economics Dissertations
Location-specific amenities have been shown to play an increasingly important role in individual migration decisions. The role certain amenities play in the location decisions of the highly educated may be the cause of persistent regional differences in certain types of human capital, and consequently in regional productivity. This dissertation examines the determinants of the location decisions of new Ph.D. recipients in science and engineering (S&E). A discrete choice random utility model of the city location decisions of new Ph.D.s is developed to estimate preferences for city attributes as well as willingness to pay for improved amenity quality. By estimating the …