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Two Essays On The Empirical Analysis Of Microeconomic Data: Household Donation And Individual Body Weight, Yanghao Wang
Two Essays On The Empirical Analysis Of Microeconomic Data: Household Donation And Individual Body Weight, Yanghao Wang
Masters Theses
This thesis consists of two essays on empirical analysis of microeconomic data for household donation and individual body weight.
The first essay investigates determinants of donations to religious, charitable, and educational/political organizations amongU.S.households using data from the 2010 and 2011 Consumer Expenditure Survey. To address issues of censoring, selection biases, and correlations among different types of donations, a sample selection system is estimated. Average marginal effects are calculated to further explain the effects of covariates on household donations. Price is negatively associated with charitable and educational/political donations but not with religious donations. The effects of household income differ by types …
Ethnicity And Breastfeeding In Kenya, Brooke Meredith Watson
Ethnicity And Breastfeeding In Kenya, Brooke Meredith Watson
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