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Essays On Risky Health Behavior, Bern Dealy
Essays On Risky Health Behavior, Bern Dealy
Economics ETDs
Risky health behaviors including substance abuse and risky sex are a significant contributor to chronic illness in the US. Efficient use of public resources to avert or mitigate the consequences of risky health behaviors requires a better understanding of the overall costs of risky health behavior to society. Additionally, a better understanding of the value and behavioral consequences of programs designed to mitigate the consequences of risky health behavior is needed. This dissertation utilizes a number of unique methodological and empirical tools to examine the consequences of risky sex and drug abuse and the value of policies which seek to …
Food Security, Climate Change, And Poverty Reduction In Rural Nepal, Wenmei Guo
Food Security, Climate Change, And Poverty Reduction In Rural Nepal, Wenmei Guo
Economics ETDs
Smallholder famers in the developing countries, especially those who mainly depend on rain-fed agriculture, are vulnerable and sensitive to climate change because such agricultural cultivators largely depend on traditional farming techniques, and are less capable of coping with climate change (Krishnamurthy et al., 2013). Like many other developing countries, agricultural production in Nepal is largely dependent on rainfall, which causes high sensitivity to climate change for household food security. This dissertation, which is composed of three main studies, examines how serious climate change affects household food security, as well as the potential strategies households could adopt to cope with food …
Health Outcomes And Optimal Choices In Urban Areas In Response To Environmental Shocks And Changes In Forest Amenities, Benjamin Jones
Health Outcomes And Optimal Choices In Urban Areas In Response To Environmental Shocks And Changes In Forest Amenities, Benjamin Jones
Economics ETDs
Forests and trees may play important roles in human health outcomes and choices made by individuals in urban areas. Disruptions to forest amenities and tree canopy coverage caused by shocks to the natural environment may affect urban air quality, behavioral decisions, time use habits, and environmental management. This work exploits two distinct and unrelated shocks to forests in the United States to investigate the environmental and health economic links in urban areas between people and trees, and a proposed deeply ingrained role for environmental health in how people live, interact, optimize in their communities. The first chapter argues that environmental …