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Coffee In China: Market Trend And Consumer Demand, Jesse W. Mattingly
Coffee In China: Market Trend And Consumer Demand, Jesse W. Mattingly
Theses and Dissertations--Agricultural Economics
Although it remains a tea consuming nation, both production and consumption of coffee in China has been increasing at double-digit rates and is not expected to slow down (International Coffee Organization (ICO), 2015). With investments and upward trends in production and rapid increases in consumption of coffee in China it is important for producers and retailers of the bean1 in China to understand the new Chinese coffee consumer. Using survey data from Wuhan, China we help understand the Chinese coffee consumer by explaining their consumption using standard OLS regression. Results show that whether or not consumers make/brew their own …
Three Essays On Unemployment Insurance In The 21St Century, Lewis H. Warren
Three Essays On Unemployment Insurance In The 21St Century, Lewis H. Warren
Theses and Dissertations--Economics
My dissertation consists of three essays focusing on unemployment insurance (UI) and how it affects recipients. The first essay examines how UI generosity affects the search intensity of recipients through matching American Time Use Survey respondents to all of their observations in the Current Population Survey (CPS), the population from which they are drawn. Earnings from the CPS are then run through a benefit calculator that determines eligibility and benefit amounts which are used to determine how UI generosity affects search times. The second essay uses the Survey of Income and Program Participation to examine how lesser known policies affecting …