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Us Current Account Imbalance, Milena Gueorguieva
Hiv/Aids And The Economy In Southern Africa, Kathrin Gerner
Hiv/Aids And The Economy In Southern Africa, Kathrin Gerner
Honors Theses
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Health And Growth, Petia Stoianova Stoytcheva
Health And Growth, Petia Stoianova Stoytcheva
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Inarguably the most important question is about the unequal distribution of income among countries. Development economists have recently turned to health for an answer. This dissertation investigates the e®ect of health on cross-country income. The first essay sheds new light on the impact of AIDS on cross-country income levels. We control for a variety of factors that are potentially related to income as suggested by our empirical model and existing related literature. Using the extended (for human capital) Solow model as our baseline empirical specification, we consider cross-sectional and panel estimation. For the full sample it is shown that AIDS …
Risk Properties Of A Stein-Like Estimator For Multinomial Choice Models, Vera Alexandrova Tabakova
Risk Properties Of A Stein-Like Estimator For Multinomial Choice Models, Vera Alexandrova Tabakova
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Stein-rule estimators, also known as shrinkage estimators, combine sample and non-sample information in a way that improves the precision of the estimation process or the quality of subsequent predictions. A Stein-rule estimator is a weighted average of a restricted and an unrestricted estimator, where the weights determine the degree of shrinkage, i.e. the importance that we place on the non-sample information. The existing literature shows that Stein-rule estimators may lead to squared error risk improvements in the linear regression, and in a number of non-linear models. The dissertation explores Stein-rule estimation in the context of multinomial choice models. It consists …
Three Essays In Labor And Health Economics, Christopher K. Coombs
Three Essays In Labor And Health Economics, Christopher K. Coombs
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
This Dissertation is primarily focused on the study of U.S. workforce trends. Research over the past fifty years, with respect to the choices that individuals make in terms of maximizing their own well-being, has covered several areas. Additionally, the legal climate has changed dramatically over this time period and research in this area has covered the possible effects on economic outcomes, including an individual's well-being. The first essay focuses on the trend in trade union membership in the U.S. over the last few decades. We revisit what is known as the government substitution hypothesis which basically addresses the question of …