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Title: Three Essays on Infant and Young Child Feeding and Child Health Outcomes in Sub-Saharan Africa: An Epidemiology and Policy Analysis
Author: Ademu, Lilian
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Public health, Nutrition
Description: Exclusive breastfeeding in the first six months of life and complementary breastfeeding up to 24 months is encouraged to ensure optimal infant and young child nutrition and health. The WHO and UNICEF emphasize these optimal Infant and Young Child ...

Title: AUTOMOTIVE AND LOGISTICS CLUSTERS TO DRIVE ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS IN JAVA, INDONESIA
Author: Anggoro, Yudo
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Economics
Description: This study assesses the competitiveness of logistics and automotive industry clusters in Java economic corridor, Indonesia. The need for competitive industry clusters in Indonesia has emerged especially after the government launched its Master Pla...

Title: “Afraid to Breathe”: Understanding North Carolina’s Experience of the 1918-1919 Influenza Pandemic at the State, Local, and Individual Levels
Author: Austin, Lauren
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: History, Public health, Government policy
Description: This dissertation is the first comprehensive, detailed study of a single state’s experience of the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic at state, local and county, and individual levels. Its two articles provide quantitative analyses of a unique new state...

Title: EFFECTS OF TEACHER DIVERSITY AND STUDENT-TEACHER RACIAL/ETHNIC MATCHING IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS ON EDUCATIONAL OUTCOMES
Author: Banerjee, Neena
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Teachers--Training of, Education and state
Description: This dissertation investigates the implications of student-teacher racial/ethnic matching on two educational outcomes. The fourth chapter investigates whether assignment to same-race teachers affects students' math and reading achievement growth i...

Title: Tradeoffs in the use of value-added estimates of teacher effectiveness by school districts
Author: Baxter, Andrew
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Education and state
Description: A new capacity to track the inputs and outcomes of individual students' education production function has spurred a growing number of school districts to attempt to measure the productivity of their teachers in terms of student outcomes. The use o...

Title: The Relationship between School Built Environment and Student Achievement in Pakistan
Author: Begum, Nahida
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Environmental sciences, Ecology, Education and state
Description: Schools in Pakistan face many challenges, ranging from lack of qualified teachers to insufficient teaching resources. Another obstacle is the low quality of school built environment. Some important built environment factors include an available wa...

Title: Policy and Parity: How gender equality and reproductive technologies influence the innovation and diffusion of marriage equality policies.
Author: Berlan, Meika
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Government policy
Description: My research examines the adoption and diffusion of marriage equality policies in states across the US. I analyze how gender equality and reproductive technology reshape norms around marriage and family to foster the broad support of same sex marri...

Title: DRUG CONTROL POLICIES: THE CASES OF COLOMBIA AND THE UNITED STATES
Author: Bottia, Martha
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Criminology
Description: The consumption, production and trafficking of illicit drugs is one of the major problems facing nearly all societies today. Unfortunately, illicit drugs have the ability to disintegrate persons, families and, in some extreme cases, entire societi...

Title: Local Public Sector Allocation of Scarce Emergency Assets: An Evaluation of the Fire Service
Author: Boyd, Jr., Robert
Date Created: 2009
Subjects--Topical: Political science, Public administration
Description: The methodology utilized by public sector managers to allocate scarce resources determines the level, efficiency, and effectiveness of service delivery. These decisions are influenced by a myriad of factors, not the least of which is the ideal goa...

Title: A Spatial Evaluation of Housing and Supportive Service Locations for the Formerly Homeless: The Case of Charlotte, North Carolina
Author: Butta, Faith
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Government policy
Description: The lack of affordable housing and homelessness continues to be a serious public policy issue. Even though homelessness has been decreasing nationally, major cities have seen increases late in the last decade. The purpose of this study was to lear...

Title: Emotions, Self-Efficacy, and Opportunity Beliefs in American Neighborhoods
Author: Cai, Tengteng
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Government policy
Description: Subjective perceptions of social mobility are critical for defending societal system and maintain political stability (Day and Fiske 2017; Houle 2019). This dissertation enhances our understanding of factors that shape beliefs in opportunity for u...

Title: VOTING WITH THEIR FEET: DO PEOPLE CHOOSE RESIDENTIAL DESTINATIONS BASED ON NATURALLY OCCURRING ADVANTAGES OR MAN-MADE ADVANTAGES OF LOCATIONS?
Author: Canales, Kristine Laura
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: City planning, Government policy, Economics
Description: Local economies benefit from attracting in-migration either as workforce or as consumers. To compete for constituents, local economies need to provide attractive tax policy and expenditure bundles. An important consideration in this regard is the ...

Title: Racial Disparities in Direct-to-Consumer Pharmaceutical Advertising
Author: Cavallo, Stephany
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Government policy
Description: Reducing health disparities by increasing access to health information is a national priority. Research demonstrates that direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) is effective in educating consumers about health issues. However, research also identif...

Title: Why nations succeed? Distribution and reach of the state power
Author: Cekic, Nejra
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Sociology, Political science, Economics
Description: What explains the difference in the performance of the world’s nations? Why do some succeed, and others fail? I argue that the primary determinants of development are two dimensions of a country’s institutional setting. The purpose of this study i...

Title: DO STATE-LEVEL RPS POLICIES IN THE U.S. DELIVER ANTICIPATED BENEFITS? EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF FEDERALIZED ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT POLICY ON ELECTRICITY PRICE AND QUANTITY, USE OF RENEWABLES, AND CARBON EMISSIONS
Author: Cochran, Joseph
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Government policy
Description: In this dissertation, I present the findings of a formative evaluation of the changes in the electricity markets of states that implemented renewable portfolio standards (RPS policies) from 2000 to 2010. The formative evaluation is an assessment o...

Title: Choosing a Regional Resilience Partner: A comparative study of urban, suburban, and rural natural hazard preparedness conditions
Author: Danis, Christina
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Geography, Government policy, Area studies
Description: Whether urban, suburban, or rural or from different United States (US) geographic regions, communities expect public officials to guide them to better prepare for and adapt to changing conditions and recurring natural hazard threats. Natural hazar...

Title: STRATEGIES, INCENTIVES, AND DECISIONS: ILLICIT CROP CONTROL IN COLOMBIA
Author: Davalos Alvarez, Eleonora
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Economics
Description: This dissertation examines three aspects of coca cultivation in Colombia. Fist, I evaluate how social investment in conjunction with eradication affects new coca crops. The results suggest that aerial spraying is effective in deterring farmers fro...

Title: The Incentives and Effects of Unnecessary Emergency Ambulance Transport
Author: Deziel, Jackson
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Economics, Medical sciences
Description: In the EMS field, the problem of low-acuity, non-emergency individuals who summon an emergency ambulance for simple transport to a local hospital is ever-present. Any person may summon an emergency ambulance and receive transport for the most mino...

Title: Municipal Voluntary Environmental Programs: The case of Swedish Eco-Municipalities
Author: Duma, Nathan
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Environmental economics, Geography
Description: Over the space of three articles, we attempt to answer two broad questions related to public sector voluntary environmental programs (VEP) through a case study on the National Association of Swedish Eco-municipalities (SEKOM). The first question a...

Title: Where are privatization's cost savings? Private contracting, transaction costs, and prison operation efficiency
Author: Duscha, Melissa
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Government policy, Political science, Public administration
Description: This dissertation examines the question: Where are privatization’s cost savings? Current literature finds that government privatization does not result in overall cost savings. This is contrary to widely accepted business practices and market theo...