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  • Effects of Behavioral and Environmental Factors on Infant Health 
    Cil, Gulcan (University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)
    Health at birth is considered an important indicator of health outcomes in adulthood. It is also shown to have a strong association with future educational attainment and labor market outcomes. I examine the effects of ...
  • Essays in Environmental and Public Economics 
    Vander Naald, Brian (University of Oregon, 2012)
    Benefit-cost analysis of environmental policies typically focuses on benefits to human health and well-being. When it comes to humans' willingness to pay (WTP) for improvements in the quality of life for other species, ...
  • Essays in Environmental Economics 
    Mueller, Rosie (University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)
    This research examines both health effects and market responses from local changes in environmental quality. Both can be of significant interest to policy makers. I examine the health effects of population exposure to ...
  • Essays on Development and Health Economics 
    Mitchell-Nelson, Joseph (University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)
    This research examines the role of culture in two specific contexts--World Bank project management and preferences for pandemic mitigation strategies--and contributes a novel econometric method for sample selection correction ...
  • Essays on Economic Development and Climate Change 
    Fitch-Fleischmann, Benjamin (University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)
    The first essay considers the relative effectiveness of government and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as channels to allocate resources. I use a catastrophic climate-related shock--Hurricane Mitch--to examine the ...
  • Essays on Income Inequality and the Environment 
    Voorheis, John (University of Oregon, 2016-10-27)
    This dissertation considers two of the most pressing concerns of the current time, income inequality and exposure to pollution, and provides evidence that these two concerns may in fact be causally linked. In order to do ...
  • Risk Aversion and Information Acquisition Across Real and Hypothetical Settings 
    Taylor, Matthew (University of Oregon, 2012)
    I collect data on subjects' information acquisition during real and hypothetical risky choices using process-tracing software called Mouselab. I also measure subjects' cognitive ability using the cognitive reflective test ...

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