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Estimating the Output Gap for Saudi Arabia
(Canadian Center of Science and Education, 2017)The objective of this paper is to estimate annual potential output growth and the output gap for the Saudi economy over the period 1980 to 2015, looking at both total output and non-oil output. The focus on the latter is ... -
Has the Dollar Peg Served the Saudi Economy Well?
(Macrothink Institute, 2017)There are three major objectives of this paper: first, to examine the various exchange rate regimes and arrangements that have emerged over the last 40 years since the collapse of the Bretton Woods Agreement, focusing ... -
The Impact of Women’s Health Clinic Closures on Fertility
(MIT University Press, 2018)In recent years, the government of Texas has enacted multiple restrictions and funding limitations on women’s health organizations affiliated with the provision of abortion services. These policies have caused numerous ... -
With and without the tracks: how railroad access impacts gas price elasticity
(Taylor & Francis, 2017-11-03)Since 2011, gas prices have fallen 43%, raising the question of how different communities adjust their vehicle miles traveled. Data from the National Household Travel Survey’s EPA fuel economy database and the Energy ... -
Joint aggregation over money and credit card services under risk
(Economics Bulletin, 2016-11-29)We present a measurement of the correlation between the spins of t and ¯t quarks produced in proton–antiproton collisions at the Tevatron Collider at a center-of-mass energy of 1.96TeV. We apply a matrix element technique ... -
Second Trimester Sunlight and Asthma: Evidence from Two Independent Studies
(MIT Press, 2017-04-25)One in 12 Americans suffers from asthma, and its annual costs are estimated to exceed $50 billion. Yet the root causes of the disease remain unknown. A recent hypothesis posits that maternal vitamin D levels during pregnancy ... -
Defunding women’s health clinics exacerbates Hispanic disparity in preventive care
(Elsevier, 2017-07-01)To prevent abortions, many states have cut funding for women’s health, reducing access, including to preventive care. Merging BRFSS data with clinic locations from a network of women’s health clinics, this paper estimates ... -
Are Race, Ethnicity, and Medical School Affiliation Associated with NIH R01 Type Award Probability for Physician Investigators?
(Association of American Medical Colleges, 2012-11)PURPOSE: To analyze the relationship among NIH R01 Type 1 applicant degree, institution type, and race/ethnicity, and application award probability. METHOD: The authors used 2000–2006 data from the NIH IMPAC II grants ... -
Advertising methods of retail hardware stores in Kansas
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Labor Impacts of the Enforcement of the Clean Water Act
(University of Kansas, 2016-08-31)This dissertation is the collection of three papers that each examines a specific labor impact of the enforcement of the Clean Water Act. The chapters of the dissertation all use panel data from a unique survey of chemical ... -
A study of oil company bonds
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The Wichita grain market
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Three Essays on the Employment of Veterans
(University of Kansas, 2016-08-31)This dissertation consists of three chapters; each chapter is organized as a separate essay. All three essays focus on the effect of the military service on the civilian labor market performance of veterans. Chapter 1 ... -
Development of the flour milling industry in Kansas
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The Predictability of Exchange Rates
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)This study investigates the predictability of exchange rates by using the long horizon regression approach (or sometimes called the Error Correction Model (ECM)) derived from the Vector Error Correction Model (VECM) for ... -
Essays on Government Spending and Employment
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)In Chapter 1, I examine the "twin deficits" hypothesis in a new light by pooling data from highly developed open economies to create a representative global economy. Previous work on twin deficits has yielded mixed evidence ... -
Three Essays on Divisia Monetary Aggregates and GDP Nowcasting
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)GDP data are published quarterly with a substantial lag, while many other monetary and financial decisions are made at higher frequencies. GDP nowcasting can evaluate the current quarter’s GDP growth rate given the available ... -
Essays in Labor Ecnomics
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)This dissertation studies various aspects of labor economics, such as subjective well-being, the effects of pronatalist policies as well as tools that are helpful for economic analysis such as using incentives in surveys. ... -
Essays on Measuring Monetary Policy Uncertainty and Forecasting Business Cycle
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)Chapter 1 is a survey paper for economists new to the field of a Monte Carlo simulation based method: particle filter. Particle filter can be applied to many flexible state space models such as non-linear, non-Gaussian, ... -
Three Essays on Monetary Policy in Small Open and Developing Economies
(University of Kansas, 2016-05-31)Abstract: This dissertation consists of three essays organized as chapters. On the first chapter, I revisit the discussions which evaluate different fluctuations of major economic variables produced by different monetary ...
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