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▼a 9780438309364 |
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▼a (MiAaPQ)AAI10930826 |
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▼a (MiAaPQ)grad.msu:16321 |
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▼a 338 |
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▼a Ray, Mukesh Kumar. |
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▼a Three Essays in Development Economics. |
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▼a [S.l.] :
▼b Michigan State University.,
▼c 2018 |
| 260 | 1 |
▼a Ann Arbor :
▼b ProQuest Dissertations & Theses,
▼c 2018 |
| 300 | |
▼a 237 p. |
| 500 | |
▼a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 80-01(E), Section: A. |
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▼a Adviser: Mywish K. Maredia. |
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▼a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Michigan State University, 2018. |
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▼a Households experience many types of micro (i.e., local) and macro level exogenous shocks. This dissertation includes three essays that focus on household and individual level welfare effects and coping strategies to shocks. In the first essay, |
| 520 | |
▼a My first essay is situated in the literature of technology adoption with a focus on role of risk preferences in adoption decision. I conducted household surveys and a field experiment to elicit the risk preference of farmers from two northern st |
| 520 | |
▼a My second essay examines the impact of rainfall shocks during gestational period that pregnant mothers in Malawi experience on the health outcomes of their children less than 5 years of age. About 85% of Malawians reside in rural areas and most |
| 520 | |
▼a My third essay focuses on the role of greater autonomy or more homogeneous jurisdictions on development indicators. In this essay I examine the case of India where the splitting of three bigger states lead to the creation of three new states in |
| 590 | |
▼a School code: 0128. |
| 650 | 4 |
▼a Agricultural economics. |
| 650 | 4 |
▼a Economics. |
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▼a Michigan State University.
▼b Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics - Doctor of Philosophy. |
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▼t Dissertation Abstracts International
▼g 80-01A(E). |
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▼t Dissertation Abstract International |
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▼a 0128 |
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▼a Ph.D. |
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▼a 2018 |
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▼a English |
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▼u http://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T15001002
▼n KERIS |
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▼a 201812
▼f 2019 |
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