Public opinion polls in high income countries regularly document near universal condemnation of child labor in low income countries. Calls for consumer boycotts against products with child labor content are ubiquitous in America's universities. This essay assumes that this concern about child labor is motivated by a genuine concern for the welfare of working children. Can consumer boycotts and ...

An increasing number of studies in the environmental and resource economic literature suggest that preferences for changes or improvements in environmental amenities, from water quality to recreation, are spatially heterogeneous. One of these effects in particular, distance decay, suggests that respondents exhibit a higher willingness to pay (WTP) the closer they live to a proposed environmenta...

Rest areas have been built on the freeway to avoid traffic accidents and drowsiness so that road travelers can rest. These supplemental rest areas are very small-sized resting facilities located between the larger regular rest areas, which is a unique design. However, the management of rest areas and their accommodations need to be improved by considering the effective factors involved. In this...

ESSAYS ON REGIONAL AMENITIES AND PUBLIC POLICIES By ELENA YEVGENYEVNA ANDREYEVA AUGUST, 2016 Committee Chair: Dr. Jorge Martinez-Vazquez Major Department: Economics This dissertation investigates how alterations in government policies affect the level of, and access to, public amenities, and how outcomes vary across space. The first essay sheds light on whether the recentralization of political...

background: effective clinical training is a fundamental ad important sector in medical education. studying the opinions of students in this era as a training core can be an effective step in devising clinical training as well as effective and efficient assessment. present study is conducted to determine the insights of medical trainees and interns on effective clinical training. methods: in th...

By Larry Libby and Elena G. Irwin Introduction Farmland value reflects the economic returns from the various products and services available from that land. Buyers and sellers agree on a price that captures expected income from the relevant outputs. Among the farmland services are certain amenities, some of which the landowner may withhold from non-payers and others for which exclusion costs ar...