The core of this thesis explores three issues at the intersection of political and development economics. In Chapter 2, I demonstrate how ethnic divisions can undermine the provision of an important public good: teacher ...

This thesis is motivated by research questions faced by policy makers in developing country governments and donor agencies. In particular, it deals with the appropriate measurement of foreign aid and its possibly pernicious ...

This thesis focuses on the impact of European Union (EU) Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reforms on structural change in the EU agricultural sector. The CAP is still the most integrated of all EU policies and consequently ...

The socioeconomic composition of attendance at the arts has interested researchers and policy-makers for decades and re-emerges as an issue every few years. This thesis studies cultural attendance in Italy and its main ...

The harmful effects of smoking on population health have long been shown. More recently, the exposure to second hand smoke (SHS) has also been proved to have detrimental health effects (U.S.DHHS, 2006). In order to improve ...

The aim of my PhD thesis is to assess the consequences of possible Doha Round outcomes for China. The thesis is introduced in Chapter 1, which discusses the motivation for the thesis and outlines its structure. Chapter 2 ...

Diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) are designed to classify hospital output into a manageable number of groups, containing patients who were clinically homogeneous with similar levels of resource utilisation. Where DRGs are ...

This thesis is based on a unique data set that contains records for prominent classical composers. The novelty of these data allows for the overcoming of methodological challenges of previous studies as well as data ...

The core of this thesis consists of three chapters. In the first chapter we introduce fiscal policy of trading partners in the study of the effect of fiscal policy on the domestic growth rate. The effects of economic ...

Economic simulation approaches still receive little recognition in the mainstream economic community. On the one hand, this is due to the non-conformity of simulations with the traditional economic paradigm which relies ...