Economics in action: Three essays

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" Economics in action: Three essays "

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	802920
Doc. No	:	TL48100
Call number	:	‭1652566992;‮ ‬3673760‬
Main Entry	:	Besharati, Adib
Title & Author	:	Economics in action: Three essays
	:	\ Seyed M. Karimi
	:	Gahvari, Firouz
College	:	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date	:	2014
Degree	:	Ph.D.
student score	:	2014
field of study	:	Economics
Page No	:	161
Note	:	Committee members: Baer, Werner; Polborn, Mattias; Salehi-Esfahani, Hadi
Note	:	Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-321-51385-1
Abstract	:	In this thesis, I examine the health, welfare, and distributional implications of the society's institutions and public policies in three separate chapters. In the first chapter, I show that exposure to Muslim religious fasting month during gestation results in significant decline in the body height. In the second chapter, I examine the welfare, fiscal, and environmental consequences of a structural change in the public policy that substitute indirect energy and food subsidies -- price subsidies -- with direct cash transfers to household. Finally, in the third chapter, I measure the distributional effects of several countrywide welfare programs in interaction with economic growth and households' characteristics. In the followings, I have provided summaries of each chapter.
Subject	:	Economics; Labor economics; Middle Eastern Studies; Public policy
Descriptor	:	Social sciences;Body height;Fasting;Poverty;Subsidies;Welfare
Added Entry	:	Gahvari, Firouz
Added Entry	:	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
	:	Economics