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Three Essays on Trade, Environment, and Migration
Full text linkThis dissertation broadly studies impacts of globalization in two specific areas: environmental policy and migratory patterns. In my work, globalization refers to domestic tariff and industrial planning, changes in foreign market access, and technology diffusion through international trade.
In my first chapter, I study the environmental implications of optimal tariff and industrial policy. World governments and multinational institutions are implementing, largely, unilateral policies to correct for negative externalities exhibited by greenhouse gas emissions. These policies take two broad forms: pricing and subsides. When crafting policy, external economies of scale should be considered as they alter the effectiveness of optimal unilateral policy. First, I provide novel estimates of the external scale factor and the carbon di-oxide abatement elasticity. Second, I show that industries that exhibit stronger agglomeration effects also have higher pollution intensities across a variety of pollutants including carbon di - oxide. Policy makers should be cognizant of these effects when implementing industrial policy.
In my second chapter, I study the impacts of increased foreign competition in India on urban - rural migration. I use the Indian trade liberalization in the 1990’s to study the impacts of trade liberalization on the internal labor allocation of a country. Prior literature has found limited effects of changes in trade on the labor allocation in more developed countries. However, a literature is developing analyzing these effects in developing countries. I find that districts that were more impacted by trade liberalization experience a net loss of inter-district migrant workers and experience more intra-district migrants. These headline patterns are heterogeneous with gender, as well as origin and destination at the urban-rural level.
In my third chapter, I study how international trade acts as a mechanism for the diffusion of clean technology. Valuing the spillovers of clean technology subsidies in the wealthy world is important to understanding the value of this spending and has direct policy implications in efforts to curtail climate change. I explore how trade in intermediate goods is a channel for diffusion of lower carbon production. The results suggest that countries that import cleaner intermediate goods have cleaner domestic production. I aim to value the positive spillover benefits of clean technology spending for the rest of the world. Policy wise, there is debate between industrial policy and border adjustments in terms of targeting carbon leakage. To inform this debate, correctly evaluating these extra benefits is essential to mitigating global emissions.</p
Three Essays on Trade, Environment, and Migration
Full text linkThis dissertation broadly studies impacts of globalization in two specific areas: environmental policy and migratory patterns. In my work, globalization refers to domestic tariff and industrial planning, changes in foreign market access, and technology diffusion through international trade.
In my first chapter, I study the environmental implications of optimal tariff and industrial policy. World governments and multinational institutions are implementing, largely, unilateral policies to correct for negative externalities exhibited by greenhouse gas emissions. These policies take two broad forms: pricing and subsides. When crafting policy, external economies of scale should be considered as they alter the effectiveness of optimal unilateral policy. First, I provide novel estimates of the external scale factor and the carbon di-oxide abatement elasticity. Second, I show that industries that exhibit stronger agglomeration effects also have higher pollution intensities across a variety of pollutants including carbon di - oxide. Policy makers should be cognizant of these effects when implementing industrial policy.
In my second chapter, I study the impacts of increased foreign competition in India on urban - rural migration. I use the Indian trade liberalization in the 1990’s to study the impacts of trade liberalization on the internal labor allocation of a country. Prior literature has found limited effects of changes in trade on the labor allocation in more developed countries. However, a literature is developing analyzing these effects in developing countries. I find that districts that were more impacted by trade liberalization experience a net loss of inter-district migrant workers and experience more intra-district migrants. These headline patterns are heterogeneous with gender, as well as origin and destination at the urban-rural level.
In my third chapter, I study how international trade acts as a mechanism for the diffusion of clean technology. Valuing the spillovers of clean technology subsidies in the wealthy world is important to understanding the value of this spending and has direct policy implications in efforts to curtail climate change. I explore how trade in intermediate goods is a channel for diffusion of lower carbon production. The results suggest that countries that import cleaner intermediate goods have cleaner domestic production. I aim to value the positive spillover benefits of clean technology spending for the rest of the world. Policy wise, there is debate between industrial policy and border adjustments in terms of targeting carbon leakage. To inform this debate, correctly evaluating these extra benefits is essential to mitigating global emissions.</p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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