Radwan Ahmed Radwan, Amr (Date of defense: 2014-09-23)
Obesity is a growing wide spread epidemic all over the world, in developed as well as developing countries. Taking into account its nature as a complex phenomenon affected by different aspects including ...
Davtyan, Karen (Date of defense: 2016-04-29)
The general objective of the doctoral thesis is to evaluate the distributive effects of macroeconomic policies. In particular, the thesis assesses the distributional impact of fiscal policy, conventional ...
Rocha Franco, Sérgio H. (Date of defense: 2019-05-22)
My general objective with this thesis is to contribute to the search for connections between postcolonial and critical understandings in urban studies. Building on my analysis of the urban trajectories ...
Nieto Viramontes, Sandra (Date of defense: 2014-09-26)
Investment in human capital is a key tool for the social and economic progress in every country. Thus one of the most important public policies in the last century has focused on increasing the level ...
Gonzalez Aregall, Marta (Date of defense: 2016-02-01)
The present thesis carries out an empirical and economic analysis of the port infrastructure across the evaluation of specific policies. First, the thesis focuses on quantifying the economic impact of ...
Olivieri Agazzi, María Cecilia (Date of defense: 2019-10-15)
The dissertation addresses the analysis of inequality in various aspects of the economy and aims to contribute to the evaluation of public policies, as well as to the identification of possible effects ...
Scandurra, Rosario Ivano (Date of defense: 2016-11-18)
This thesis deals with how adult skills are acquired. The proxies of adult skills used throughout the thesis are extracted from the Programme of International Assessment of Adult Skills (PIAAC), a survey ...
Osorio Mejía, Ana María (Date of defense: 2013-06-14)
The overall aim of this thesis is to contribute to an understanding of the pathways through which structural and intermediary determinants influence child health in Colombia and how they operate through ...
Martínez Farrero, Santi (Date of defense: 2015-02-06)
With the exception of the different studies performed by Márquez Cruz, and the report about local government (Magre, 2006), there is no other research, in Spain, with the level of detail of the current ...
Costas-Pérez, Elena (Date of defense: 2014-10-17)
This dissertation analyses the effects of information on corruption cases on citizens’ electoral behaviour and the media coverage of those scandals. Corruption, defined as the abuse of public office for ...