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DC 欄位 | 值 | 語言 |
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dc.contributor.advisor | 張宏浩(Hung-Hao Chang) | |
dc.contributor.author | Kannika Saeliw | en |
dc.contributor.author | 劉永潔 | zh_TW |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-06-16T03:43:15Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-03-13 | |
dc.date.copyright | 2015-03-13 | |
dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2015-02-10 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Abbott, M., & Cohen, B. (2009). Productivity and efficiency in the water industry. Utilities Policy, 17(3-4), 233-244.
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dc.identifier.uri | http://tdr.lib.ntu.edu.tw/jspui/handle/123456789/54977 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This dissertation is a collection of three independent empirical essays in economic resources using data from Taiwan and Thailand. The first chapter contributes to the field of human resources. As an increasing trend in cross-border marriages has been a unique social phenomenon in East Asia countries, this study contributes to this research topic by examining the differences in academic performance of the elementary school children between Taiwanese and foreign spouses family. Using a unique dataset of the school children drawn from one specific public elementary school with a high proportion of children from foreign spouse families in Taiwan, we investigated the differences in students’ academic performance in language, mathematics, and social studies from these two types of families. Results indicated that school children of the foreign spouse families had lower academic performance, and this finding was more pronounced for language class. In addition, the differences in maternal education between the foreign spouses and Taiwanese families accounted for a significant proportion of the overall gap in students' academic performances between the two groups.
The next two chapters contribute to the field of natural resources. The second chapter provides a possible explanation of why different product prices can exist in an industry consisting of many small firms with perfectly identical products. we underscore the importance of the spatial competition on price determination using a survey data of bottled Liquefied Petroleum Gas firms in Taiwan. A spatial lag model was estimated to empirically test whether spatial differentiation results in strategic interdependence in price determination among many small wholesalers after controlling for firm characteristics, cost and demand conditions. We found evidence of pricing power from spatial differentiation in local wholesale markets even though the industry is highly competitive. Results showed a positive spatial interaction of firms' competition behaviors. Specification test showed that firms were more likely to engage in strategic interaction in pricing with nearby firms, especially with its four-closest rivals. Moreover, the variations in wholesale prices were driven by market conditions and spatial competition in local market rather than firms' marginal costs. The third chapter provides an empirical evidence of efficiencies of waterworks in Thailand and discusses the spatial heterogeneity of the effects of the determinants of technical efficiency of waterworks. We used a unique dataset of 211 waterworks operating in Thailand from 2007-2011 to analyze factors contributing to inefficiency in Thai waterworks and then test whether the effect of these factors significantly vary across locations. Our findings indicated that all waterworks were not technically efficient and there is dispersion in efficiency levels across waterworks. We found that user density, capacity usage rate, and size had positive impact on the level of technical efficiency. The parameter estimates varied significantly across the study region and revealed some pattern. In particular, these effects were stronger in the northern area and some areas of north-eastern than in the southern area. | en |
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dc.description.tableofcontents | Acknowledgements iii
Abstract iv List of Tables ix List of Figures xi Chapter 1: Are Elementary School Children from Foreign Spouse Families Left Behind in Academic Performance? Empirical Evidence from Taiwan 1 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 Data 3 1.3 The Analytical Framework 4 1.4 Empirical Results 6 1.4.1 Were there any differences in academic performance and observable characteristics between schoolchildren from immigrant families and those from Taiwanese families? 6 1.4.2 What are the determinants of students’ academic performance? 7 1.4.3 What parts of observable characteristics were most likely to affect the test score gap between the two groups of schoolchildren? 10 1.5 Conclusions and Policy Implications 11 Chapter 2: Spatial Competition in the Wholesale Liquefied Petroleum Gas Market in Taiwan 13 2.1 Introduction 13 2.2 Data 17 2.3 The analytical framework 19 2.3.1 The weights matrices of firm’s competitors 24 2.4. Empirical results 25 2.4.1 Testing for Spatial Effects 25 2.4.2 The Spatial Interaction in LPG Pricing and Demand Determinants 26 2.5. Conclusions and Policy Implications 29 Chapter 3: What Determine the Technical Efficiency of Waterworks in Thailand? Application of the SFA method and Geographically Weighted Regression 31 3.1 Introduction 31 3.2 Data 35 3.3 The Analytical Framework 39 3.3.1 Estimating technical efficiency by using the panel stochastic frontier model 39 3.3.2 Testing spatially varying influences of the determinants on technical efficiency by using geographically weighted regression 43 3.4 Empirical results 45 3.4.1 Technical efficiencies of waterworks 46 3.4.2 Determinants of technical efficiencies 46 3.5 Conclusions and Policy Implications 50 References 52 List of Tables Chapter 1: Are Elementary School Children from Foreign Spouse Families Left Behind in Academic Performance? Empirical Evidence from Taiwan Table 1. 1: Sample Statistics of the Variables 64 Table 1. 2: Estimations of the Student Achievement Equations 66 Table 1. 3: Decomposition of the Academic Performance of Schoolchildren 67 Chapter 2: Spatial Competition in the Wholesale Liquefied Petroleum Gas Market in Taiwan Table 2. 1: Variables definitions and sample statistics of the variables 68 Table 2. 2 : Empirical results 69 Table 2. 3: Empirical results, August 2009-December 70 Chapter 3: What Determine the Technical Efficiency of Waterworks in Thailand? Application of the DEA method and Geographically Weighted Regression Table 3. 1 : selected recent efficiency studies of the water utilities 71 Table 3. 2: Definition and sample statistics of production output and inputs for waterworks 73 Table 3. 3: Definition and sample statistics for explanatory variables 74 Table 3. 4: Sample statistics of the estimated technical efficiency scores 75 Table 3. 5: Ordinary least square (OLS) and geographical weighted regression (GWR) results, 2011 76 Table 3. 6:Ordinary least square (OLS) and geographical weighted regression (GWR) results, 2007-2008 77 Table 3. 7: Ordinary least square (OLS) and geographical weighted regression (GWR) results, 2009-2010 78 Appendix Table A2. 1: Diagnostic tests for all weighting schemes 84 Table A3. 1: Empirical results of the random effects stochastic frontier model 86 | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.title | 應用個體計量經濟學於人力與自然資源之三篇論文集 | zh_TW |
dc.title | Three Essays of Applied Microeconometrics in Human and Natural Resources | en |
dc.type | Thesis | |
dc.date.schoolyear | 103-1 | |
dc.description.degree | 博士 | |
dc.contributor.coadvisor | 孫立群(Li-Chyun Sun) | |
dc.contributor.oralexamcommittee | 余家斌(Chia-Pin Yu),陳鎮洲(Jennjou Chen),王俊豪(Jiun-Hao Wang),廖培安(Pei-An Liao) | |
dc.subject.keyword | 外籍配偶,學習成績,空間落遲模型,桶裝液態石油氣,空間競爭,自來水廠,生產效率,隨機前緣分析,地理加權回歸,泰國,台灣, | zh_TW |
dc.subject.keyword | Foreign spouse,Academic performance,Spatial lag model,Bottled liquefied petroleum gas,Spatial competition,waterworks,technical efficiency,Stochastic frontier model,Geographically weighted regression,Thailand,Taiwan, | en |
dc.relation.page | 86 | |
dc.rights.note | 有償授權 | |
dc.date.accepted | 2015-02-11 | |
dc.contributor.author-college | 生物資源暨農學院 | zh_TW |
dc.contributor.author-dept | 農業經濟學研究所 | zh_TW |
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