In filling their armed forces, many countries rely on conscription, which interrupts conscripts’ labor market participation and accumulation of human capital. Thus, conscription likely affects one’s future earnings. In this paper, I investigate the effects of conscription eligibility in the Netherlands and in Italy on subsequent future earnings. I use a difference-in-difference method, using women as the counterfactual, on Luxembourg Income Study data to calculate the effects of conscription eligibility. I find no systematic earnings effects of conscription. While the existence of educational deferments increase the demand for postsecondary education and hence increase future earnings, factors like military culture, military philosophy, and jobs assigned to conscripts produce different results in the two countries. I find that the Dutch conscription increased (by 6-17%) eligible young men’s earnings while the Italian conscription had no effect or slightly decreased eligible young men’s earnings.

This thesis is centrally concerned with the texts of Jacques Derrida that have addressed directly the theme of sexual difference. Yet to say the thesis is centrally concerned with a philosophy that positions itself clearly as one that deconstructs centrality and its trajectory of return, is to face the crisis or chiasmus of my concern. The thesis is not returned to Derrida. If the question of feminism for Derrida is a question from the margins, from interruptions, of the trace and of la cendre, ashes, the question of sexual difference is primordially and originarily that of the undecidability of the name, signatory, and textual border. She would not have appeared here. Therefore she cannot return. There are two frames to this research that can be recognized in the chapter sequence of the thesis. Initially I develop a preparatory engagement to a questioning of the ontology of sexual difference, with Chapters 2 and 3, with a questioning that broaches the metaphysics of the feminine with respect to the texts of Derrida, Heidegger and Cixous in particular and further engages with Écriture Féminine, Levinas and feminist responses to Heidegger and Levinas. However, this broader questioning is undertaken in order to develop a sharper focus on the writings of Derrida that address Heidegger’s ontological difference, Levinas’s ethics before being, and a more originary questioning of sexual difference. The second frame and predominant focus of the thesis is on Derrida’s approach to the metaphysics of the feminine with four pivotal texts by Derrida from the late 1970s and early 1980s examined in Chapters 4 to 7. Each addresses a questioning of difference and the metaphysical tradition, under difference’s many names: ontological difference, sexual difference, différance, and engages deconstruction’s encounters with Nietzsche & Heidegger (Spurs); the psychoanalysts Abraham & Torok (“Fors”); Levinas (“At This Very Moment in This Work Here I Am”) and Hegel (Glas). In bringing together these four texts, my aim is to emphasize the significance of a double deconstructive movement of transgression and restoration, as this research’s politico-ethical acts of writing and reading for an otherwise discourse on sexual difference. This otherwise discourse has always already been produced with phallogocentrism and remains critical for the inventing of thresholds across philosophy, literature and their others. The ashen Preface enkindles a paradigmatic figure as deconstructive trace of sexual difference in writing and reading practices. A Postscript questions the binding to institutional laws constitutive of disciplinary practice while the fiery trace in Derrida’s writing on Kafka’s law concludes on the ash-laden edges of Blanchot’s unavowable work.

<p>I denna studie undersöks huruvida den ökade alkoholkonsumtionen utgör ett problem för att</p><p>uppnå Nollvisionen. Genom att använda experimentet med lördagsöppna Systembolag</p><p>estimeras effekterna av en ökning i alkoholkonsumtion på trafikolyckor. Försöket med de</p><p>lördagsöppna Systembolagsbutikerna i sex län ledde till en ökad alkoholkonsumtion med 3,7</p><p>procent. En Difference-in-Difference metod används för att jämföra effekterna av denna</p><p>ökning på trafikolyckor i de sex försökslän med utvecklingen i en kontrollgrupp. Resultaten</p><p>visar att konsumtionsökningen har ökat det totala antalet trafikolyckor i försökslänen med</p><p>8,5±2,6 procent i jämförelse med kontrollgruppen. Effekterna visar sig även skilja sig åt</p><p>mellan olika olycksutfall; större effekter uppvisades för de svårare olycksutfallskategorierna.</p><p>Den starkaste effekten uppvisades för kategorin svårt skadade som ökade med hela 26,4±5,6</p><p>procent. Resultaten tyder alltså på att den ökade alkoholkonsumtionen utgör ett problem för</p><p>att uppnå Nollvisionen.</p>

<p>In this thesis I estimate a monetary value of the risk attached to living near a hazardous waste</p><p>site in the town of Teckomatorp. This site is the result of hundreds of rusty leaking barrels of</p><p>toxins being buried in the ground by the company BT Kemi in the 1970’s. Ever since then the</p><p>site has been remediated in several steps and is still contaminated today. For estimating the</p><p>perceived risk of living near this site I use a hedonic price model (HP) which is a form of a</p><p>revealed preference approach. In a HP model the price of a market good is a function of</p><p>different utility-bearing characteristics and the estimated parameters can be used to calculate</p><p>the implicit prices of these characteristics. In this case I use a data set from the National</p><p>Swedish Institute for Building Research (IBF) and regress property price on a number of</p><p>housing characteristics. I compare an estimated town-effect for Teckomatorp with the</p><p>estimates for two control towns: Billeberga and Anderslöv. I can confirm my hypothesis that,</p><p>after controlling for housing characteristics, there is a negative effect on prices of property in</p><p>Teckomatorp. I find that property prices are on average 46878 SEK lower in Teckomatorp</p><p>than in the two control towns.</p>

<p>I denna studie undersöks om nedläggningen av Uddevallavarvet och bilsätesfabriken i</p><p>Bengtsfors påverkade andelen sjukskrivningar i respektive kommun. För att estimera</p><p>effekten av företagsnedläggningarnas påverkan på sjukskrivningarna i de två olika</p><p>kommunerna har jag valt att använda mig av difference-in-difference-metoden. Andelen</p><p>sjukskrivningar utvalda veckor under året då företagsnedläggningarna inträffade i de två</p><p>olika kommunerna kommer att jämföras med tidsperioder före och efter nedläggningen.</p><p>Andelen sjukskrivningar utvalda veckor i Uddevalla och Bengtsfors kommun kommer</p><p>även att jämföras med andelen sjukskrivningar motsvarande veckor i en annan jämförbar</p><p>kommun, nämligen Köpings kommun. Genom tillämpning av difference-in-differencemetoden</p><p>erhålls två signifikanta och positiva resultat som tyder på att andelen</p><p>sjukskrivningar ökat i samband med nedläggningen av Uddevallavarvet.</p>

This paper involves the calculation for composition of different layer used in laser structure and the simulation of cavity, formed by creating air columns in the InGaAsP medium, for square lattice. The aim of this project is to fabricate approximately zero threshold current lasers. This project involves FDTD simulation for optimizing dimension of the device, fabrication of laser structure and finally characterization of the device structure. / Singapore-MIT Alliance (SMA)

I denna studie undersöks huruvida den ökade alkoholkonsumtionen utgör ett problem för att uppnå Nollvisionen. Genom att använda experimentet med lördagsöppna Systembolag estimeras effekterna av en ökning i alkoholkonsumtion på trafikolyckor. Försöket med de lördagsöppna Systembolagsbutikerna i sex län ledde till en ökad alkoholkonsumtion med 3,7 procent. En Difference-in-Difference metod används för att jämföra effekterna av denna ökning på trafikolyckor i de sex försökslän med utvecklingen i en kontrollgrupp. Resultaten visar att konsumtionsökningen har ökat det totala antalet trafikolyckor i försökslänen med 8,5±2,6 procent i jämförelse med kontrollgruppen. Effekterna visar sig även skilja sig åt mellan olika olycksutfall; större effekter uppvisades för de svårare olycksutfallskategorierna. Den starkaste effekten uppvisades för kategorin svårt skadade som ökade med hela 26,4±5,6 procent. Resultaten tyder alltså på att den ökade alkoholkonsumtionen utgör ett problem för att uppnå Nollvisionen.

In the last decades a number of countries in the developed world have experienced a drop in voter turnout. The public sector is in the end run by politicians who are elected by the people and for that reason it is interesting to study how a variation in turnout will affect public policy outcome. The purpose of this master’s thesis is to investigate the potential causal link that runs between voting system, turnout and policy by empirically testing the Meltzer &amp; Richard’s theory from 1981. I use Swedish and Finnish municipal panel data and apply IV-regression. The constitutional change in 1970 when Sweden changed from having separate election days for the central and the local governments into having one joint election day, is used as instrument for turnout. I find that an increased turnout rate also leads to higher local tax rate indicating that turnout actually has an impact on policy outcome.

This study employs the data from real estate transactions provided by the Department of Land Administration. This study uses the Hedonic Price method and the Difference-in-Difference method to analyze the impact of indoor and outdoor properties on housing prices. In our study, the properties of floor space, stories, age, proximity to MRT stations, and proximity to elementary schools are important factors affecting the housing prices. The results estimated by Difference-in-Difference method show that the coefficient on homes within 500 meters distance of the MRT stations and the coefficient after MRT operating are both significantly positive on housing prices. Although the coefficient on the interaction term is positive, it is not statistically significant.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sydney, 2002. / Title from title screen (viewed November 19, 2009) Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts. Degree awarded 2002; thesis submitted 2001. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in print form.