Three Essays in Energy and Policy Analysis

During, Adegboyega Daniel

Three Essays in Energy and Policy Analysis

dc.contributor.advisor	Gordon, Daniel Vernon
dc.contributor.author	During, Adegboyega Daniel
dc.contributor.committeemember	Walls, W. David
dc.contributor.committeemember	Boyce, John R.
dc.date	2020-02
dc.date.accessioned	2020-01-08T22:32:46Z
dc.date.available	2020-01-08T22:32:46Z
dc.date.issued	2020-01-03
dc.description.abstract	This dissertation consists of three chapters. In the first chapter, I estimated the cost of lifting natural gas in Alberta. I applied activity based costing to estimate the cost of production for each well for the period under review and used this in estimating the production parameter in a Cobb-Douglas model. I subjected this to various robustness tests and the results were consistent across the variations of the data applied. The contribution of this paper is to add to empirical understanding of the cost characteristics in lifting natural gas at the well level using data from wells in Alberta, Canada. I am particularly interested in measuring for common factors affecting production costs across reservoirs and also for individual well effects. In the second chapter, I investigate how an important policy impacted crude oil production in some states in Nigeria and restored peace back in the region. Using a difference-in-differences approach, I estimate the causal effect of amnesty on crude oil production in three states of the Niger Delta region that experienced militant attacks. I find that this policy eliminated the militant activities and increased crude oil production in these three states by about 40% relative to the six control states. The results suggest that rather than the repressive actions of the government in the past, amnesty was a better solution in the short term to ensure relative peace and sustained crude oil production in the region. In the final chapter, I consider how institutional changes, once in place, effect educational outcomes. In this chapter, I examine the effect of a change from a civil law to Sharia law impacts education outcomes of Muslims in the states that adopted Sharia law. I found that contrary to the subjective reasoning of the average southern non Muslims, Sharia had no negative impact on education outcomes as a whole. I further estimated these effects by sex, age, and intensity of adoption of Sharia and found that females in High Intensive Sharia states were affected by the adoption of Sharia and they lost between half and three quarters of a year of education. On the extensive effect of Sharia conducted via probit, there was an increase in the probability of enrolment in school of between 14% and 18%. These effects are estimated through difference-in-differences and triple differences approaches.	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	During, A. D. (2020). Three Essays in Energy and Policy Analysis (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/37421
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1880/111448
dc.language.iso	eng	en_US
dc.publisher.faculty	Arts	en_US
dc.publisher.institution	University of Calgary	en
dc.rights	University of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.	en_US
dc.subject	Conflict	en_US
dc.subject	Amnesty	en_US
dc.subject	Sharia	en_US
dc.subject	Education Outcomes	en_US
dc.subject	Natural Gas	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Economics	en_US
dc.title	Three Essays in Energy and Policy Analysis	en_US
dc.type	doctoral thesis	en_US
thesis.degree.discipline	Economics	en_US
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Calgary	en_US
thesis.degree.name	Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)	en_US
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