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(2015-06-02)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation consists of three chapters, each of which addresses a different issue in the strand of literature on international macroeconomics, broadly defined. The first chapter shows that surprise movements in stock ...
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(2013-07-29)Department: EconomicsMy dissertation consists of three essays that study the properties of international business cycle, and the underline driving forces of their comovement. In the first essay, I check the determinants of business cycle ...
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(2011-08-03)Department: EconomicsThe debate over the effects of globalization remains lively. The first chapter of the dissertation makes the point that the use of datasets that contain data on individual workers holds the promise of advancing this debate. ...
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(2011-06-08)Department: EconomicsThis work is concerned with the interdependent relationship between trade and the environment. It comprises three chapters. The first chapter (work done jointly with Joel Rodrigue) builds and estimates a dynamic model of ...
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(2010-04-16)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation consists of three studies concerning intragenerational and intergenerational inequalities in the Social Security Program caused by different mortality rates across age cohorts and racial groups. The first ...
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(2013-06-27)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation will consist of three chapters investigating topics on macroeconomics and dynamic factor models. In the first chapter, I develop theoretical open-economy economic models to analyze the role of asymmetric ...
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(2020-05-13)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation introduces a new model of peer effects in social networks with sample selection. In this model, an original exogenous network structure influences the binary choices of network members; these choices in ...
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(2023-07-12)Department: EconomicsThe United States has a low turnout rate compared to many of its peer nations; one potential explanation is high voting "costs" or barriers to political participation. Many state lawmakers have attempted to lower these ...
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(2019-03-27)Department: Political ScienceThis dissertation is comprised of three essays on representation and accountability in Mexico. In the first essay, I argue that legislators’ responsiveness to their constituents is influenced by their career ambitions and ...
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(2018-06-29)Department: EconomicsEducation and access to legal drugs are two key issues that are influenced by public policy and that may have effects on population health among all ages. I use a variety of data sources to examine examples of these effects ...
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(2023-07-17)Department: EconomicsMultiproduct exporters play a dominant role in international trade, yet their strategic decisions as multiproduct firms, particularly regarding product bundling, have received limited attention in the trade literature. ...
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(2010-08-10)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation is comprised of three essays. The first essay tests the empirical validity of a statistical discrimination model that incorporates employer's race. I show that if an employer statistically discriminates ...
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(2008-07-25)Department: EconomicsMy dissertation evaluates technology adoption and transfer both theoretically and empirically, with the goal of providing new insights into the consequences of technology adoption -- an area that remains understudied in ...
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(2016-06-24)Department: EconomicsLegacy carriers in the U.S. airline industry have a long history of vigorously defending their most important hubs from low cost carrier expansion. Since 2005, the U.S. airline industry has undergone some of the most ...
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(2012-07-23)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation considers questions of information in industrial organization, focusing particularly on the structural analysis of auction and market data. Chapters 1 and 2 explore selection in auctions with entry, ...
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(2023-11-17)Department: Political ScienceThis dissertation comprises three essays on the LGBTQ+ candidate entry process in Brazil. The first essay seeks to gauge how individuating information about a gay candidate may affect approval of gay people’s right to run. ...
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(2021-05-17)Department: EconomicsA Bayesian game is a game in which players have incomplete information about the other players. As a natural extension of games with complete information, Bayesian games are usually difficult to analyze both theoretically ...
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(2023-07-12)Department: EconomicsCausal inference is a constant theme in econometrics. In this dissertation, I explore three issues related to policy analysis within the context of complex data structures. In the first chapter, I perform a sensitivity ...
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(2016-03-15)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation considers questions in the econometrics of discrete games of complete information. Chapter 1 proposes an econometric framework that explicitly models the selection of equilibria as a discrete choice ...
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(2020-06-18)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation includes three papers which use modern microeconometric methods to estimate the causal effect of policies relevant to education and urban economics. The first chapter explores whether state mandated ...