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(Vanderbilt University, 1984)
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(2019-05-31)Department: Leadership and Policy StudiesEducation scholars have long recognized the importance of high-quality leadership for the success of schools. However, our understanding of the labor market for principals remains quite shallow. In particular, there is a ...
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(2023-03-23)Department: EconomicsIn this dissertation, I analyze the effects of expanding access to financial markets and securities during the early twentieth century and study how the expansion was affected by the Great Depression. The mechanisms for ...
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(2015-03-30)Department: EconomicsTitle lending, in which a borrower uses his car title as collateral for a short-term, high-interest loan, is a growing part of the alternative financial market. These loans provide credit to a group of American who are not ...
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(2016-07-05)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation contains 3 essays that analyze different aspects of corporate taxation. The first essay studies optimal corporate taxes using an enhanced version of the Melitz trade model that contains heterogeneous ...
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(2016-04-09)Department: EconomicsIn my dissertation, I develop new methods to understand the distributional effect of participating in a program or experiencing a treatment. This goal is different from most research in economics which either (i) restricts ...
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(2009-04-08)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation is comprised of three essays. The first essay studies the problem of optimal law enforcement when individuals violating the law generate positive externalities for other violators. These externalities ...
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(2023-07-18)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesMany education policies are broadly implemented to have a positive impact on equity of opportunity for all students. However well-intentioned, these policies sometimes lead to unintended consequences. This dissertation ...
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(2005-12-05)Department: ManagementMy dissertation focuses on the incentives from executive stock and stock option ownership, how these incentives affect the welfare of firms’ different stakeholders, and how these stakeholders respond. In the first chapter, ...
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(2016-07-22)Department: EconomicsUnder the National Banking Acts of 1863 and 1864, the U.S. banking system simultaneously experienced immense growth and also severe financial instability stemming from nationwide banking panics. This dissertation explores ...
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(2012-07-23)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation studies the relationships among financial development, financial integration and growth. Chapter One motivates the dissertation by discussing the importance of financial market development and financial ...
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(2021-04-27)Department: EconomicsWhile standard trade models are built on static settings with stable aggregate environment, data show that firms exit and enter international markets over time, suggesting that these decisions are dynamic in nature. The ...
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(2013-07-03)Department: EconomicsFirm-level market entry decisions and post-entry growth are at the core of the industrial organization literature. This dissertation investigates the impact of demand side factors on firm-level market entry, subsequent ...
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(2016-04-19)Department: EconomicsAt least half of personal health spending in the U.S. is related to behavior, lifestyle or other avoidable causes. This dissertation contributes to a recent growing literature which aims to understand what affects health ...
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(2022-06-22)Department: EconomicsMacroeconomic shocks significantly impact inequality because households react differently depending on their wealth, income, and occupation. These heterogeneous responses influence macroeconomic outcomes because they feed ...
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(2020-05-28)Department: Leadership & Policy StudiesSchool reform efforts aimed at turning around chronically low-performing schools have received substantial policy and research attention. One common turnaround intervention requires schools to replace teachers, under the ...
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(2023-07-20)Department: EconomicsStructural vector autoregressive models are one of the most widely applied tools in empirical macroeconomic research, and impulse responses are often employed in these models to evaluate the effect of economic shocks on ...
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(2008-07-31)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation is an economic analysis of the legal aspects of international trade institutions. In particular, I analyze the system of remedies, the role of a court for international trade disputes, and settlement ...
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(2016-07-29)Department: Political ScienceThis dissertation is comprised of three essays on institutions, aid, and conflict. The first essay uses a formal model of revolution to argue that non-state aid can undermine the incentive of political opposition groups ...
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(2016-07-13)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation studies intellectual property and product standards policies in the global economy. The first chapter evaluates the case for national treatment (NT) as specified in the clause of the World Trade Organization. ...