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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. ...
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(2022-03-24)Department: EconomicsThis dissertation consists of three papers that use modern microeconometric methods to estimate the causal effect of intergovernmental grant programs on local spending and policy outcomes. The first chapter explores how ...
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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 ...