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Essays in Labor Economics.
(2013)
My dissertation research extends the analysis of the effects of two major safety net programs, the unemployment benefits program and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), beyond the traditional outcomes ...
College and University Disaster Management: The Impact of Leader Behavior on Response and Recovery from Disaster.
(2012)
The word disaster evokes vivid and painful memories for most U.S. citizens. While for many the word brings to mind images of September 11th, for others it might trigger memories of a major earthquake, oil spill, or even ...
Essays in Household Saving Behavior and Effects of Growth.
(2012)
Chapter 1: Keeping Up with the Zhangs - Household Saving Behavior as a Function of Relative Wealth
Economic research has established that wealthier households have higher average saving rates. Using Chinese household ...
Enabling Shared Leadership in Hierarchical Groups.
(2013)
Despite the long-recognized importance of informal influence processes in organizations, leadership researchers have traditionally assumed that the designated managers of groups fulfill all of the groups’ leadership ...
Essays on the Theory and Empirical Evidence Regarding Spatial Tax Competition.
(2012)
The United States commodity tax system is fiscally decentralized: state, county, and municipal governments have taxing authority. Geographic borders create “lines,”' which are demarcations of goods into different tax rate ...
New Perspectives on Regression Adjustment in Causal Inference, with Applications to Educational Program Evaluation.
(2013)
Causal inference from observational data—that is, data that did not come from an experiment—is
notoriously difficult: because the probability distribution of the treatment variable Z is unknown,measured or unmeasured variables ...
Three Essays on the Economics of Education.
(2013)
This dissertation examines the effects of education policies implemented during primary and secondary school on educational attainment. Chapters 1 and 3 focus on a policy recently implemented in Michigan in which the ACT ...
Skill in Interpersonal Networks.
(2013)
I study the cognitive and behavioral skills that people use to navigate social networks at work, via three separate but related papers. Paper 1 argues that relational schemas, which are the cognitive schemas that people ...
Essays on Government Policy and Macroeconomics.
(2012)
This dissertation consists of two chapters on the effect of government policy and macroeconomics. Chapter 1 analyzes two aspects of post 1980 United States regulatory regime for commercial banks. Using FDIC historical and ...
The Structure and Evolution of Entry Costs in Trade.
(2013)
The first essay addresses the structure of sunk export entry costs. Heterogeneous firm models of international trade include a country specific sunk cost that firms pay to enter a foreign market. Despite the important role ...