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Moving Targets: Managing Interinstitutional Relationships in Green Building Design and Construction.
(2013)
The act of building typically results in significant consumption of land and natural resources through both construction and building use, as well as the production of both indoor air pollution and landfill waste. Yet green ...
Three Essays on the US Labor Market: Macroeconomic Trends and Cycles.
(2012)
This dissertation consists of three essays on the US labor market. The first two chapters examine the dynamics of the labor market in search models of unemployment. The third chapter concerns the rising nonemployment of ...
Aesthetic and Value Judgment of Neotenous Objects: Cuteness as a Design Factor and its Effects on Product Evaluation.
(2012)
From the perspective of evolutionary psychology, neoteny entails the specific appearance and traits of babies that tend to trigger protective behaviors by adults. Based on Lorenz (1970), five dimensions of neotenic cues ...
Essays on the Empirical Study of Migration, Intrahousehold Trade-offs, and Infrastructure Investments
(2012)
Education and infrastructure are two important development strategies in low-income countries. They foster economic growth by improving labor productivity and facilitating market integration. Evaluating them poses a ...
Two Sides of Self-Enhancement in Consumer Word-of-Mouth.
(2012)
This dissertation explores self-enhancement in the exchange of consumption information (word-of-mouth) from the perspective of both the source and recipient of this information. The first essay demonstrates that unfavorable ...
Avoiding the Buyer's Fallacy: Consumer Perceptions of Products Before Purchase.
(2013)
Consumers are motivated to find the products that will provide the greatest benefit; however, choosing the right product is not an easy task. Consumers must choose between a myriad of products with varying features despite ...
Essays on Information Technology and Organizational Form in the Health Care Industry.
(2012)
Employment of physicians by hospitals can confer greater administrative control to hospitals over physicians’ actions and resources and thereby enable efficiency gains, including implementation of enterprise-wide initiatives, ...
Three Essays on Estimation with Unpriced Amenities.
(2012)
Variation in the quality of job matches is an important determinant of workers' search decisions and the distribution of wages. I develop a structural search model that allows job match quality to depend on unpriced job ...
Three Essays on Labor Market Entry.
(2012)
Recent studies have found a large earnings premium to attending a more selective college, but the mechanisms underlying this premium have received little attention and remain unclear. In the first chapter, I develop a ...
Perceptions of Stakeholder Salience for NCAA Campus Student-Athlete Advisory Committees.
(2011)
This study used stakeholder theory (Freeman, 1984; Mitchell, Agle, & Wood, 1997) to frame an examination of the influence of campus student-athlete advisory committees (SAACs) with their institutional athletics administrators ...