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Data-Driven Optimization in Revenue Management: Pricing, Assortment Planning, and Demand Learning
(2020)
This dissertation studies several problems in revenue management involving dynamic pricing, assortment selection, and their joint optimization, through demand learning. The setting in these problems is that customers’ ...
Three Enquiries Concerning Hospital-Physician Vertical Integration
(2020)
Hospitals and physicians in the United States increasingly work together under common ownership. Over the past decade, physicians have gravitated toward employment at hospital-owned facilities and hospitals have acquired ...
The Long-Term Effects of Housing and Criminal Justice Policy: Evidence and Methods
(2021)
This dissertation combines research from multiple areas of applied economics and is mostly focused on estimating the long-term impacts of housing and criminal justice policy. In addition, this dissertation covers an important ...
The Moralization of Intrinsic Motivation
(2022)
Business research and practice have emphasized the value of intrinsic motivation for over 50 years. In my dissertation, I argue that this valuation can have unintended negative consequences for employees. Specifically, I ...
Essays in Public Finance and Taxation
(2021)
This dissertation uses administrative tax data to study behavioral responses to taxation and tax enforcement. Chapter I focuses on the two tax penalties associated with Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs). Chapter II ...
Networked Miscommunication: The Relationship Between Communication Networks, Misunderstandings, and Organizational Performance
(2020)
In this dissertation, I introduce and define the concept of networked miscommunication – unintentional, aggregated effects of communication practices throughout an organization – and demonstrate its deleterious impacts on ...
What is a Labor Market? Classifying Workers and Jobs Using Network Theory
(2022)
This dissertation combines economic theory and network theory to develop a new methodology for identifying latent worker and job heterogeneity from the network of worker-job matches in linked employer-employee data sets. ...
Religion and Social Behaviors: Using Religious Reminders to Promote Honesty and Using Prompt-based Interactions to Reduce Bias Against Religious Minorities
(2022)
Religion is intertwined with social behaviors. While most of the world’s population claims an affiliation with some religion, little research exists on how multiple dimensions of religion and religious reminders impact ...
Improving Worker Performance with Human-Centered Data Science
(2021)
Advances in information technologies not only provide novel tools to support work in the traditional sectors; they also create additional employment opportunities in the modern workforce where work contexts have been largely ...
How do managers evaluate individual contributions to team production? A theory and empirical test
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2022-12)
Research SummaryOrganizations rely on subjective evaluations to reward employees for team-based performance. However, it is unclear how supervisors determine individuals’ contributions to collective output. We theorize ...