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Two Views of Agency in Patient Advocates' Problem-Handling Work: Storytelling and Rule Use.
(2008)
Patient advocates are hospital employees who handle the non-medical problems and complaints that patients and their families experience while receiving care in hospitals. Using qualitative data from interviews and shadowing ...
The Construction of Preference in Engineering Design and Implications for Green Products
(2008)
This dissertation incorporates the construction of preference into engineering design methodology. Currently, engineers view customer preferences as existing a priori, evoking metaphors such as “need-finding.” For some ...
Essays on Identification and Estimation of Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models.
(2008)
The estimation of dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models is the subject of a rapidly growing literature. This dissertation contributes to the existing body of work by focusing on issues related to parameter ...
Coordination Costs, Organization Structure and Firm Growth.
(2008)
This dissertation views firms as systems of interdependent activities and investigates the role of coordination costs in setting limits to firms’ growth strategies and organization structure. It contains three interrelated ...
Essays on Child Support Enforcement and Tax Evasion.
(2008)
This dissertation explores impacts of state child support laws and earned income tax credits (EITCs) on fathers' contact with their children; their participation in regular and off-the-books work; and whether they substitute ...
Essays in Corporate Finance.
(2008)
This dissertation is comprised of three articles. The first article examines the importance of capital market imperfections by investigating the dependence of a firm's investment on its internal resources. I exploit the ...
Public Policy and Entrepreneurship: The Development of the Competitive Local Telephone Service Industry.
(2008)
In this dissertation, I examine how political environments influence industry structure and entrepreneurial opportunities following deregulation. Though deregulation implies a removal of government control, I propose that ...
Essays on Long-Term Care and Aging.
(2008)
This dissertation contains three empirical papers on important health policy issues. The first paper looks at the effect of changes in levels of Medicare home health care services on the informal care use of disabled, ...
Provision, Interpretation and Effects of Feedback in Reputation Systems.
(2008)
This dissertation addresses three questions that arise out of the voluntary and subjective provision of feedback and its subjective interpretation. The first study is an experimental investigation of a mechanism designed ...
Three Essays on Resources in Education.
(2008)
The first chapter of this dissertation examines how a large increase to state aid to schools in New Jersey affects the expenditures of the affected school districts. The 30 school districts affected by the Abbott policy ...