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Online Education in Community Colleges: Access, School Success, and Labor-Market Outcomes
(2014)
Chapter 1 provides the first evidence on the effect of online education on labor-market outcomes. I employ an individual-fixed-effects estimation strategy using data on over 100,000 community-college enrollees and show ...
Essays on Financial Contracting and Asymmetric Information.
(2014)
This dissertation comprises three essays on financial contracting and intermediation under information asymmetry. They examine both some of the asymmetric information problems that contracts can mitigate as well as some ...
Liquidation In Limit Order Books With Controlled Intensity
(Systems & Control: Foundations & Applications. Boston, MA: BirkhäuserWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2014-10)
Essays in International Trade and Financial Development.
(2014)
In the first chapter, I explore the effect of intellectual property rights (IPRs) on the composition of international trade. The model allows a new channel by which IPRs may affect welfare such that cross-country incentives ...
Creating The Ethereal Library: Thinking Creatively When You Have No Space To Think.
(2014-10-15)
Today’s library operates in two distinct spaces. First, there is the physical space, where we provide our community a place to work, where we provide access to print materials, and where we can provide a place to provide ...
Dividend (Vol. 45, No. 1, Spring 2014)
(Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, 2014)
Food Insecurity in Vulnerable Populations: Coping with Food Price Shocks in Afghanistan
(Oxford University PressWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2014-04)
Based on data from Afghanistan collected prior to and during the 2007‐2008 food price crisis, this paper illustrates that caloric intake is an ineffectual indicator for monitoring the onset of food insecurity. Unconditional ...
Three Essays on Market Structure Variation and Labor Market Outcomes.
(2014)
This dissertation consists of three chapters focusing on market structure variations and labor market outcomes in the health care sector. Chapter 1 estimates the labor market outcomes--employment and wages--of two types ...
Three Field Experiments in Development Economics.
(2014)
In the first chapter of this dissertation, I study the introduction of a bonus scheme with lottery payoffs at a large agricultural firm in Malawi. The “lottery bonus” was motivated by evidence from lab studies and by real ...