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Three Essays in Public Finance and Regulation.
(2014)
1. Essay 1: In politically competitive jurisdictions, there can be strong electoral incentives to underfund public pensions in order to keep current taxes low. I examine this hypothesis using panel data for 2,000 municipal ...
Two Essays on Medicaid Dental Care Coverage.
(2014)
My dissertation investigates the role of Medicaid dental insurance for children and adults on provider participation and the use of dental care. My job market paper focuses on the effect of Medicaid dental care coverage ...
Durable Dominance.
(2014)
I advance an explanation for durable dominance—dominants’ enduring control of vastly disproportionate shares of contested resources in the face of mass entrepreneurial entry and increased competitive parity. I argue that ...
The Macroeconomics of Establishment-Level Employment Dynamics.
(2014)
This dissertation comprises four chapters examining the macroeconomics of establishment-level employment dynamics. "Wage Rigidity and Employment Outcomes: Evidence from Administrative Data," examines the relationship between ...
Robust Nonparametric Confidence Intervals for Regression‐Discontinuity Designs
(Blackwell Publishing LtdWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2014-11)
Discipline‐centered post‐secondary science education research: Distinctive targets, challenges and opportunities
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Grune and Stratton, 2014-08)
The Big Squeeze: State of Book Publishing and Academic Libraries
(2014-11-07)
In 2014, the University of Michigan Business School Library (Kresge Business Administration Library) emptied its shelves of books in a project that will forever change library support for the school’s research needs. No ...
The Ethereal Library: Thinking Creatively When You Have No Space To Think
(2014-11-07)
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 ...
Three Essays on International Trade and Institutions.
(2014)
The first essay addresses the effects of trade liberalization on firms' productivity. Firms' responses to trade liberalization are heterogenous: exporters improve their level of technology adoption, whereas nonexporters ...
Essays on Economics of Law, Crime, and Social Capital.
(2014)
Chapter 1 and 2 examines the impact of the Legal Service Program on crime and divorce by using the roll-out of legal service grants to evaluate empirically the effects of the legal services program on reported crime as ...