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Fear of terror and increased job burnout over time: Examining the mediating role of insomnia and the moderating role of work support
(American Psychiatric AssociationWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2015-02)
Informal Care and Caregiver's Health
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 2015-02)
This study aims to measure the causal effect of informal caregiving on the health and health care use of women who are caregivers, using instrumental variables. We use data from South Korea, where daughters and daughters‐in‐law ...
Implementation of Evidence-based Practice Within a Physician-led Quality Improvement Collaborative: A Multimethod Analysis of Facilitators and Barriers to Implementation.
(2015)
In this dissertation, I have reported on a multimethod study of the barriers and facilitators to implementation of imaging appropriateness criteria, an evidence-based practice to improve the use of imaging for prostate ...
Practice Patterns among Entrants and Incumbents in the Home Health Market after the Prospective Payment System was Implemented
(ElsevierWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2015-03)
Home health care expenditures were the fastest growing part of Medicare from 2001–2009, despite the implementation of prospective payment. Prior research has shown that home health agencies adopted two specific strategies ...
Three Essays in Education Finance and Consumer Credit.
(2015)
Three Essays in Education Finance and Consumer Credit
by
Jonathan Hershaff
Chapter 1: “Moral Hazard and Lending: Evidence from the Federal Student Loan Market”
For fifteen years, there were two programs for originating ...
Mitigating Risk: Smartphone Notifications, Adaptive Surveying, and Genetics.
(2015)
Modern information technologies have revolutionized how we can study risk taking. I leverage datasets produced by three of these technologies to investigate the mitigation of risk associated with obesity, saving for ...
Economics as an Experimental Science: Using Field Experiments to Test Models of Economic Behavior
(2015)
Economics is limited by the fact that it is not an experimental science: our ability to experimentally test models of economic behavior is constrained by logistics and ethics. However, this view has been reshaped by the ...
Beyond Myth and Ceremony?: An Examination of Corporate Responses to Climate Change.
(2015)
The focus of this dissertation is on corporate responses to climate change. Using three empirical studies, I examine the gap in corporate words and actions when it comes to addressing climate change through three empirical ...
Essays on Taxes and Donations.
(2015)
This dissertation concerns donation and tax issues, significant for current policy making. Chapter I considers cases where fundraisers reflect donors’ preferences for the characteristics of public good. Relying solely on ...