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Essays on Knowledge Worker Productivity
(2023)
Knowledge workers operate in relatively complex settings, where they must often use their
judgment and learning capabilities to complete knowledge-intensive tasks. This makes them
less suited for the productivity analysis ...
Essays on Housing and Demography
(2023)
This dissertation is an analysis of policy issues and historical patterns in housing markets and their connections to the demographic attributes of households. Chapter 1 studies Houston's significant reduction of the minimum ...
Developing New Ventures and Markets for Social Innovations
(2023)
“Doing good while doing well” has gained significant attention among management and strategy scholars. However, social ventures and markets that provide social innovations in developing countries face challenges in achieving ...
Essays in Law and Economics
(2023)
Chapter 1: This chapter uses theoretical and empirical methods to understand the most common reason employers report reluctance to hire workers with a criminal record: legal liability generated by the tort of negligent ...
The Effects of Place on Economic Inequality
(2023)
This dissertation examines the relationship between local labor and housing market disparities and inter-generational wealth inequality in the United States. It consists of papers that collectively contribute to our ...
Essays on Health, Human Rights, and Social Development
(2023)
Spanning diverse perspectives, the five chapters of this dissertation relate to health, human rights, and social development. Broadly speaking, the first two chapters center on the supply side of healthcare provision in ...
Incorporating Biodiversity into Food Systems Modeling: Fisheries-Nutrition Linkages in Ghana
(2023)
Food systems in low- and middle-income countries are rapidly transforming due to population growth, urbanization, rising consumer incomes, and changes to built and natural environments. These trends are associated with a ...
Essays in Financial Economics
(2023)
This dissertation comprises three essays in financial economics. The first essay uses a general equilibrium model to explain the cash flow risk and the dynamics of the equity term structure. I propose a novel explanation ...
Three Essays on the Economics of Charity
(2023)
This dissertation studies how charities' receipts and expenses respond to developments in the communities they serve. Chapter I studies the relationship between political contributions and charities' private donations and ...
Convention-Affirming Equilibrium
(2023)
I introduce the concept of convention-affirming equilibrium (CAE) and study its implications in a number of settings. A convention-affirming equilibrium represents a stationary outcome in a population of agents who do not ...