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Essays on the Economic Analysis of Discrimination, Law Enforcement, and Smoking.
(2009)
This dissertation examines issues related to the efficiency and effectiveness of government policies to provide public goods. In the first essay, I develop an empirical test for whether police officers discriminate on ...
Three Essays on Field and Lab-in-the-Field Experiments in Economics.
(2011)
The first chapter contributes to the debate about culture as potential determinant
of economic growth by investigating the prevalence of six widely discussed norms of
distributive justice in poor, rural communities of ...
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 ...
Risk Tolerance and Asset Allocation.
(2007)
Economic theory assigns a central role to risk preference in asset
allocation. This dissertation includes three papers that
investigate this relationship empirically. The first paper uses
panel data on hypothetical ...
The Effect of Organizational Form on Firm Performance.
(2009)
While much empirical literature studies agency conflict and firm performance within the corporate form of legal organization, this dissertation studies agency conflict and firm performance across two organizational forms, ...
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 ...
Essays on Housing Wealth and Consumer Behavior.
(2009)
This dissertation considers how housing wealth impacts household behavior. The
essays pay close attention to the borrowing collateral role of housing wealth, and
address how changing house prices affect household spending. ...
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, ...