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Three Essays on Energy Policy and Investment
(2017)
In three chapters, this dissertation studies firm investment decisions in contexts informative for the design of energy policy. The first chapter studies electricity-intensive manufacturers' decision to buy machinery and ...
Essays on Macroeconomic Policies after the Global Financial Crisis
(2019)
The 2008-2009 global economic and financial crisis and its aftermath forced both the academia and policymakers to rethink macroeconomics and macroeconomic policy. In particular, the crisis brought about intellectual shifts ...
Religion and Social Behaviors: Using Religious Reminders to Promote Honesty and Using Prompt-based Interactions to Reduce Bias Against Religious Minorities
(2022)
Religion is intertwined with social behaviors. While most of the world’s population claims an affiliation with some religion, little research exists on how multiple dimensions of religion and religious reminders impact ...
Improving Worker Performance with Human-Centered Data Science
(2021)
Advances in information technologies not only provide novel tools to support work in the traditional sectors; they also create additional employment opportunities in the modern workforce where work contexts have been largely ...
How do managers evaluate individual contributions to team production? A theory and empirical test
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2022-12)
Research SummaryOrganizations rely on subjective evaluations to reward employees for team-based performance. However, it is unclear how supervisors determine individuals’ contributions to collective output. We theorize ...
Multi-unit ownership and market power: A study of the lodging industry in Texas
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Cambridge University Press, 2022-12)
As franchisees in the retail and service industries become experienced and acquire local market knowledge, they are likely to own multiple franchised units. Given non- (or weak) exclusive clauses in franchising contracts ...
Gender representation and academic achievement among STEM-interested students in college STEM courses
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2022-12)
Substantial gender equity gaps in postsecondary degree completion persist within many science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines, and these disparities have not narrowed during the 21st century. ...
Incapacitating Criminal Corporations
(2019)
If there is any consensus in the fractious debates over corporate punishment, it is this: a corporation cannot be imprisoned, incarcerated, jailed, or otherwise locked up. Whatever fiction the criminal law entertains about ...
Leading instructional improvement in elementary science: State science coordinators’ sense-making about the Next Generation Science Standards
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2022-11)
The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), a reform effort “for states, by states,” advances ambitious ideals for elementary science teaching, but the fate of these ideals will depend in part on the engagement of state ...
Information effects on lay tradeoffs between national regulatory costs and benefits
(Harvard School of Public HealthWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2022-12)
A novel stated-preference “macro-risk” approach introduced to estimate the life-prolonging benefits of proposed environmental, health, and safety regulations may answer questions unasked or wrongly answered by conventional ...