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Essays in Social Economics.
(2016)
The central idea in social economics is that an individual's actions are influenced by the choices and characteristics of peers. This occurs because group (network) membership provides information and shapes beliefs (norms). ...
Food Insecurity in Vulnerable Populations: Coping with Food Price Shocks in Afghanistan
(Oxford University PressWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2014-04)
Based on data from Afghanistan collected prior to and during the 2007‐2008 food price crisis, this paper illustrates that caloric intake is an ineffectual indicator for monitoring the onset of food insecurity. Unconditional ...
Voluntary Disclosure and Liquidity: Evidence from Index Funds.
(2015)
Index funds trade for nonstrategic reasons because their clients’ personal liquidity needs primarily drive fund flows. These funds are thus unambiguously more likely than strategic traders to prefer high stock liquidity, ...
Pro Sports League Antitrust ‘Beliefs’: Applied Theory and the Rule of Reason
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2017-07)
On the Provision of Public Goods on Networks: Incentives, Exit Equilibrium, and Applications to Cyber .
(2016)
Attempts to improve the state of cyber-security have been on the rise over the past years. The importance of incentivizing better security decisions by users in the current landscape is two-fold: it not only helps users ...
The Impact Of Exporting And Foreign Direct Investment On Product Innovation: Evidence From Chinese Manufacturers
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 2017-10)
Examining student work for evidence of teacher uptake of educative curriculum materials
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2015-08)
The purpose of this study was to identify evidence in student work of teachers' uptake of educative features in educative curriculum materials. These are features in curriculum materials designed with the specific intent ...
Intergenerational transmission of education in China: New evidence from the Chinese Cultural Revolution
(The Danish National Centre for Social ResearchWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2019-02)
This paper estimates the effect of parental education on children’s education by using instruments generated by the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and further explores the mechanisms of this causal relationship. Several ...
Tutorial: Parallel Computing of Simulation Models for Risk Analysis
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.McGraw‐Hill, 2016-10)
Three Essays on Market Structure Variation and Labor Market Outcomes.
(2014)
This dissertation consists of three chapters focusing on market structure variations and labor market outcomes in the health care sector. Chapter 1 estimates the labor market outcomes--employment and wages--of two types ...