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“No One Gets Left Behind:” Managing Library Human Resources During Dramatic Shifts in Academic Libraries
(2015-05-18)
One of the greatest challenges facing academic libraries is maintaining necessary space for collections and services. Academic administrators are forced to balance the need for space to support new and expanded programs, ...
Three Field Experiments in Development Economics.
(2014)
In the first chapter of this dissertation, I study the introduction of a bonus scheme with lottery payoffs at a large agricultural firm in Malawi. The “lottery bonus” was motivated by evidence from lab studies and by real ...
Firms, Destinations, and Aggregate Fluctuations
(Blackwell Publishing LtdWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2014-07)
That Others May Learn: Three Views on Vicarious Learning in Organizations.
(2015)
Vicarious learning, the process by which an individual learns from another’s experience, has long been recognized as a source of development and performance improvement in organizations, at both individual and collective ...
Three Essays in Health and Development.
(2015)
The quality of healthcare is low in developing countries. In this dissertation, I examine two different proposals to improve healthcare quality: improve customer information regarding healthcare choices, or enroll individuals ...
Essays in International Economics.
(2016)
This dissertation analyzes how trade openness affects a country’s set of policy instruments in times of economic crises. Exploiting variations across Estonian firms trading with different mar- kets, the first chapter shows ...
The Influence of Markets on the Division of Labor.
(2015)
Understanding the workings of the division of labor is a critical research goal for economists and strategy scholars alike. For economists, the division of labor is a distinguishing feature of capitalism and a primary ...
Mueller, Willard F., A Primer on Monopoly and Competition, New York, Random House, 1970, xii + 203 pp. ($5.95 cloth, $2.50 paper)
(Oxford University PressWiley Periodicals, Inc., 1971-05)
Agricultural Development: The Key Link in China’s Four Modernizations Program
(Oxford University PressWiley Periodicals, Inc., 1980-05)