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Kernel‐Based Semiparametric Estimators: Small Bandwidth Asymptotics and Bootstrap Consistency
(Blackwell Publishing LtdWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2018-05)
Three Essays on Covenants Not to Compete.
(2014)
Covenants not to compete are contracts between an employer and an employee that prohibit the employee from joining a competing firm for a fixed amount of time after separating from the employer. The three articles contained ...
Essays on the Labor Market Transitions in Taiwan.
(2014)
This dissertation consists of three chapters. The first chapter studies how the expansion in post-secondary education in 1990-2000 affected the university wage premium in Taiwan. We find that the university wage premium ...
Essays on the Revenue Act of 1924
(2014)
This dissertation examines the Revenue Act of 1924, one of the only laws in US history to allow for publicity of individual income tax information. Chapter two places the Revenue Act of 1924 in its historical context. I ...
Essays in Identity and Urban Economics.
(2015)
This dissertation explores aspects of identity choice and change in an economic context, and how choice of location can help predict “quality of life”.
The first chapter studies the malleability of race for those that are ...
The Taxpayer Relief Act Of 1997 And Homeownership: Is Smaller Now Better?
(Blackwell Publishing LtdWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2014-04)
Survey Measurement of Income Tax Rates.
(2014)
Despite widespread use of tax rate variables in both micro and macro-economic research, measurement of income tax rates has largely been ignored. When tax returns are unavailable, income variables are used to compute tax ...