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Essays on Housing and Demography
(2023)
This dissertation is an analysis of policy issues and historical patterns in housing markets and their connections to the demographic attributes of households. Chapter 1 studies Houston's significant reduction of the minimum ...
State and Local Economic Policy in Equilibrium
(2021)
This dissertation studies a subset of state and local economic policy issues and their interactions with federal government policy in the United States, in macroeconomic and general equilibrium models. The first chapter ...
Changes in Spending, Risk Selection, and the Response of Frontline Clinicians: Understanding Performance Mechanisms in the Medicare Shared Savings Program
(2021)
Confronted by an increasingly expensive and fragmented health care system, public and private payers have established a series of reforms designed to lower costs and improve quality. A leading example is the Medicare Shared ...
Essays in Law and Economics
(2023)
Chapter 1: This chapter uses theoretical and empirical methods to understand the most common reason employers report reluctance to hire workers with a criminal record: legal liability generated by the tort of negligent ...
Essays on Health, Human Rights, and Social Development
(2023)
Spanning diverse perspectives, the five chapters of this dissertation relate to health, human rights, and social development. Broadly speaking, the first two chapters center on the supply side of healthcare provision in ...
Incorporating Biodiversity into Food Systems Modeling: Fisheries-Nutrition Linkages in Ghana
(2023)
Food systems in low- and middle-income countries are rapidly transforming due to population growth, urbanization, rising consumer incomes, and changes to built and natural environments. These trends are associated with a ...
Three Essays on the Economics of Charity
(2023)
This dissertation studies how charities' receipts and expenses respond to developments in the communities they serve. Chapter I studies the relationship between political contributions and charities' private donations and ...
Essays on Housing Economics and Family Dynamics
(2023)
This dissertation focuses on two of the biggest kinds of long-term decisions in one's life, on housing and on marriage. In all three chapters I focus on previously unexplored aggregate implications of simple differences ...
The Influence of Price Changes on Enrollment: Research Designs to Examine Price Responsiveness in Graduate and Professional Schools
(2023)
A number of studies have examined the impact of changes in price on students’ enrollment decisions at the undergraduate level, but little is known about the price responsiveness of graduate and professional students. This ...
Financial Capital and Human Capital in American Corporations: How Ownership by Activist Hedge Funds and Index Investors Affects Employee Satisfaction
(2020)
Two major trends in the American capital market affect whether firms adopt a long-term or a short-term orientation. The first trend is the growing concentration of ownership of public companies by index investors, such as ...