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Essays on International Worker Mobility
(2021)
In this dissertation, I investigate various aspects of international labor migration in different parts of the world.
In the first chapter, I examine how migrants in the United Kingdom adjust their labor supply in response ...
Essays in Empirical Industrial Organization
(2020)
This dissertation studies competition in the pharmaceutical and airline industries, focusing on two types of firm conduct: advertising and pricing. In the following chapters, I apply econometric models to novel datasets ...
Essays in the Economics of Education
(2021)
This dissertation studies the reasons for and consequences of different choices in human capital investment. The theme connecting the three essays is a desire to understand reasons for inequality in educational choices and ...
Essays on Cryptocurrency
(2023)
This dissertation consists of three essays. The first essay provides background on blockchain, cryptocurrency, and venture capital. It will explain the evolution of token distribution models, regulatory concerns, and the ...
Black Professionalism: Perception and Metalinguistic Assessment of Black American Speakers' Sociolinguistic Labor
(2022)
Metalinguistic awareness encompasses what a language user knows about the relation of social factors (such as age, gender, or race) to linguistic usage, distribution, meaning, or context of occurrence variance. Such embodied ...
Principles vs. Profits: Is a Fairness or Business Rationale for Workplace Diversity Most Effective at Promoting Diversity?
(2021)
In today’s global world, organizations are increasingly committed to diversity. Yet, diversity in the workplace is a controversial topic that is often met with opposition. As such, organizations regularly attempt to justify ...
Behavioral Market Design for Social Good
(2021)
Market design studies allocation rules of marketplaces, institutions, and economic environments. In addition to solving the equilibrium solution for rational agents in strategic environments, real-world market design ...
Essays on Generational Economic Links Between Childhood and Adulthood
(2021)
My dissertation examines the economic links between people's experiences in early and later-life. It offers new empirical evidence on the effect of income in infancy on later-life outcomes, and investigates the performance ...
Essays on the Economics of Human Capital
(2020)
An extensive literature documents the instrumental role of early childhood in improving individuals' life chances. This dissertation consists of three connected chapters that study the effects of early childhood circumstances ...
Rural Transformation in the 21st Century: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and High-Tech Economies in Michigan's Keweenaw Peninsula
(2020)
How do rural regions reframe and reinvent themselves through contemporary modes of high-tech innovation and entrepreneurship? How do pushes for rural development prepare the rural to be incorporated into technological ...