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Breastfeeding in the United States: Economic Analyses of Trends and Policies.
(2016)
Public health organizations expend considerable effort and resources to increase breastfeeding rates and reduce disparities on the basis of the medical literature’s conclusion that “breast is best.” Yet, due to data ...
Being in Relation: Achieving Mutuality in Moments of Play
(2017)
Human connection is an innate human need. More than that, it is a rich source of life satisfaction, the purest expression of our humanity, and only in moments of human connection do we fully come into being. Such moments ...
Essays on the Labor Market, Public Policy, and Economic Opportunity
(2019)
This dissertation focuses on the interaction between public policy and the U.S. labor market, and its consequences for the economic opportunities available to American women and children. I focus on two public policies ...
How You Like Me Now? The Influence of Athlete Behavior on Fan Group Dynamics and Sports Consumption
(2017)
Within sports, membership in a fan base often constitutes an attachment to a team and its various personnel. As part of a presumed ingroup, sports fans will go about evaluating their favorite teams and players based on ...
Three Essays at the Intersection of Theory and Public Finance
(2018)
This dissertation addresses three distinct tax questions. First, we address the identification of deadweight loss from non-salient taxes. Second, we generalize the canonical result that the impact of a tax does not depend ...
Fiscal Policy and the American Nonprofit Sector.
(2014)
American private nonprofits and government both provide large shares of many of the same goods and services, such as education, health care, and human services. This dissertation examines how government and private nonprofits ...
Three Essays in Economics: Recidivism, Economic Decision Making, and Biases in Beliefs
(2017)
My dissertation covers topics in the economics of crime and the interesction between behavioral and development economics. The first chapter provides causal evidence that sentencing low-level offenders in the State of ...
Social Preferences and the Willingness to Pay for Preventative Health Care: Evidence from Field Experiments
(2017)
This dissertation explores behavioral incentives generated by individuals making choices in peer group settings in order to assess whether these incentives can be harnessed towards improving people’s willingness to invest ...
Artificial Intelligence and IT Identity: Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Human-Machine Integration in the Workplace
(2022)
Cognitive computing systems (CCS) are a new generation of automated IT systems that simulate human cognitive capabilities. Cognitive computing reshapes the interaction between humans and machines and challenges the way we ...
Analysis of Spillover Effects in Randomized Experiments
(2018)
This dissertation studies identification, estimation, inference and experimental design for analyzing causal spillover effects in randomized experiments. Chapter II provides a nonparametric framework based on potential ...