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Essays on the Economics of Land Use and Adaptation to Climate Change.
(2016)
Spatial patterns of land use can be explained by traditional concepts in the economic theory of agglomeration, such as natural advantages (climate) and input-output linkages.
Chapter 1 uses a long-differences methodology ...
Labor Market Efficiency and Team Transactions in Major League Baseball
(2022)
This dissertation is comprised of three separate papers related to the player labor market and team decision making process in Major League Baseball (MLB).
The first paper focuses on the MLB labor market after the ...
Data-Driven Optimization in Revenue Management: Pricing, Assortment Planning, and Demand Learning
(2020)
This dissertation studies several problems in revenue management involving dynamic pricing, assortment selection, and their joint optimization, through demand learning. The setting in these problems is that customers’ ...
Three Enquiries Concerning Hospital-Physician Vertical Integration
(2020)
Hospitals and physicians in the United States increasingly work together under common ownership. Over the past decade, physicians have gravitated toward employment at hospital-owned facilities and hospitals have acquired ...
Essays in Public Finance and Taxation
(2021)
This dissertation uses administrative tax data to study behavioral responses to taxation and tax enforcement. Chapter I focuses on the two tax penalties associated with Individual Retirement Accounts (IRAs). Chapter II ...
Networked Miscommunication: The Relationship Between Communication Networks, Misunderstandings, and Organizational Performance
(2020)
In this dissertation, I introduce and define the concept of networked miscommunication – unintentional, aggregated effects of communication practices throughout an organization – and demonstrate its deleterious impacts on ...
What is a Labor Market? Classifying Workers and Jobs Using Network Theory
(2022)
This dissertation combines economic theory and network theory to develop a new methodology for identifying latent worker and job heterogeneity from the network of worker-job matches in linked employer-employee data sets. ...
Religion and Social Behaviors: Using Religious Reminders to Promote Honesty and Using Prompt-based Interactions to Reduce Bias Against Religious Minorities
(2022)
Religion is intertwined with social behaviors. While most of the world’s population claims an affiliation with some religion, little research exists on how multiple dimensions of religion and religious reminders impact ...
Improving Worker Performance with Human-Centered Data Science
(2021)
Advances in information technologies not only provide novel tools to support work in the traditional sectors; they also create additional employment opportunities in the modern workforce where work contexts have been largely ...
How do managers evaluate individual contributions to team production? A theory and empirical test
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2022-12)
Research SummaryOrganizations rely on subjective evaluations to reward employees for team-based performance. However, it is unclear how supervisors determine individuals’ contributions to collective output. We theorize ...