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Moving Targets: Managing Interinstitutional Relationships in Green Building Design and Construction.
(2013)
The act of building typically results in significant consumption of land and natural resources through both construction and building use, as well as the production of both indoor air pollution and landfill waste. Yet green ...
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 ...
Three Essays on the US Labor Market: Macroeconomic Trends and Cycles.
(2012)
This dissertation consists of three essays on the US labor market. The first two chapters examine the dynamics of the labor market in search models of unemployment. The third chapter concerns the rising nonemployment of ...
Aesthetic and Value Judgment of Neotenous Objects: Cuteness as a Design Factor and its Effects on Product Evaluation.
(2012)
From the perspective of evolutionary psychology, neoteny entails the specific appearance and traits of babies that tend to trigger protective behaviors by adults. Based on Lorenz (1970), five dimensions of neotenic cues ...
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 ...
Essays on the Empirical Study of Migration, Intrahousehold Trade-offs, and Infrastructure Investments
(2012)
Education and infrastructure are two important development strategies in low-income countries. They foster economic growth by improving labor productivity and facilitating market integration. Evaluating them poses a ...
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 ...
The Expansion of Renewable Energy Technologies and Their Impact on Household Energy Portfolios and Sustainable Development: A Study Of Nepal
(2017)
Encouraging households to switch from traditional fuels to cleaner, modern fuels (e.g.; electricity, liquid petroleum gas (LPG), biogas) is a widespread policy focus due to its expected benefits for health and the environment. ...