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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 ...
Avoiding the Buyer's Fallacy: Consumer Perceptions of Products Before Purchase.
(2013)
Consumers are motivated to find the products that will provide the greatest benefit; however, choosing the right product is not an easy task. Consumers must choose between a myriad of products with varying features despite ...
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 on Information Technology and Organizational Form in the Health Care Industry.
(2012)
Employment of physicians by hospitals can confer greater administrative control to hospitals over physicians’ actions and resources and thereby enable efficiency gains, including implementation of enterprise-wide initiatives, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Three Essays on Estimation with Unpriced Amenities.
(2012)
Variation in the quality of job matches is an important determinant of workers' search decisions and the distribution of wages. I develop a structural search model that allows job match quality to depend on unpriced job ...
Three Essays on Labor Market Entry.
(2012)
Recent studies have found a large earnings premium to attending a more selective college, but the mechanisms underlying this premium have received little attention and remain unclear. In the first chapter, I develop a ...