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Essays on the Economics of International Migration and Return.
(2016)
International migration and return are important channels through which individuals from migrant-sending countries stand to benefit from the world economy. This dissertation examines questions concerning the economics of ...
An Ethnography of Three Michigan Architecture Firms: The Effect of Organizational Culture on Workplace Client Engagement
(2019)
Design studies researchers often agree on the importance of the first stage of the design process and the prominence of the architect and client relationship within this stage. Yet little seems to be known about the early ...
Getting Acquainted: How Knowing About Colleague's Personal Lives Impacts Workplace Interactions, for Better and Worse
(2017)
In my dissertation, I introduce the concept of personal knowledge, discuss how it is formed, explore how it is used, and examine potential boundary conditions of its effects. In Chapter 1, I motivate the need for this ...
The Value of Bargaining in Online Platform Markets
(2018)
Bargaining is an important pricing mechanism, prevalent in both the online and offline worlds. However, little empirical work on the value of bargaining in markets exists, primarily due to the lack of real-world bargaining ...
Three Essays on Cooperation in a Public Good Experiment
(2016)
At the heart of every environmental dilemma, there are people engaged in the conflict between what is good for the individual and what is good for the group. These dilemmas include public goods – like clean air, biodiversity, ...
Three Essays in Health Economics
(2018)
This dissertation contains three essays that explore how nursing homes respond to public reporting, changes in regulation and payments, as well as heterogeneity across organizational forms. More specifically, I focus on ...
Three Essays on Frictions in Financial Markets
(2019)
In the first chapter, I develop and estimate a novel dynamic model of the secondary market trading of intangible assets in an environment where financial market frictions interfere with firm investment. Intangible asset ...
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 ...