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Essays in the Economics of Education
(2021)
This dissertation studies the reasons for and consequences of different choices in human capital investment. The theme connecting the three essays is a desire to understand reasons for inequality in educational choices and ...
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, ...
Black Professionalism: Perception and Metalinguistic Assessment of Black American Speakers' Sociolinguistic Labor
(2022)
Metalinguistic awareness encompasses what a language user knows about the relation of social factors (such as age, gender, or race) to linguistic usage, distribution, meaning, or context of occurrence variance. Such embodied ...
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 ...
Essays on Generational Economic Links Between Childhood and Adulthood
(2021)
My dissertation examines the economic links between people's experiences in early and later-life. It offers new empirical evidence on the effect of income in infancy on later-life outcomes, and investigates the performance ...
Essays on the Economics of Human Capital
(2020)
An extensive literature documents the instrumental role of early childhood in improving individuals' life chances. This dissertation consists of three connected chapters that study the effects of early childhood circumstances ...
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 ...