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Multivariate Functional Regression and Selection
(2020)
With the pervasiveness of sensor data, real-time physiological signals and behavioral data are often collected in many biomedical studies. This thesis is motivated by data collected from a tri-axis accelerometer ActiGraph ...
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 ...
On Nonparametric and Semiparametric Partitioning-Based Methods in Applied Microeconomics
(2019)
This dissertation concerns estimation and inference using partitioning-based least squares estimators in nonparametric and semiparametric models.
Chapter II studies the large sample properties of partitioning-based ...
Unified Price Indices for Spatial Comparisons
(2019)
This thesis proposes a method to measure fine-grained spatial differences in purchasing power. This method exploits the recent availability of computer-generated retail scanner data sets to compensate for the absence of ...
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 ...
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 ...
Three Essays on the Economics of Consumerism in Health Policy
(2019)
Consumerism, the notion of giving people the ability and responsibility to make choices about cost and quality, is an increasingly popular strategy to contain health spending. Yet we lack robust knowledge about how recent ...
Transportation in Transition: Data-Driven Sustainability Assessment of Automated, Electric, and Shared Mobility
(2021)
Emerging technologies in transportation, including vehicle automation, electrification, and shared mobility, are poised to transform the mobility paradigm, transportation markets, and travelers’ behavior in the coming ...
Three Essays in Microeconometrics
(2019)
Traditional econometric methods can perform poorly in applications. The poor performance is usually due to challenges faced by researchers conducting empirical data analysis, yet overlooked by large sample reasonings that ...
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 ...