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Three Essays on the Effectiveness of Voluntary Forest Certification.
(2015)
In Central Africa, finite contracts, weak local forest law, and poor monitoring erode incentives for firms to manage forests responsibly. In response, voluntary, independent certification of forest management practices ...
Online Education in Community Colleges: Access, School Success, and Labor-Market Outcomes
(2014)
Chapter 1 provides the first evidence on the effect of online education on labor-market outcomes. I employ an individual-fixed-effects estimation strategy using data on over 100,000 community-college enrollees and show ...
Predicting organizational identification at the CEO level
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015-08)
An econometric method for estimating population parameters from non‐random samples: An application to clinical case finding
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Centre for Tuberculosis, 2017-09)
The problem of sample selection complicates the process of drawing inference about populations. Selective sampling arises in many real world situations when agents such as doctors and customs officials search for targets ...
Survey Measures Of Family Decision Processes For Econometric Analysis Of Schooling Decisions
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc., 2018-01)
In this article, we consider the collection of novel subjective data on family processes of schooling decisions. In particular, we review recent progress on survey measurement of expectations, information, and locus of ...
The Intergenerational Transmission of Automobile Brand Preferences
(North Holland Press, New YorkWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2015-12)
When Finance Meets Trade: Three Essays in International Economics.
(2016)
This dissertation examines international capital mobility, focusing on equity and debt markets. I not only study the determinants and patterns observed in capital markets, but also investigate how capital flows affect and ...
Three Essays in Preventive Health Economics.
(2015)
This dissertation examines the oftentimes complicated nature of preventive care utilization decisions to help inform preventive health policy. The first paper examines how patient experiences with two seemingly disparate ...
Learning and Beliefs in Non-Centralized Markets.
(2015)
This dissertation uses microeconomic theory to examine learning and beliefs in markets that are not centralized, in order to refine our knowledge of how information asymmetries affect market outcomes. I approach problems ...
First mover or higher quality? Optimal product strategy in markets with positive feedbacks
(Simon and SchusterWiley Periodicals, Inc., 2018-03)
Conventional wisdom holds that in markets with positive feedbacks being first to market can matter more than product quality. In this paper, we test that intuition within a generalized Pólya urn model. We find that if we ...