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This dissertation examines community-level antecedents of firms’ market diversification and product differentiation strategies using the concept of category spanning. Exploiting novel and extensive data on the restaurant ...

This dissertation analyzes how government regulations can affect entrepreneurship and small business performance. The first essay focuses on the effects of occupational licensing regulation, which has increased dramatically ...

As business schools embrace experiential learning, many service units have grown their offerings to better serve students in these programs. An important role needed to support experiential learning programs is to ensure ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mental Health is an increasingly common topic of conversation in America throughout the past decade. This research paper explores the effect that branding has on an individual’s willingness to attend therapy. Our results ...

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 ...