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A Study of Skills, Problem Solving, and Collaboration Networks.
(2010)
Problem solving plays an important role in many contexts, including scientific innovation and economic production. Individual problem solvers work together, combining their skills to innovate and solve problems that none ...
Accounting for CO2: The Enactment and Effects of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.
(2013)
Atmospheric concentrations of CO2 continue to rise, and the electrical industry is one of the largest sources of emissions. In the United States it has been difficult to enact CO2 policies for the electrical sector. A key ...
Enabling Shared Leadership in Hierarchical Groups.
(2013)
Despite the long-recognized importance of informal influence processes in organizations, leadership researchers have traditionally assumed that the designated managers of groups fulfill all of the groups’ leadership ...
New Perspectives on Regression Adjustment in Causal Inference, with Applications to Educational Program Evaluation.
(2013)
Causal inference from observational data—that is, data that did not come from an experiment—is
notoriously difficult: because the probability distribution of the treatment variable Z is unknown,measured or unmeasured variables ...
Essays on Government Policy and Macroeconomics.
(2012)
This dissertation consists of two chapters on the effect of government policy and macroeconomics. Chapter 1 analyzes two aspects of post 1980 United States regulatory regime for commercial banks. Using FDIC historical and ...
Three Essays on the US Labor Market: Macroeconomic Trends and Cycles.
(2012)
This dissertation consists of three essays on the US labor market. The first two chapters examine the dynamics of the labor market in search models of unemployment. The third chapter concerns the rising nonemployment of ...
Essays on the Empirical Study of Migration, Intrahousehold Trade-offs, and Infrastructure Investments
(2012)
Education and infrastructure are two important development strategies in low-income countries. They foster economic growth by improving labor productivity and facilitating market integration. Evaluating them poses a ...
Essays on Information Technology and Organizational Form in the Health Care Industry.
(2012)
Employment of physicians by hospitals can confer greater administrative control to hospitals over physicians’ actions and resources and thereby enable efficiency gains, including implementation of enterprise-wide initiatives, ...
Three Essays in Applied Microeconomic Theory.
(2011)
This dissertation consists of three papers in applied microeconomic theory. "Criminal Registries, Community Notification, and Optimal Avoidance" studies the effect of community notification of criminal registries on ...
In Pursuit of Revenue and Prestige: the Adoption and Production of Master's Degrees by U.S. Colleges and Universities.
(2011)
I propose a research program on the pursuit of enrollments from desired student populations. Non-prestigious institutions grow enrollments because excess enrollment capacity undermines organizational survival. Prestigious ...