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Three Essays on the Economics of Changing Behavior With Costly Policy Instruments.
(2015)
Attempts to influence individual behavior with public policy are numerous and diverse. The analysis of Pigouvian taxation famously proves that each behavior to be controlled can be analyzed and the optimal policy determined ...
Selected Problems for High-Dimensional Data - Quantile and Errors-in-Variables Regressions.
(2016)
This dissertation addresses two problems. First, we study joint quantile regression at multiple quantile levels with high dimensional covariates. Variable selection performed at individual quantile levels may lack stability ...
Outsourced Congress: How Congress Relies on Outside Organizational Policy Information
(2020)
In recent decades, in-house policy experience and expertise within Congress has fallen as members of Congress have shifted resources towards constituent-casework, communications and leadership functions and away from ...
The Transformation of American Philanthropy: From Public Trust to Private Foundation, 1785-1917
(2017)
This dissertation examines the early history of philanthropic enterprise in the United States. I use the legal and administrative records of nineteenth-century philanthropic foundations, as well as the popular debates they ...
Essays in Law and Economics
(2023)
Chapter 1: This chapter uses theoretical and empirical methods to understand the most common reason employers report reluctance to hire workers with a criminal record: legal liability generated by the tort of negligent ...
Essays on International Worker Mobility
(2021)
In this dissertation, I investigate various aspects of international labor migration in different parts of the world.
In the first chapter, I examine how migrants in the United Kingdom adjust their labor supply in response ...
Examining the Critical Role of Social Capital in Entrepreneurship: A Qualitative Study of Emerging Nonprofit Organizations.
(2016)
This qualitative study examines how individual nonprofit organizations (“NPOs”) emerge. I build on the limited empirical research by studying eight emerging NPOs in a single New Jersey county using forty qualitative ...
Essays in Health Economics
(2022)
This dissertation investigates whether healthcare decisions and health behaviors are affected by institutions and incentives, focusing on the legal system (Chapter 1), health insurance coverage (Chapter 2), and soda taxes ...
The Political Economy of Inefficient Trade Policy
(2018)
While political scientists have often noted that trade protection is an inefficient way of redistributing income between parties, given that it destroys value relative to other redistributive mechanisms (such as domestic ...