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Predicting organizational identification at the CEO level
(John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2015-08)
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 ...
Examining student work for evidence of teacher uptake of educative curriculum materials
(Wiley Periodicals, Inc.Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2015-08)
The purpose of this study was to identify evidence in student work of teachers' uptake of educative features in educative curriculum materials. These are features in curriculum materials designed with the specific intent ...
Essays in Identity and Urban Economics.
(2015)
This dissertation explores aspects of identity choice and change in an economic context, and how choice of location can help predict “quality of life”.
The first chapter studies the malleability of race for those that are ...
Barriers to and Incentives for Health Behaviors among African Women.
(2015)
This dissertation looks at health behaviors of African women and the way those behaviors are affected by information, incentives, peers, and own past experiences.
This first chapter causally evaluates the relative ...
The Role of Emotion, Tradeoff Recall, and Self-Regulation in Pre-Decisional Processing.
(2015)
Three chapters demonstrate previously unexplored contextual and emotional factors that critically and systematically affect the way in which people construct value and generate choice options in the pre-decision phase of ...
Industry and Firm Dynamics in Early Twentieth-Century America.
(2015)
This dissertation explores industry and firm dynamics in early twentieth-century America. Using newly digitized micro data and employing standard analytical techniques, I investigate the determinants of establishment entry, ...
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 ...
Voluntary Involuntary Disclosure.
(2015)
Prior examination of financial disclosures associates increasing linguistic complexity with poor firm performance, but cannot differentiate between competing signaling and managerial obfuscation hypotheses. In order to ...