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Essays on Individual and Collective Decision Making
(2023)
This dissertation contains three essays on individual and collective decision making. Understanding and modeling how individuals make choices is at the heart of economics. In chapter I, I empirically estimate the degree ...
Essays on Housing and Demography
(2023)
This dissertation is an analysis of policy issues and historical patterns in housing markets and their connections to the demographic attributes of households. Chapter 1 studies Houston's significant reduction of the minimum ...
Essays on Health, Human Rights, and Social Development
(2023)
Spanning diverse perspectives, the five chapters of this dissertation relate to health, human rights, and social development. Broadly speaking, the first two chapters center on the supply side of healthcare provision in ...
Incorporating Biodiversity into Food Systems Modeling: Fisheries-Nutrition Linkages in Ghana
(2023)
Food systems in low- and middle-income countries are rapidly transforming due to population growth, urbanization, rising consumer incomes, and changes to built and natural environments. These trends are associated with a ...
The Influence of Price Changes on Enrollment: Research Designs to Examine Price Responsiveness in Graduate and Professional Schools
(2023)
A number of studies have examined the impact of changes in price on students’ enrollment decisions at the undergraduate level, but little is known about the price responsiveness of graduate and professional students. This ...