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Three Essays on Market Structure Variation and Labor Market Outcomes.
(2014)
This dissertation consists of three chapters focusing on market structure variations and labor market outcomes in the health care sector. Chapter 1 estimates the labor market outcomes--employment and wages--of two types ...
Essays on the Labor Market Transitions in Taiwan.
(2014)
This dissertation consists of three chapters. The first chapter studies how the expansion in post-secondary education in 1990-2000 affected the university wage premium in Taiwan. We find that the university wage premium ...
Three Essays on Financial Decision-Making of Older Households
(2016)
With the shift from defined-benefit to defined-contribution pension plans, good portfolio management becomes crucial for sustaining financial well-being in retirement. Using the Vanguard Research Initiative (VRI), a novel ...
Toward a Theory of Sharing and Responding to Good and Bad News at Work.
(2014)
In this two paper dissertation, I seek to establish news sharing as an area of inquiry in organizational studies. The quantitative paper represents the first steps toward this goal by focusing on how and why responses to ...
Durable Dominance.
(2014)
I advance an explanation for durable dominance—dominants’ enduring control of vastly disproportionate shares of contested resources in the face of mass entrepreneurial entry and increased competitive parity. I argue that ...
Implementation of Evidence-based Practice Within a Physician-led Quality Improvement Collaborative: A Multimethod Analysis of Facilitators and Barriers to Implementation.
(2015)
In this dissertation, I have reported on a multimethod study of the barriers and facilitators to implementation of imaging appropriateness criteria, an evidence-based practice to improve the use of imaging for prostate ...
Data, Trust, and Transparency in Personalized Advertising.
(2016)
Advertising wields the power to change the way we see and experience the world and how we perceive those around us. Though marketing practices have long been characterized by information asymmetry, with individuals unable ...
Mitigating Risk: Smartphone Notifications, Adaptive Surveying, and Genetics.
(2015)
Modern information technologies have revolutionized how we can study risk taking. I leverage datasets produced by three of these technologies to investigate the mitigation of risk associated with obesity, saving for ...
Three Essays in Applied Health Economics
(2021)
The US healthcare system faces numerous challenges. In this dissertation I study issues of access to care, healthcare costs, and responses to the opioid epidemic. I take an applied economic approach, using causal inference ...
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 ...