The role of remittances in development and economic growth is not well understood. This is partly because the literatures on the causes and effects of remittances remain separate. We develop a framework that links the ...

This study explores the factors associated with state-level allocations to tobacco-control programs. The primary research question is whether public sentiment regarding tobacco control was a significant factor in the states’ ...

The need for and efficacy of CAFE standards for auto-makers depends largely on whether consumers properly value fuel efficiency in their vehicle purchases. In this paper we use data describing heterogeneous driving behavior ...

<p>This dissertation consists of three essays on asymmetric correlations in financial markets. In the first essay, I have two main contributions. First, I show that dividend growth rates have symmetric correlations. Second, ...

We propose inference procedures for partially identified population features for which the population identification region can be written as a transformation of the Aumann expectation of a properly defined set valued ...

When Stephen Perez and I first began our Monte Carlo studies of the efficacy of general-to-specific search methodologies in 1995, we were keenly aware of our limited ability to capture the tacit knowledge of the skilled ...

The recent large deficits in the US trade balance have led to a rise in protectionist sentiment in the US Congress. In light of the recent literature on tariffs and trade balance, it is important to ask whether the current ...

Asian development in the 1970's is likely to take place under conditions quite different from those typical of the past two decades. These changing conditions will have an important influence on the research focus relating ...

Graph-theoretic methods of causal search based in the ideas of Pearl (2000), Spirtes, Glymour, and Scheines (2000), and others have been applied by a number of researchers to economic data, particularly by Swanson and ...