Browsing by Subject "Economics"
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A Study of How Economic Attitudes Are Shaped by Environmental Shocks and Life Experiences
(2016)Social attitudes, attitudes toward financial risk and attitudes toward deferred gratification are thought to influence many important economic decisions over the life-course. In economic theory, these attitudes are key components ... -
A Study of the Impact of a Natural Disaster on Economic Behavior and Human Capital Across the Life Course
(2015)How households and individuals respond to adverse and unanticipated shocks is an important concern for both economists and policy makers. This is especially true in developing countries where poverty, weak infrastructure, ... -
A Theory of Urban-Rural Bias: A Dual Dilemma of Political Survival
(2011)Pro-urban bias in policy is a common phenomenon in many developing countries. Bates (1981) has famously argued the wish to industrialize paired with the political clout of urban residents results in distinctly anti-rural ... -
Administrative Burdens in the US Health Care Sector
(2023)In this dissertation, I investigate the impact of administrative burdens on the US health care sector. Using observational data---particularly medical claims from Medicare----and policy variation in the administrative burdens ... -
Advancing African Development Through Art: Artist Perspectives
(2020)While there is a common understanding that artists find it hard to make a living through their artistic activities, research is silent on how artists view and understand their lived experiences. “Creative wealth”, which ... -
Aggregate Deferred Tax Asset Valuation Allowance and GDP Growth
(2022)This paper examines whether deferred tax asset valuation allowance growth, as a measure of expected future performance, aggregated at the macroeconomy level, conveys information about future GDP growth. Using hand-collected ... -
Air Pollution, Water, and Sanitation: Household Response to Environmental Risk
(2020)Despite the threats to morbidity, mortality, and human capital accumulation posed by environmental risks, investments in environmental health technologies remain low. This is especially evident in low- and middle-income ... -
An Evaluation of the Shrimp Industry in North Carolina: Could policy changes such as an altered harvest schedule increase the profitability of the shrimp fishery?
(2007-08-31)This study seeks to evaluate the ability of the North Carolina (NC) shrimp industry to cope with the impacts of imported shrimp on prices. First, this study provides a review of the literature and relevant background ... -
Applications of Statistical and Economic Analysis in Finance and Health Industry
(2015)This paper intends to present my summary of internship and some academic individual and team projects, including a quantitative and statistical analysis of some important Macro factors and financial models, and a data analysis ... -
Asymmetric Correlations in Financial Markets
(2013)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, ... -
Auctions, Equilibria, and Budgets
(2012)We design algorithms for markets consisting of multiple items, and agents with budget constraints on the maximum amount of money they can afford to spend. This problem can be considered under two broad frameworks. (a) From ... -
Bayesian Hierarchical Models to Address Problems in Neuroscience and Economics
(2017)In the first chapter, motivated by a model used to analyze spike train data, we present a method for learning multiple probability vectors by using information from large samples to improve estimates for smaller samples. ... -
Bayesian Models for Causal Analysis with Many Potentially Weak Instruments
(2015)This paper investigates Bayesian instrumental variable models with many instruments. The number of instrumental variables grows with the sample size and is allowed to be much larger than the sample size. With some sparsity ... -
Beyond the Convent Walls: The Local and Japan-wide Activities of Daihongan’s Nuns in the Early Modern Period (c. 1550–1868)
(2016)This dissertation examines the social and financial activities of Buddhist nuns to demonstrate how and why they deployed Buddhist doctrines, rituals, legends, and material culture to interact with society outside the convent. ... -
Brain Drain or Gain? Skilled Migration and Human Capital Accumulation in the Developing World
(2019)Developing countries have long worried about the prospects of their “best and brightest” moving to the developed world. Some scholars have argued that massive emigration of highly-educated labor deprives these countries ... -
Building a Decision Model to Estimate the Health and Economic Benefits of Targeted Mental Health Interventions to Improve ART Adherence among Young People Living with HIV in Tanzania
(2023)Young people living with HIV (YPLWH) constitute a growing proportion of the global population of people living with HIV but have less access to HIV testing, diagnosis, treatment, and face heightened mental health challenges. ... -
Bungoma County Woman’s Study: A Pilot Randomized Evaluation To Estimate The Impact Of A Screening and Referral Service On Contraceptive Use
(2018)Background: An estimated 225 million women globally have an unmet family planning need, three-quarters of whom live in low and middle-income countries. Addressing this need requires new and innovative approaches, such as ... -
Can a Broader Education Narrow the Gap? Evidence on Non-Academic Features of Schooling
(2016)Empirical studies of education programs and systems, by nature, rely upon use of student outcomes that are measurable. Often, these come in the form of test scores. However, in light of growing evidence about the long-run ... -
CAUSAL INFERENCE FOR HIGH-STAKES DECISIONS
(2023)Causal inference methods are commonly used across domains to aid high-stakes decision-making. The validity of causal studies often relies on strong assumptions that might not be realistic in high-stakes scenarios. Inferences ... -
Childcare Choices and Early Cognitive Development
(2013)This study uses the data from the National Institute for Children Health and Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development to evaluate features of wage and childcare price changes that are associated with positive ...
