Browsing by Subject "labor"
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Agents with Principles: The Control of Labor in the Dutch East India Company, 1700-1796
(American Sociological Review, 2017)Principal-agent problems plagued early modern corporations. The existing literature emphasizes the potential benefits provided by private trade in aligning the interests of company agents to those of their principals. We ... -
An Economic Assessment of Extreme Heat Events on Labor Productivity in the U.S.
(2018-04-27)Extreme Heat Events (EHE) across the U.S. have become more common as climate change continues to progress. There have been numerous studies on the mortality effects of EHEs but relatively little has been done to study the ... -
Cities of Comrades: Urban Disasters and the Formation of the North American Progressive State
(2010)A fire in Salem, Mass., in 1914 and an explosion in Halifax, N.S., in 1917 provide an opportunity to explore working-class institutions and organizations in the United States-Canada borderlands. In a historical moment in ... -
Essays in Corporate Finance
(2012)I study the effect of human capital on firms' leverage decisions in a structural dynamic model. Firms produce using physical capital and labor. They pay a cost per employee they hire, thus investing in human capital. ... -
ESSAYS ON THE ECONOMICS OF IMMIGRATION IN COLOMBIA
(2022)Between 2015 and 2019, approximately 1.8 million Venezuelans fled into neighboring Colombia, increasing Colombia’s population by almost 4%. In this dissertation, I study the effects of this large and unprecedented migration ... -
Global labor loss due to humid heat exposure underestimated for outdoor workers
(Environmental Research Letters, 2022-01-01)Humid heat impacts a large portion of the world's population that works outdoors. Previous studies have quantified humid heat impacts on labor productivity by relying on exposure response functions that are based on uncontrolled ... -
Labor, Civil Rights, and the Struggle for Democracy in Mid-Twentieth Century Texas
(2011)What happens when the dominant binary categories used to describe American race relations--either "black and white," or "Anglo and Mexican"--are examined contemporaneously, not comparatively, but in relation to one another? ... -
Public Childhoods: Street Labor, Family, and the Politics of Progress in Peru
(2012)This dissertation focuses on the experiences of children who work the streets of Lima primarily as jugglers, musicians, and candy vendors. I explore how children's everyday lives are marked not only by the hardships typically ... -
Running to Labor: Ethiopian Women Distance Runners in Networks of Capital
(2022)Perhaps second only to coffee, Ethiopia is best known worldwide for its long-distance runners. Since the 1960s, the country has indeed won countless Olympic medals and major marathons. However, the persisting explanatory ... -
The Righteous and the Profane: Performing a Punk Solidarity in Mexico City
(2013)AbstractMexico City's punk scene has a notorious reputation, based on the supposedly angry, rude, and destructive behavior of its integrants. Certainly, participants in the punk scene value intense affects, aesthetics, ... -
The Work of Being Worked (For): Intimacy, Knowledge, and Emotional Labor in the Works of Henry James
(2018-03)Henry James’s novels operate within a vibrant social economy, as “the working and the worked were in London, as one might explain, the parties to every relation” (The Wings of the Dove 201). James’s later works illustrate ...
