This dissertation consists of two separate essays on major choice in higher education. In the first chapter, I investigate how differences in information affect students' major choices over time. Since college has such a ...

This dissertation consists of three essays. In the first essay, ``The Structural Shift in the Cyclicality of the U.S. Labor Income Share: Empirical Evidence'', I document a structural shift in the cyclicality of the labor ...

This paper consists of three essays, with a focus on household behavior and decision making. In the first essay, I consider a two asset lifecycle model with transaction costs and show that allowing individuals to learn ...

This dissertation will address the dynamic interrelationship between multiple macro-economic fundamentals. The second chapter details a solution to the excess volatility puzzle described in the macro-economic labor literature ...

This dissertation consists of three essays. The first essay, "Volume, volatility and Macroeconomic Announcements" studies the relationship between trading intensity and price volatility and how it is affected by investors' ...

Health and education are important determinants of economic success and general wellbeing both at the individual and macro levels. Yet individuals often do not appear to invest in these forms of human capital at ...

This dissertation contains three chapters that investigate the role of asymmetric information in determining market outcomes in insurance and healthcare markets. The first two chapters focus on the U.S. automobile insurance ...

Extremal quantile index is a concept that the quantile index will drift to zero (or one)as the sample size increases. The three chapters of my dissertation consists of threeapplications of this concept in three distinct ...

This dissertation comprises of three essays in law and economics. The first chapter, a joint work with my advisor - Marjorie McElroy, examines the longly debated effect of the liberalized divorce laws in the United States ...

The aim of this dissertation is to examine, model and estimate the importance ofdemand factors that shape the diet quality choices of the U.S. households. In particular,I focus on the low-income households because these ...