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Essays on the economics of higher education: Investigating college major choice
(2017)
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 ...
Essays on Macroeconomics and Labor Markets
(2018)
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 ...
Essays in Macroeconomics
(2018)
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 ...
Essays in Macroeconomics
(2017)
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 ...
Essays on Financial Econometrics
(2018)
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' ...
Essays on Human Capital in Bangladesh
(2019)
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 ...
Essays on the Economics of Insurance and Healthcare Markets
(2017)
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 ...
Three Essays on Extremal Quantiles
(2016)
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 ...
Essays in Law and Economics
(2009)
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 ...
Essays in Food Retail Demand
(2017)
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 ...