This study examines the effects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansion on employment and wages in the U.S. meat processing industry from 2005 to 2022. The an[...]

This dissertation examines how family structure, labor market shocks, and historical legacies shape individual health behaviors and outcomes. In chapter 1, I study the me[...]

This dissertation examines how youth labor supply affects various adolescent outcomes. Using datafrom the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, I inv[...]

How do economies achieve modern structural transformation and economic development in the face of technological, environmental, and regulatory shocks? This dissertation a[...]

Employee well-being is an important component of overall well-being. Employees who are fulfilled by their work tend to have higher levels of well-being. Yet, many employe[...]

This dissertation leverages high resolution data from Brazil to examine how labor markets adapt to major shocks and structural features. It is organized into three chapt[...]

This dissertation considers how housing wealth affects household behavior. Three essays focus on the importance of credit constraints and their role in explaining the spi[...]

This study on the Chinese economy uses stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) methods to estimate industry level productivity from 1980 to 2010. Results suggest that governm[...]

Upon graduation from high school a student must ask many important questions: Should I enroll in college? What major should I choose? How will I finance my degree? I expl[...]

Understanding how the nominal term structure of interest rates responds to monetary policy is crucial in trying to incorporate such ideas into fundamental equilibrium mod[...]

The objective of this thesis is to evaluate the relative significance of macroeconomic fundamentals in predicting the performance of commercial banks in the United States[...]

This dissertation considers topics in the intersection of law and economics and financial economics. The common theme running through each chapter is the problem of confl[...]

This paper aims to explore a phenomenon that has been noticed in the foreign exchange market. Using intraday data from Bloomberg's BFIX index, we are able to show that cu[...]

This thesis examines the difference in the competition policy of the European Union and the United States. While the United States bases their policy solely on the harm t[...]

The current work consists of three empirical analyzes on access to drinking water in India. The first study examines the effect that access to safe water and sanitation h[...]

A number of economies at the end of the 20th century were characterized by boom-bust cycles in their stock markets. In most cases, the dramatic growth in stock prices dur[...]

While on one hand many studies have determined that consumers preferences for fair economic payoffs may be conditional, few have attempted to examine what contexts are su[...]

The process of statehood, as outlined by the General Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Northwest Ordinance, required western territories to set aside substantial stocks of l[...]

In India, a strong son preference and offspring sex selection undermines girls survival in utero and early childhood. Though motivated by cultural factors, the bias again[...]

This study analyzes how timber sale characteristics influence pine sawtimber prices in non-industrial private forests. Data were collected from Timber Mart-South for a 1[...]

The thesis includes the examination of a three-country model to demonstrate the effects of regionalism and investment on multilateral free trade, and the change in the go[...]

Each day 17 people die while waiting for an organ, over 6,000 a year. These tragic deathsare needless given that thousands more organs housed in tcheept caabldaevers of m[...]

Preferential Trade Agreements are a major aspect of international trade and are the focus of many discussions of current policy and trade discussions. The common belief [...]

American higher education faces challenges with affordability given the recent volatility of endowments in the stock market and declining state subsidies. Given these ci[...]

This paper develops a model that describes the incentive structure of cable and internet providers acting as geographic monopolists. The model demonstrates that for servi[...]