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Showing 1 to 20 of 9626 for “"Economics"”.
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Essays in Public Economics and Health Economics
… we examine two key empirical questions in public economics by exploiting the 2009 Polish tax reforms. First, we estimate the degree of substitution between employment and self-employment tax bases – on the extensive margin. In particular, we quantify the impact of changes in the differential in …
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Essays in Applied Economics Linking Policy, Obesity, and Health Economics
Chapter 1: Improved Health Insurance Coverage Rates for Adults with Low-Income and Chronic Disease Conditions: Evidence from 2014 Medicaid Expansion. This study examined health insurance coverage rates among low-income adults with chronic disease conditions before and after Medicaid expansion under …
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Economics Meets Mortality
This dissertation investigates the intersections between economic conditions and mortality through three empirical chapters, each analysing a distinct facet of how economic instability impacts death outcomes. The first chapter, "The Silent Killer: The Impact of Unemployment on Mortality", leverages …
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Essays in economics
The first chapter analyzes incentives and quality in hospitals with physician-investors. Proponents of physician ownership argue that it improves care; opponents claim that physician-investors "cherry-pick" profitable patients. This paper uses new data on physician-owned hospitals to estimate a …
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Essays in economics
In Chapter 1, we estimate equilibrium dollar wages for 15 transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the former Soviet Union. Equilibrium dollar wages are interpreted as full employment wages consistent with a country's physical and human capital endowment, and estimated by …
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Essays in economics
In the first chapter, I explore the role of coordination problems and self-fulfilling beliefs as drivers of sovereign default risk. I employ global-game techniques to induce a unique equilibrium. Along the unique equilibrium, I show how the equilibrium default risk can be decomposed in a …
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Two Essays in Education Economics and One Essay in International Economics
The dissertation comprises of two chapters that use applied econometric techniques to analyze policy related questions that have implications for educational outcomes and one chapter that assesses factors that influence foreign direct investment inflows. In the first chapter I study the impact of …
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A comparative study of home economics and non-home economics girls
Clothing is an important factor in the life of the high school girl and with the changing times it seems to become increasingly more so. Living as adolescent girls do today, there is a greater tendency for them to be judged by the clothing they wear.
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Essays on Health Economics
This thesis consists of three chapters on health economics. The first chapter attempts to offer evidence that consumers learn about the characteristics of their health insurance plans, using data from the RAND Health Insurance Experiment. A participation incentive payment was offered by the …
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Essays in Public Economics
The first chapter sheds new light on the desirability of the minimum wage in the presence of optimal income taxation. Using a search-and-matching framework, I derive a novel condition that links the desirability of the minimum wage to three sufficient statistics: (1) the macro labor force …
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ESSAYS IN HEALTH ECONOMICS
The dissertation comprises three chapters that use applied econometric techniques to answer policy-related questions, particularly those that have implications for behavioral health. In the first and second chapters, I study the unintended consequences of public policies on behavioral health …
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Essays in Financial Economics
This dissertation consists of three independent essays on the understanding of investor behavior and financial markets. Chapter 1 (co-authored with Zhong Xu and Chuanwei Zou), “Trading Relationships in the Chinese Repo Market,” studies relationship formation in the Chinese repo market and its …
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Economics of military outsourcing
This thesis is concerned with outsourcing the production of defence and military activities to private providers. Theoretical approaches to the issue are reviewed and found to make insufficiently specific predictions to be useful in assessing the scope for outsourcing. Instead four empirical …
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Essays In Health Economics
… dissertation consists of three essays in health economics. In the first essay, I use the matched data set constructed from the Consumer Expenditure Survey and the Survey of Consumer Finances for period 1989-2010 to investigate the impacts of housing and financial wealth on healthcare spending. …
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Essays in Information Economics
This thesis presents three essays in information economics. In the first essay "Leveraging Benchmarks via Information Design'', I study optimal information disclosure in settings with strategic complementarities. Agents decide whether to act or not, and the designer prefers a higher aggregate …
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