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(2014-06-02)This dissertation analyzes the effects of three public policies using quasi-experimental methods. These policies include U.S. cell phone bans that prevent drivers from using cell phones while driving, U.S. castle doctrine ...
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(2013-04-22)My dissertation is composed of three sections. The first section examines the effect of monetary incentives on student performance in public education in Texas. I address how to deal with non-random samples caused by ...
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(2022-07-26)This dissertation introduces three essays on the effects of various public policies on labor, education, earnings, and crime outcomes using quasi-experimental research designs. In the first essay, “Legal Access to ...
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(2019-07-03)This dissertation includes three essays in environmental and resource economics. The first two pertain to important topics in relation to the upstream oil and gas industry in the U.S. The third pertains to marine recreational ...
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(2021-07-07)This dissertation presents evaluations of ACA reforms in the state of Texas. In the first essay, I use descriptive analysis to show that after the establishment of the ACA Marketplaces in Texas, the rate of hospital ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-08-29)In this dissertation, I examine individual decisions in occupational choice, labor supply, and health care utilization. Occupational choice decisions of female college graduates on whether to teach or not are analyzed to ...
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(2009-05-15)Women, on average, are found in systematically different careers than men. The reason for this phenomenon is not fully understood, in part because expectations play a vital role in the process of career choice. Different ...
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(2016-05-10)We measure macroeconomic uncertainty and study its link to asset returns via a consumption-based model employing recursive preferences. We introduce a stochastic volatility model with two asymptotic regimes and smooth ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1991)This dissertation consists of three essays about the implications of monetary policy in response to aggregate disturbances and the role of wage indexation under the objective of minimizing output deviation from the full ...
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(2015-07-17)This dissertation introduces three essays on the short and long run consequences of educational choices. In the first essay “Conscription and the Returns to Education: Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity” we use a ...
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(2012-07-16)This dissertation is composed of three essays, investigating two aspects of the role of agricultural sector in climate change mitigation: leakage and additionality. Leakage happens when mitigation policies reduce net GHG ...
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(2017-03-21)In this thesis, I study microeconometrics and its applications in empirical questions. There are three studies, which investigate the housing vacancy rate, sticky demand, and the quantile forecasting methods for time series ...
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(2010-01-16)In this dissertation three essays were presented. In the first two essays we measure the consumer welfare changes caused by U.S. meat price changes. In the third essay the dynamic structure of international gasoline prices ...
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(2019-03-01)This dissertation presents three essays on the effects of different institutions, technologies, and shocks on health, education, labor and information outcomes using experimental and quasi-experimental research designs. ...
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(2017-05-05)This dissertation introduces three essays on the effects of different public policies on crime, education, and labor outcomes using quasi-experimental research designs. These policies include targeting high-ranked members ...
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(2010-07-14)In this dissertation, several essays in the field of bio-security are presented. The estimation of the probability of an FMD outbreak by type and location of premises is important for decision making. In Essay I, we estimate ...
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(2013-12-02)This dissertation examines future prospects of bioenergy production in the United States. The analysis examines three issues on liquid fuel and cellulosic ethanol. First, the amount that costs need to decrease in order to ...
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(2009-05-15)This dissertation investigates three issues on business failure causality and prediction. First, a nonlinear model for mathematical programming based discriminant analysis is studied. This study proposes a nonlinear model ...
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(2021-05-03)This dissertation comprises three chapters focused on the conduct of monetary policy. Specifically, I use a blend of empirical and experimental research methods study unconventional monetary policy alternatives, to quantify ...
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(2017-05-25)This dissertation consists of three essays that focus on China’s interbank money market. The first essay is an empirical examination of the responses of China’s short-term interbank interest rates to the People’s Bank of ...