Browsing by Author "Gan, Li"
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Wang, Yaojing (2016-05-04)In this dissertation, we use student-level high school and college entrance exam data from a city in China to explore the effects of peers, relative ranking and teacher quality on student test outcomes and track choices. ...
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Wu, Xi (2014-08-08)This dissertation consists of three essays about adverse selection and advantageous selection in life insurance and health insurance markets. Firstly, I confirm the advantageous selection in voluntary private health ...
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Dai, Chaoyi (2020-11-16)In China, the soaring house prices made households form the anticipation of rising house prices. We analyzed the effect of housing policies when an expectation for the booming house market was formed. In this paper, we ...
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Yuan, Yan (2009-05-15)Phytosterol is a healthful ingredient that helps reduce blood cholesterol levels. It has been over ten years since the first phytosterol-enriched product, Benecol margarine, was launched in Finland in 1995; however, ...
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Zhang, Pian (2015-08-03)This dissertation studies the interrelationship among attractiveness, education and marriage market outcomes. In Section 2, I first examine individuals attractiveness in four dimensions: anthropometric measures (e.g. ...
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Wang, Kang (2016-12-07)This dissertation studies three topics on bequests and bequest motives. It firstly documents the patterns and time trends of bequest distributions. Then this dissertation estimates the impacts of bequests and estate taxation ...
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Yu, Chin-Hsien (2014-07-25)This dissertation investigates the agricultural impacts of climate change in three ways addressing water implications of mitigation strategies, feedlot livestock productivity vulnerability induced by climate change and ...
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Cohen, David (2013-09-30)While China has traditionally had exceedingly high saving rates over generations, there has been a current trend towards a remarkable decrease in this tendency. The theory behind life cycle savings models suggests that ...
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Long, Wei (2015-06-10)This dissertation contains two essays which examine the theory of model selection in econometrics and its applications. In the first essay, we utilize a model average approach to estimate a mixture copula. We average over ...
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Karakaplan, Mustafa (2012-10-19)In this dissertation, I analyze the effects of competition in education markets. In my first essay, I analyze the effects of different concentration measures on school personnel salaries. I find evidence that principals ...
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Hsu, Su-Chin (2018-11-27)Family- and child-related topics in China have drawn wide attention from the public and scholars. A number of studies have been interested in the impact of the recent change from the one-child policy to the two-child policy ...
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Cao, Zixia (2012-10-19)This dissertation examines how the stock market reacts to announcements of introduction of co-branded new products. Despite the apparent enthusiasm of practitioners towards co-branding--the practice of using two established ...
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Gu, Jingping (2009-05-15)This dissertation consists of three essays. Chapter II examines the possible asymmetric response of gasoline prices to crude oil price changes using an error correction model with GARCH errors. Recent papers have looked ...
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Zhao, Naibao (2018-04-30)This dissertation introduces two essays with the focus on alternative approaches to empirical research in economics. The first essay uses a reduced-form approach to address a “macro-phenomenon:” the long-standing puzzle ...
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Zou, Lin (2009-05-15)
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Wang, Yingning (2010-10-12)One of the very interesting demographic features in the US over the last several decades is the persistent racial educational gap between blacks and whites and the reverse gender education gap as a result of the rapid rise ...
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Wang, Wen-Yao (2009-05-15)My research focuses on the reasons for banking crises and the corresponding policy rules that could help prevent such crises. This abstract briefly reviews the two essays in my dissertation. The first essay focuses on the ...
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Zhang, Shuoxun (2011-06-01)My dissertation investigates the behavior of consumers and banks in the presence of government as the credit insurer of last resort. Consumers have an option to file for bankruptcy under law when there are unexpected adverse ...
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Sun, Yongzhi (2018-05-03)This essay contains three essays in applied microeconomics. The first and second paper study the China’s household saving rate and the third studies the economic policy in China. In Volume 119 of the Journal of Political ...
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Si, Ruichao (2019-04-09)China has experienced fast development in the past decades. This dissertation studies several topics related to the recent development issues in rural and urban China. Section 2 studies China’s urbanization since the 2010s. ...