Browsing Electronic Theses, Dissertations, and Records of Study (2002– ) by Author "Ureta, Manuelita"
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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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Vacaflores Rivero, Diego Eduardo (2009-05-15)The significant restructuring of international capital flows to developing countries – in particular to Latin American countries – observed in the last quarter century has generated significant research in the area to ...
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McKinley, Rayna L. (2010-07-14)This thesis compares two datasets, the Science and Engineering Indicators 2006 (SEI) and the 1993 National Survey of College Graduates (NSCG), and looks at the impact of sex on full-time annual salary while controlling for ...
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Pakdeethai, Pimrak (2010-10-12)This dissertation contains two essays on the effect of welfare reform on child- birth, marriage, and divorce. In the first essay, I exploit the cross state variation in welfare reform implementation to identify its effect ...
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Rai, Birendra Kumar (2009-06-02)This dissertation is a compilation of essays highlighting the usefulness of game theory in understanding socio-economic phenomena. The second chapter tries to provide a reason for the strict codes of conduct that have been ...
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Lin, Peng (2009-05-15)This thesis examines the labor force participation decisions of married couples, and special attention is paid to a spouse’s health conditions affecting their own and the spouse’s labor force participation decision. I used ...
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Chutubtim, Piyaluk (Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)This dissertation examines the effect of changes in the stock of human capital on the labor force participation decision of women aged 25-54. Without the option of homebased work, some women choose to leave the labor market ...
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Marchon, Cassia Helena (Texas A&M University, 2008-10-10)This dissertation contains three essays. The first and second essays examine intergenerational mobility in earnings in Brazil using a data set spanning three generations. I use data from PNAD{a nationally representative ...
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Mitchem, Eric John (2009-05-15)This dissertation examines three labor market issues regarding public school administrators in Texas using personnel records from the 1994-95 school year until the 2003-04 school year. The first essay explores promotion ...
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Wade, Chad R. (2009-05-15)A central result in price theory is the law of one price: prices of a homogeneous good sold at different locations should be equal. Empirical studies of the law of one price find that it is often violated. In my dissertation ...
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Hsu, Kuang-Chung (2009-05-15)This dissertation consists of three essays, which mainly talk about the wage inequality caused by outsourcing in the source countries like the US. The title of the first essay is “Does Outsourcing Always Benefit Skilled ...
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Naufal, Georges Sami (2009-05-15)This dissertation examines the determinants, motivations and effects of remittances. In that last two decades remittances have gained interest due to their large size. For several developing countries remittances constitute ...
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Bouhlal, Yasser (2012-07-16)The United States cheese consumption has grown considerably over the years. Using Nielsen Homescan panel data for calendar years 2005 and 2006, this dissertation examines the effect of economic and socio-demographic factors ...
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Speakman, Robert B., Jr. (Texas A&M University, 2007-04-25)This dissertation examines the literature that attempts to measure the relationship between school quality and earnings. I begin by developing a simple economic model that predicts that, everything else being equal and ...
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Leonard, Megan de Linde (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 ...