This dissertation includes three essays in labor economics. Youth Employment Opportunities and Crime: Criminal involvement has been shown to peak at a young age. While Becker's theory of the rational criminal is often ...

This dissertation explores the impact of policy and economic conditions on the current economic crises of crime, substance abuse, and financial exclusion faced domestically and abroad. Although these issues span the income ...

This research project attempts to analyze the short-term effects of administrative responses to Covid-19 upon universities within the United States in order to forecast impacts in the long-term. It does so primarily by ...

This dissertation consists of three separate papers in the field of public economics. In the first substantive chapter, I examine several factors that affect public sentiment on the death penalty, including individual ...