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(University of Oregon, 1937-05-12)If free trade is the tonic of my historical harmonic on tariff trends, their causes and effects, it is only because the authorities I quote and the experts upon whose economic writings I have drawn have favored in varying ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-12)Feldstein and Horioka (1980) motivated the international finance literature by claiming a least squares regression of domestic investment rates on domestic savings rates is an informative measure of capital mobility. Their ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-10)This research examines three pressing social issues: tensions between lawenforcement and the public, climate change policy options, and firearms control laws. Chapter 2 and Chapter 3 use field and survey-based experiments ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)This dissertation studies the impact embedding boundedly rational agents in real business cycle-type news-shock models may have on a variety of model predictions, from simulated moments to structural parameter estimates. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)Because trade is seen as welfare improving for society, governments have long employed their policy-making powers to increase trade levels. In recent years, no strategy has been more employed by policy makers than free ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)This dissertation provides a deep exploration of identity. Three chapters present studies of the interplay between identity and various social, cultural, and economic factors from different angles. The first chapter develops ...
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The Trade Impact of Diplomatic Relations in Developing Countries: The Choice between China or Taiwan (University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)China is using the policy of diplomacy to increase its global influence, especially among developing countries. From 1995 to 2019, twenty-two developing countries from various parts of the world switched diplomatic allegiances ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)This dissertation examines game theory and evolutionary dynamics, exploring strategic decision-making, social norm emergence, and inter-group conflicts. Chapter 2 focuses on stepping stones, recurrent classes that facilitate ...
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(University of Oregon, 1959-06)Public policy for water is a national problem of major proportions and significance. Industrial and domestic water supplies have become increasingly inadequate to meet needs throughout the country. The problem of developing ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)This dissertation examines three topics in applied microeconomics: econometric challenges created by student grade-point averaging, the causal effect of violent video games on crime, and spatial distortions created by the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-10-03)This dissertation contains three essays on topics including crime, credit constraints, education, athletics and health. Tying the works together is a set of empirical tools that have come to define the field of labor ...
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(University of Oregon, 2017-09-06)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 ...
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(University of Oregon, 2009-06)This dissertation examines the role that institutions play in the existence of multiple equilibria in models of economic development. In addition, it examines the dynamics of transition between such equilibria. In the first ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-06)This dissertation addresses the high disease burden in developing countries today by examining the role of disease in economic development through its impact on productivity, fertility and human capital investment. In ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)This dissertation explores distinct facets of the association between social institutions and family formation, as it pertains to women in South Asia. In Chapter II, I analyze an increase in the legal age of marriage for ...
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(University of Oregon, 2013-07-11)An important factor in the rise of health care costs is the structure and performance of health care markets. This is an area in which policy can be particularly effective. Health care markets are characterized by complex ...
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(University of Oregon, 2008-09)This dissertation consists of three essays that empirically address aspects of three common questions posed in the Mexican immigration literature: What characteristics define migrants from Mexico? How does US border-enforcement ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)I develop new measures of Internet communication costs that hold advantages over similar measures previously used in the economics literature: they are more solidly based on the technical nature of the Internet, easier to ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)Recent economic, political, and geostrategic developments are upending the global trade framework, weakening global multilateralism and international coordination. The stability and predictability that characterized a ...
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