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(University of Oregon, 2014-09-29)The airline industry is a major driver of economic activity in the United States, accounting for over $1 trillion annually. In this work, I study the airline industry and analyze several key economic issues facing the ...
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(University of Oregon, 1964-03)Along with the other nations of the Western Hemisphere, the antecedents of the Canadian economy may be traced to Europe. The area which eventually became Canada was a part of the mercantile empires of both France and Great ...
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(University of Oregon, 1939-06)The scope of the present study has necessarily been limited, so it was thought advisable to study the present income tax laws, with special attention to the federal personal income tax law with its highly graduated rates. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)This dissertation addresses the economic behavior and political influence activities by lobbyists today by examining the existence, mechanisms, and welfare implications of commercial lobbying activities and their optimal ...
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(University of Oregon, 2024-01-09)This dissertation is comprised of three papers that investigate the effects of recycling policy, pollution, and public health policy. The first paper examines the impact of China's waste import ban on U.S. polltion emissions ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)Health at birth is considered an important indicator of health outcomes in adulthood. It is also shown to have a strong association with future educational attainment and labor market outcomes. I examine the effects of ...
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(University of Oregon, 1961-06)The candidate first became interested in the effects of foreign investments on the host country during an investigation of the problems of economic development of Latin America conducted by the Institute of International ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-12-08)This dissertation presents methods for economic analysis in settings characterized by sparse data. In the first substantive chapter, I show that difference-in-differences estimators can be biased in the presence of treatment ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)This dissertation examines spatial heterogeneity that results from various environmental policies. In Chapter 1, I provide a comprehensive overview of each dissertation chapter. Chapter 2 (with Ed Rubin) demonstrates that ...
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(University of Oregon, 2021-09-13)This dissertation consists of three essays: “The Effect of Women's Access to Free Health Care on Breastfeeding Practices: Evidence from Armenia” examines how women's decisions regarding breastfeeding respond to increased ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-26)This dissertation represents a study of how machine learning can be incorporated into existing econometric causal techniques, with explorationsboth in the costs and benefits of making that choice. The first chapter explores a ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)In this dissertation, I consider two potential sources of racial disparities: racially biased discipline at school and changes to voting rights protections. In the first chapter, I examine patterns of racial disparities ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)I use applied and experimental methods to empirically investigate individual decisions in a number of settings where behavior may be more consistent with models from behavioral economic theory than from traditional economic ...
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(University of Oregon, 2019-09-18)This dissertation includes previously unpublished co-authored material. The first chapter of this dissertation outlines a new method of estimating the synthetic control technique that has a number of desirable properties. ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)We empirically explore the effect of attorney representation for foster care youth in abuse and neglect hearings on adoption outcomes. By exploiting temporal variation in the passage of state-level statutes that mandate ...
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(University of Oregon, 2022-10-04)I empirically explore the potential post-secondary enrollment effects of Louisiana’s legislation requiring high school students to file a FAFSA application, or opt-out, prior to graduation. FAFSA submissions increased ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)Benefit-cost analysis of environmental policies typically focuses on benefits to human health and well-being. When it comes to humans' willingness to pay (WTP) for improvements in the quality of life for other species, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2020-02-27)This dissertation focuses on two aspects of Environmental Economics that are critical in cost-benefit analysis. Chapters II and III focus on estimating potential costs of drought that may be exacerbated by climate change, ...
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(University of Oregon, 2018-09-06)This research examines both health effects and market responses from local changes in environmental quality. Both can be of significant interest to policy makers. I examine the health effects of population exposure to ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-06)Individuals compete against each other in a variety of different settings. In labor markets they compete for promotion; in athletic tournaments they compete for fixed prizes. Important aspects of competitive choices include ...
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