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(University of Oregon, 2020-09-24)Fossil fuel markets have formed the backbone of commerce in the United States for the better part of the last century. Whether it be through the extraction of raw materials, the refinement for future use, their use in the ...
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(University of Oregon, 2010-09)Economists typically assume that individuals behave in accordance with rational choice theory. In practice, however, individual behavior can deviate from the predictions of models founded upon basic economic theory. The ...
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(University of Oregon, 2012)I estimate two models of consumer health insurance choices where individual attributes and e.g., income, age, gender, cost, etc. affect qualification for specific programs e.g., Medicaid and Medicare, but also affect the ...
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(University of Oregon, 1962-08)Due to the rather unique character of commercial banking as a business, with the very large proportion of liabilities payable on demand, the necessity of maintaining an adequate level of liquidity assumes more importance ...
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(University of Oregon, 1935-09)History should not be regarded as the “dry bones closed quote of the past, unreal, and of no significance for the present. Governments in the past have faced serious economic crises, unemployment, agricultural discontent, ...
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(University of Oregon, 1950-07)The total direct and guaranteed debt of the United States government stands at $256 billion. This large national liability poses problems to which the public expects its elected officials to find adequate answers. Will ...
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(University of Oregon, 1942-06)With the Roosevelt Administration still a reality rather than an historical fact, it is with great difficulty that emotionalism can be avoided in an attempt to study it. The policies of this Administration have been ...
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(University of Oregon, 2015-08-18)The most fundamental question in economics is what causes some countries to prosper. An emerging literature has focused on the role of culture in determining growth. I interpret culture as "the collective programming of ...
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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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