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This dissertation explores the dark side of corporate political connections. Chapter One investigates the reputational spillover effect between scandal-tainted congresspersons and politically-connected firms. During the period 1992-2018, ...
Since the reauthorization of the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act in 2018, national and state educational policies are prioritizing career and technical education (CTE). A longstanding part of the...
This study examines how student learning conditions are impacted by the allocation of school resources, especially time and staff. It also explores the consequences of such allocation on student achievement. More specifically, it...
This dissertation explores two different kinds of investor preferences for stocks: geographicpreference and skewness preference. In the first essay titled "Faster than Flying: High-Speed Rail, Investors, and Firms", we study the effects...
Chapter One examines the possibility of labor upgrading during the financial crisis of 2008-2009. We use granular information on the intended demand of foreign workers by publicly traded U.S. firms during 2005–2012 to examine firm-level...
Chapter One examines how the exemption of short sale uptick tests due to the Regulation SHO pilot program affects managers' decisions to abandon value-reducing acquisition attempts. We find that when deciding whether to abandon value...
Career and technical education (CTE) has been a contested area with mixed study results and conflicting theories. Adding to the controversy is the fact that various types of CTE programs are implemented in diverse ways, which creates...
Chapter One examines the impact of a chief executive officer (CEO) winning an employee opinion award on firm value. Leveraging close employee vote shares in a regression discontinuity specification from Glassdoor's "Top CEOs Employees'...
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