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The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the effects of fiscal policy rules for funding higher education on macroeconomic concerns. Alternative government funding policies impact an endogenous household decision over post-secondary...
Following the neoclassical model of Robert Solow, several theories have been proposed to explain the fundamental causes of growth and economic development. This dissertation analyzes three of the main hypotheses. Chapter 2 explores the...
Local governments are becoming an increasingly important arm of governance and public goods provision. As the role of counties and municipalities continues to expand so must our understanding of their inner workings and relationships to...
This study quantifies the adverse results from the lock-in effect attributable to the passage of Save Our Homes Amendment 13. Originally intending to lessen homesteader tax burden, the system reduced economic efficiency by discouraging...
The decision to be self-employed has been studied in numerous scholarly papers. In particular, there has been interest in the decision to become an entrepreneur in relation to the macroeconomic climate. Scholars reference the potential...
In this dissertation, we explore the optimal design of group contests, with a primary application to organizational economics. A group contest is a strategic situation in which individuals belonging to a team expend costly effort with...
There is a breadth of literature analyzing how particular institutional frameworks affect the propensity to engage in violent conflict. The democratic peace theory suggests that democracies will be less likely to engage in conflict with...
My dissertation investigates the dynamics of international capital flows, distinguishing between net and gross flows. Chapter One considers both net and gross capital flows. I develop a small open economy model which endogenous sudden...
This dissertation is entitled "Essays in Fiscal Policy: Computational Accuracy and Optimal Investments in Public, Private, and Human Capital." The dissertation tries to answer three questions. First, how good are linearization and higher...
One of the main concerns about immigration is knowing whether immigrants will assimilate into American society. To assess whether immigrants have fully assimilated, the economic outcomes of their children must be analyzed. Previous...
This dissertation involves the relationship between market structures and innovation, with an eye to implications for antitrust. The first chapter considers whether more competitive market structures encourage more cost-reducing, process...
The first essay conducts robustness analysis on Gali's (1999) results. Following Gali's identification strategy, the model is extended to the sectoral level within the private sector. The paper also looks at the two important breaks, ...
Currently, there exist no viable data in order to accomplish the answering of the question: how much does a child cost? As a result, several models have been proposed and engineered to handle the approach to this problem in what is seen...
The first chapter in this dissertation explores the welfare benefits from relationship banking that arise from the information gleaned by banks through monitoring. If monitoring reveals not only current output, but also new information...
This dissertation contains three studies which focus on how health policies affect women. The second chapter examines how public health policies can lead to unintended effects that undermine their efficacy. Beginning in the mid-1930s, ...
In 2008, Amendment One changed homeowners' incentives to move within the state of Florida. In particular, people who had been unwilling to move due to previously accrued tax savings suddenly found moving less costly. Amendment One also...
This dissertation is a collection of three essays which utilize experimental methods to examine three non-pecuniary factors which influence employee work effort. The first looks to understand how a telecommuting environment may affect...
In this dissertation I conduct three quasi-experimental studies relating to the K-12 and postsecondary educational system in Florida. Each of these three studies are entirely separate and are only related to one another in that they...
High-speed rail technology has existed for decades, and with aid from the federal government, public ownership of the right-of-way, and preliminary research and planning, Florida may be the first state to construct a true high-speed line...
For many citizens the functioning and structure of their local government is predominantly unknown. However, local government officials often have a substantial impact on the lives of those same city residents; their decisions...
The relationship between economic growth and volatility has been the subject of numerous theoretical and empirical studies in economics. In Chapter 2, I review this extensive literature. Key among the empirical results are the Ramey and...
Chapter 1 explores how shared micromobility impacts other transportation networks, specifically taxi markets in New York City. I exploit the spatial variation in the rollout of Citi Bike dock stations in a difference-in-differences...
Data from municipal governments with populations greater than 50, 000 are examined to see the relationships between population density and per capita government expenditures and racial composition and per capita government expenditures....
Due to the rollout of provisions from the Affordable Care Act beginning in 2010 there has been significant interest in the effects of health insurance, and more broadly, the effects of health insurance policy on individuals and firms....
This research is an empirical study of the incentives of attorneys general and the determinants of case duration regarding state-level antitrust enforcement. While antitrust enforcement in the United States was founded at the state level...
Over the past decade, there has been significant volatility in the housing market. During the first half of the decade, housing prices increased at an unprecedented rate and homeownership rates reached an all time high. With an...
The world is not static - economic agents make decision in dynamic environments all the time. This dissertation focuses on the behavior of individuals and firms in such environments. In particular, we consider three settings, and for...
The overall purpose of this dissertation is to provide insight into the role surplus lines insurance companies play within the insurance industry. Surplus lines insurers are regulated quite differently than standard insurance companies, ...
This paper attempts to analyze different trends in self-employment from the years 2003-2013 using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS). Self-employment can be broken down into two categories: incorporated and unincorporated self...
This dissertation consists of three essays. The first two essays (i.e., Chapter 2 and Chapter 3) examine the effects of raising the retirement age on the life cycle behaviors of individuals and its implication on the social security...
The first two chapters of this dissertation investigate the connection between the rich theoretical environment of first price auctions and the patterns of behavior in such resulting from specific treatments in the form of social...
This research is an empirical study of how economic freedom, democratic political institutions, and foreign aid influence global poverty rates. The updated extreme and moderate poverty rates recently released by the World Bank indicate...
The essays comprising this dissertation intersect public policy and consequential personal decisions: attending college, adopting a child, or choosing the right neighborhood. These selections have an enduring effect on an individual’s...
Airline mergers allow carriers to restructure routes to create an improved network configuration, providing efficiency gains that are passed through in various ways to consumers. The gains and losses from network changes are assessed...
In the second half of the 20th century - spurred by findings that technological change played an important role in determining economic growth - research on innovation and Research and Development (R&D) became more common. The positive...
The focus of my dissertation is on understanding the important role played by financial frictions in the aggregate economy. While it is agreed that a firm's access to external financing may be vital for their economic prosperity, it is...
This dissertation seeks to understand the human decision-making process, not only in the context of neoclassical economics, but also in consideration of social and psychological factors. Through both qualitative and quantitative...
The purpose of this research is to construct an understanding of the factors that account for observed distributions. While much of the previous work has focused on developed countries, this dissertation focuses on developing countries...
Empirical studies that explicitly seek to identify the motives behind local land use regulations are relatively scarce in the existing literature. Of the few such studies that exist, a substantial share focus specifically on the...
This dissertation is composed of three papers, all using modern applied econometric methods that try to isolate causal estimates in several important settings. Each chapter examines social and formal institutions on the well-being of...
Capital control policies, such as certificate of need (CON) regulations, are often touted as a means of combatting the rising costs of healthcare. However, such policies often have little to no concern with their impact on health...
The purpose of my dissertation is to study the impact of delayed childbearing on the motherhood wage penalty. Independently, both delayed childbearing and the motherhood wage penalty have been well documented in academic studies. However...
Evidence suggests that corruption in the administering of driver's licenses has the potential to create large social harm by allowing incompetent drivers on the road, but these drivers are not guaranteed to cause accidents. Similarly, ...
I use economic experiments to investigate individual behavior under uncertainty. The first essay examines the consistency of risk preferences over two institutions. The two institutions I use are the first price sealed bid auction and a...
This dissertation is a collection of three essays that analyze and juxtapose the public safety and political interest components of law enforcement. In general, these sometimes conflicting interests can be extrapolated to other agents in...
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