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Heterogeneity in Black-White Economic Disparities in the United States

Adames, Alexander - 2023

In this dissertation, three studies examine how taken-for-granted assumptions around how researchers measure race, social mobility, and education obscure heterogeneity in Black-White economic inequality.In chapter 2, I analyze Black-White wealth disparities based on skin tone using data from the...

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Essays in Risk and Public Externalities

Ohlrogge, Michael John - 2019

Over the past fifty years, financial and legal theory have predicted that owners of firms may have incentives to take … their equity holdings. Theory also predicts that the lower the value of those equity holdings (relative to total firm assets … industrial firms that as the value of equity (relative to assets) decreases, socially sub-optimal risk-taking increases. The …

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Three Essays in Wage Determination and Labor Market Inequality

Cullen, Zoe B. - 2016

This dissertation explores questions in labor economics with a particular focus on economic inequality. As one might expect, race, gender, and location are recurring themes. The dissertation makes headway on long-standing questions in economics, in large part, through the collection of...

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Essays on Fertility Choices and Labor Market Inequality

Zohar, Tom - 2021

This dissertation combines three essays studying the relationship between fertility decisions and labor market inequality. The first chapter studies the effect of providing abortions for free on women's fertility decisions and career outcomes. The second chapter looks at the importance of...

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Essays on Automation, Inequality, and Macroeconomic Performance

Koru, Ömer Faruk - 2021

In the first chapter, I provide a theory that links automation to the top income inequality. I construct a model in …

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Essays on Inequality in Labor Markets and Wealth

Wasser, David Nathaniel - 2023

This dissertation consists of three essays that address important questions within the fields of labor economics and public economics. I use advanced empirical methods and a combination of restricted access and public-use data to study the role of inequality in labor markets and wealth.In...

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Vertical Contracting in the US Health Care Industry

Craig, Stuart V. - 2021

document relatively small cost savings, or ``efficiency'' gains post-merger. Where they do exist, cost reductions tend to be …

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Strategic Planning to Alleviate Operational, Financial and Climate Risk in Supply Chain Management

Ding, Xiaobo - 2021

the operational context and the industry. The regular risk has long been studied in the literature. How to use operational … strategy to alleviate the unconventional risk remains less explained. In this dissertation, we investigate different sources of … supply chain risk: (1) operational risk, (2) financial risk and (3) climate risk.We develop linear programming and dynamic …

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Where Ideology Matters for Market Intervention and Redistribution: Evidence from Global Data

Herre, Bastian Benedikt - 2021

This dissertation addresses a question central to politics: whether the ideological orientation of the leaders and parties that govern make a difference for social welfare. A vast social-science literature argues that government ideology matters for policymaking. But this research has focused on...

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Regional Economic Inequality of China : The Trend and Interpretations From the Institutional Perspective

Sun, Xiaozhong - 2023

This dissertation investigates the underlying mechanisms of uneven regional development in China, with a particular focus on institutional factors, given the country’s significant social, economic, and political transitions since the late 1970s. The study aims to empirically analyze the role...

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