In this paper we test the Environment Kuznet's Curve (EKC) hypothesis for 43 developing countries. We suggest examining the EKC hypothesis based on the short- and long-run income elasticities; that is, if the long-run income elasticity is smaller than the short-run income elasticity then it is...

Abstract: This paper conjectures that economics has changed profoundly since the 1970s and that these changes involve a new understanding of the relationship between theoretical and applied work. Drawing on an analysis of John Bates Clark medal winners, it is suggested that the discipline became...

While historians of economics have noted the transition toward empirical work in economics since the 1970s, less understood is the shift toward \quasi-experimental" methods in applied microeconomics. Angrist and Pischke (2010) trumpet the wide application of these methods as a \credibility...

The aviation industry changed dramatically in the wake of the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978. My paper looks at an element of this transformation - the policy according to which take off and landing slots were allocated at congested airports including a proposal to change this policy - an...

Arguably, one of the most important developments in the field of applied economics during the last decades has been the emergence of systematic policy evaluation, with its distinct focus on the establishment of causality.By contrast to the natural sciences, the objects of our scientific interest...

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. August 2011. Major: Agricultural and Applied Economics. Advisors: Professor Jean Kinsey, Professor Paul Glewwe. 1 computer file (PDF);ix, 150 pages, appendices A-G.

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. Feb. 2011. Major: Applied economics. Advisor:Terry L. Roe. 1 computer file (PDF); x, 160 pages, appendices A-D.

University of Minnesota M.S. thesis. July 2011. Major: Applied economics. Advisor: Gerard McCullough. 1 computer file (PDF); vi, 91 pages.

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. March 2011. Major: Applied Economics. Advisor: Terry Roe. 1 computer file (PDF); xv, 165 pages, appendices p. 117-165.

University of Minnesota M.S. thesis. May 2011. Major: Applied economics. Advisor: Chengyan Yue. 1 computer file (PDF); iv, 47 pages.