Behavioral economics aims to provide more realistic psychological foundations for economic models. Experimental methods can contribute to this effort by providing the ability to identify causal processes and motivations that can be confounded in field settings. The essays in this dissertation...

Long-term care services continue to play an integral role in the lives of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) despite the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). The Medicaid 1915(c) waiver is one option available to states which enables them to expand the availability of...

Creativity has become a key to economic competitiveness. However, the formation of creative labor, the social organization of production, and the operational mechanisms of the creative industry remain understudied. Existing studies overemphasize the role of information technology in the creative...

"Nonprofit theory predicts nonprofit enterprises will be more trustworthy than for-profit enterprises in the delivery of goods for which quality is difficult to determine because nonprofit enterprises are legally required to reinvest all profits back into the enterprise. Theoretically, consumers...

The dissertation offers an analysis of the role of budgetary institutions on the determination of fiscal outcomes. In the second chapter I provide a theoretical model that rationalizes differences in fiscal outcomes of two countries that are supposed to obey the same set of numerical constraints...