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Time-delay control for stabilization of the Shapovalov mid-size firm model
(Elsevier, 2021-04-14)Control and stabilization of irregular and unstable behavior of dynamic systems (including chaotic processes) are interdisciplinary problems of interest to a variety of scientific fields and applications. Using the control ... -
Does Science Discriminate against Women? Evidence from Academia, 1973–97
(2001-02)This study uses data from the Survey of Doctorate Recipients to evaluate differences in employment outcomes for academic scientists by gender. A decomposition of estimated salary differences shows that over time, gender ... -
Does Marriage Matter for Children? Assessing the Causal Impact of Legal Marriage
(2007-11)This paper examines whether parental marriage confers educational advantages to children relative to cohabitation. We exploit a dramatic marriage boom in Sweden in late 1989 created by a reform of the Widow’s Pension System ... -
Does Marriage Lead to Specialization? An Evaluation of Swedish Trends in Adult Earnings Before and After Marriage
(2010-07-13)We examine whether marriage leads to specialization in Sweden by implementing a model that differentiates specialization in the household by cohabitation and marriage. Our paper evaluates this model using panel data to ... -
Diversity in Academic Biomedicine: An Evaluation of Education and Career Outcomes with Implications for Policy
(2009-09-22)Currently, the U.S. population is undergoing major racial and ethnic demographic shifts that could affect the pool of individuals interested in pursuing a career in biomedical research. To achieve its mission of improving ... -
An Evaluation of the Kansas Bioscience Authority Economic Impact Measures
(2012-06)In the fall of 2011, the Kansas Bioscience Authority (KBA) requested that the University of Kansas Center for Science, Technology & Economic Policy at the Institute for Policy & Social Research provide a review of KBA’s ... -
The Impact of Postdoctoral Fellowships on a Future Independent Career in Federally Funded Biomedical Research
(2018-04)The Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) program is a major research training program administered by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) with funds appropriated each year by Congress. This study ... -
Fathers' Multiple-Partner Fertility and Children's Educational Outcomes
(Duke University Press, 2022-01-13)Fathers' multiple-partner fertility (MPF) is associated with substantially worse educational outcomes for children. We focus on children in fathers' second families that are nuclear: households consisting of a man, a woman, ... -
Association Between State Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Policies, Child Protective Services Involvement, and Foster Care in the US, 2004-2016
(American Medical Association, 2022-07-13)Importance: Public assistance policies may play a role in preventing child maltreatment by improving household resources among families of low incomes. The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is one of the ... -
Reflections on race, ethnicity, and NIH research awards
(American Society for Cell Biology, 2021-12-23)It has been a decade since “Race, Ethnicity, and NIH Research Awards” was published. Receiving the American Society for Cell Biology Public Service Award allows me to reflect on this research and its impact. In this essay, ... -
Three Essays on Computational Approaches to Economics
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)The three essays included in this dissertation are on three di?erent popular computational approaches that are widely applicable in economics. In Chapter 1, a state-space model is constructed which is linear in state ... -
Essays on the Impact of Presidential Elections on the U.S. Stock Market
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)This dissertation consists of two essays that are organized as chapters. In the first chapter, I examine the effect of presidential elections on the timing of turning points of stock market cycles in the United States. The ... -
Divisia Monetary Aggregates and Exchange Rate Forecasting
(University of Kansas, 2019-12-31)Divisia monetary aggregates have been shown to be an improvement on the simple-sum monetary aggregates used by policy makers in the great majority of central banks in the world. Since Barnett (1978, 1980) derived the User ... -
Hurdles And Steps: Estimating Demand For Solar Photovoltaics
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Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics: Medicaid Expansion, CEMENT Coauthorship Networks, and Occupational Licensing
(University of Kansas, 2019-08-31)ABSTRACT This dissertation includes three essays in applied microeconomics, which is a fundamental outward-looking branch of economics that applies both economics theories and methodologies to actual questions of individual ... -
Mathematical economics before Cournot
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Property taxation in Virginia
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Antitrust analysis with upward pricing pressure and cost efficiencies
(Public Library of Science, 2020-01-08)We investigate the accuracy of UPP as a tool in antitrust analysis when there are cost efficiencies from a horizontal merger. We include merger-specific cost efficiencies in a tractable manner in the model and extend the ... -
Analysis of the Effects of Kansas School Funding Reform on Standardized Testing Scores
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)Kansas public school funding has been a contentious policy matter for several years. Brownback-era tax cuts reduced funding to a point where absolute funding levels were deemed unconstitutional in both adequacy and fairness. ... -
Publications as predictors of racial and ethnic differences in NIH research awards
(Public Library of Science, 2018-11-14)This research expands efforts to understand differences in NIH funding associated with the self-identified race and ethnicity of applicants. We collected data from 2,397 NIH Biographical Sketches submitted between FY ...
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