Economics: Recent submissions
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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 ... -
Essays in Education and Labor Economics
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)This paper explores treatment effects in three different contexts: an extended school year pilot program in an urban school district, a library summer reading program serving twenty-one urban school districts, and states ... -
Essays in Applied Microeconomics
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)In Chapter 1, I study how asset test elimination of Medicare Savings Programs affect elderly seniors financial difficulty to access health care. In the United States, most elderly seniors are covered by Medicare. However, ... -
Three Papers on Monetary Aggregation under Knightian Uncertainty, Kernel Estimation, and Dynamic Modelling
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)This dissertation considers monetary services aggregation theory in Macroeconomics, the nonparametric approaches in Econometrics with censoring data and endogenous variables, and the macroeconomic dynamic modelling. It ... -
Essays in Female Labor Supply in Ecuador
(University of Kansas, 2019-05-31)This is a solo-authored dissertation that contains three papers that each examines a specific aspect of the labor supply in the Ecuadorian labor market between 2007 and 2017. The chapters of this dissertation all use data ... -
Essays on Regime Change and Education Policy Reform
(University of Kansas, 2018-12-31)This dissertation consists of three chapters, each representing a self-contained research paper in health economics. The first chapter formalizes a model which generalizes several political models of collective action and ... -
Empirical Economic Studies on Colombia
(University of Kansas, 2018-08-31)This dissertation explores three different but related economic issues in the country of Colombia. The first chapter determines the impacts of the prolonged civil conflict suffered in Colombia on its unemployment rate ... -
Transaction Costs, Convergence and Gains from Trade: Evidence from Japan
(University of Kansas, 2018-08-31)Transaction costs are among the most important explanatory variables for institutional economics. Starting from Ronald Coase as the pioneer then North, Wallis, Williamson and many other economists have been pointing to ... -
The Conflict in Colombia: A Political Economic Analysis.
(University of Kansas, 2018-08-31)This research explores the armed conflict in Colombia. It consists of two parts: Part I attempts to provide a theoretical framework for the analysis of the Colombian conflict using a dynamic model. The second part, co-authored ... -
Essays in State Policy
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)This dissertation consists of three chapters each examining different areas of state policy. Each chapter revolves around an examination of different approaches taken by states in a particular area of policy. The questions ... -
Learning, Observability and Time-varying Macroeconomic Volatility
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)Our paper provides a theoretical explanation for the time-varying macroeconomic volatility by introducing the unobservability of regime switching and learning. With the unobservability of regime switching, agents must ... -
Essays in Open Macroeconomic Dynamics
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)Will capital controls enhance macro economy stability? How will the results be influenced by the exchange rate regime and monetary policy reaction? Are the consequences of policy decisions involving capital controls easily ... -
Three Essays on Advances in Macroeconomic Theory and Modeling
(University of Kansas, 2018-05-31)Abstract My dissertation consists of three papers on bifurcation and market game models. My research focuses on understanding bifurcation phenomena of macroeconometric models, exploring price stickiness and markup variations ... -
Essays on Environmental and Labor Economics
(University of Kansas, 2018-08-31)This dissertation is the collection of three papers on environmental and labor economics. The First chapter is on environmental economics. The main objective of this chapter is to explore the effect of local community ... -
Essays in Monetary and Macroprudential Policies
(University of Kansas, 2017-05-31)This dissertation consists of three chapters. The first chapter - ``Modelling Weights and Dependence Parameters in Mixed Copulas using Penalized Likelihood - Various Applications'', relates to modelling of the weights and ... -
Confidently Accessing Research in a Turbulent Time
(2019-04-23)This paper examines the insidious, largely ingrown, practices that have turned our most useful tool for sharing the fruits of our research, the scholarly communications system, into a bit of a mess. It reviews the ... -
American Foreign Aid and Turkey
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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 2003 ... -
Three essays on extensive-form games and strategic complements
(University of Kansas, 2017-12-31)Games with strategic complements have the property that best response set of a player is increasing in the strategies of opponents in the standard lattice set order. Normal form games with strategic complements have been ...
