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Essays On Labor Economics, Gabriel Movsesyan
Essays On Labor Economics, Gabriel Movsesyan
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
In the first chapter, I evaluate the wage impacts from exogenous and endogenous peer effects within different metropolitan areas. I construct comparison groups for workers within the same industry and Public Use Microdata Area (PUMA) residence based on support from existing literature on social networks, and estimate peer and network effects in a spatial auto-regressive model with a network structure that in- corporates group fixed effects. Inclusion of these effects reveals that both observed and unobserved factors within each network have significant effects on individual outcomes. This is the first attempt to estimate the social effects on wages using the …
Essays In Health Economics, Aigbokhai Unuigbe
Essays In Health Economics, Aigbokhai Unuigbe
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This dissertation is motivated by changes in health and labor policies of the United States that have occurred over the last two decades. It examines how these policies as well as public programs affect behavior and outcomes. These programs and policies have the potential to impact behavior directly at the individual level and could also have indirect effects at the household level. In addition, the effects on healthcare use and health status are also examined. This dissertation consists of three chapters.
The first chapter looks at the effect of changes in Medicaid policy on legal immigrant parents in the United …
Essays On The Well-Being Of An Aging Population, Alice Zulkarnain
Essays On The Well-Being Of An Aging Population, Alice Zulkarnain
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This dissertation consists of three essays that examine health and labor issues among the middle aged and elderly.
Chapter 1. A Delayed Retirement Policy and Male Labor Supply: Evidence from the Entire Dutch Population
This chapter examines the labor supply effects of a national delayed retirement policy introduced in the Netherlands in 2009. The policy offers a reduction in taxes on labor income for each year after the age of 62 in which a person worked. I estimate the average effect of the policy on male labor supply as well as its responsiveness to the size of the incentive. Comparing …