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"Integrated Science 3002a: Big Bike Giveaway: Changing London's Environment, Health, And Economy One Bike At A Time", Jermiah Joseph, Katelyn Melo, Devanshi Shukla, Tony Nguyen, Katherine Teeter

Community Engaged Learning Final Projects

There are significant benefits that manifest when an individual chooses to ride a bicycle as their primary mode of transportation. To investigate these benefits, the environmental, health, economic, and social impacts of biking were evaluated through research and data analyses. This revealed that numerous advantages can be obtained at an individual and local scale through citizens choosing to adopt a biking lifestyle. However, it was found that many Londoners are deterred from biking due to poor biking infrastructure. This paper calls into question the current cycling framework in London and it’s limitations on achieving the numerous benefits that biking offers. …

Essays On Parental Leave And Family Labour Supply, Youjin Choi

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

This thesis studies married couples' decisions regarding labour supply, fertility, and take-up of parental leave. Importantly, it emphasizes household interactions in a family labour supply framework where husbands and wives jointly make decisions.

In Chapter 2, I describe how differences in married individuals' time allocations between Canada and the U.S. may be related to different parental leave policies in the two countries. First, I document background information on parental leave policies and take-up behaviour in the two countries. Second, I analyze married individuals' time allocations using data from the General Social Survey (GSS) for Canada and American Time Use Survey …

Essays On Crime, Education, And Employment, Maria Antonella Mancino

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

My thesis consists of three chapters that are motivated by policy-relevance and contribute to the study of crime choices among young individuals.

Chapter 2 studies the determinants of youth crime using a dynamic discrete choice model of crime and education. We allow past education and criminal activities to affect current crime and educational decisions. We take advantage of a rich panel dataset on serious juvenile offenders, the Pathways to Desistance. Using a series of psychometric tests, we estimate a model of cognitive and social/emotional skills which feed into the crime and education model. This allows us to separately identify the …

Essays In International Economics: The Trade-Creation Effect Of Migration, Miguel Cardoso

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

My thesis consists of three chapters relating to topics in International Economics. My first two chapters study the effects of migration flows on the economic outcomes of stayers for both receiving and sending countries. In both these chapters I develop and calibrate two distinct general equilibrium (GE) models to study the quantitative effect of migration on the real income of workers. The third chapter empirically investigates the relationship between firm export behaviour and their composition of foreign-born workers.

In my first chapter I develop a multi-country GE model where consumers choose where to reside, facing a trade-off between potentially earning …

Non-Linear Time Series Modelling With Applications To Equity And Fixed Income Markets, Galyna Grynkiv

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Repository

My thesis focuses on theoretical and empirical aspects of modelling time series during different financial and economic conditions. It consists of three separate chapters in which the properties of Threshold Vector Autoregressive Model (TVAR) models are addressed with subsequent applications to equity and fixed income markets. In the first chapter, which is a joint work with my supervisor Lars Stentoft, we examine the steady state properties of the TVAR model. Assuming the trigger variable is exogenous and the regime process follows a Bernoulli distribution, we derive the necessary and sufficient conditions for existence of a stationary distribution. The derived stationarity …

Separating The Sands: Karl Clark And Early Oil Sands Research In Alberta, Shane Roberts

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Karl Clark’s research on the oil sands had a huge impact on the province of Alberta. From the 1920s to the 1950s, Clark was one of few researchers who remained involved throughout the entire developmental period of the oil sands industry. Clark’s persistence and systematic experimentation led to the development of an effective hot water separation process which resulted in viable commercial development of the oil sands. Without his extensive experience and sustained involvement and passion for the project, the oil sands would not have been developed when they were. The sparse earlier historiography of the developmental period has tended …

Revisiting M&M With Taxes: An Alternative Equilibrating Process, Zhichuan Li, Kenneth J. Kopecky, Timothy F. Sugrue, Alan Tucker

Business Publications

Modigliani and Miller present an equity-quantity shifting equilibrating process to achieve an optimal firm value in the presence of corporate taxes. However, in the era in which they derived their various propositions regarding the relation between a firm’s value and its capital structure, well-capitalized takeover specialists including private equity firms and sovereign funds did not exist, at least by today’s standards. In this paper we develop a simple arbitrage strategy, made viable by the presence of takeover firms, which presents an alternative equilibrating process to achieve the same optimal firm value. This alternative process is markedly different from that of …

2018-3 Equivalences Among Five Game Specifications, Including A New Specification Whose Nodes Are Sets Of Past Choices, Peter A. Streufert

Department of Economics Research Reports

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2018-2 Demographics And Sectoral Reallocations: A Search Theory With Immobile Workers, Simona E. Cociuba, James C. Macgee

Department of Economics Research Reports

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2018-4 Why The Fuss? - Friedman (1968) After Fifty Years, David Laidler

Department of Economics Research Reports

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2018-5 The Collapse And Recovery Of The Capital Share In East Germany After 1989, Simona E. Cociuba

Department of Economics Research Reports

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2018-1 On The Identification Of Gross Output Production Functions, Amit Gandhi, Salvador Navarro, David Rivers

Centre for Human Capital and Productivity. CHCP Working Papers

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2018-2 Parental Support, Savings And Student Loan Repayment, Lance Lochner, Todd Stinebrickner, Utku Suleymanoglu

Centre for Human Capital and Productivity. CHCP Working Papers

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2018-5 Uncertainty About Future Income: Initial Beliefs And Resolution During College, Yifan Gong, Todd Stinebrickner, Ralph Stinebrickner

Centre for Human Capital and Productivity. CHCP Working Papers

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2018-7 The Disability Option: Labor Market Dynamics With Macroeconomic And Health Risks, Amanda Michaud, David Wiczer

Centre for Human Capital and Productivity. CHCP Working Papers

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The Impact Of Drug And Firm Attributes On Stock Price Movements Around Fda Drug Approval Decisions, Julian Donovan

2018 Undergraduate Awards

This paper evaluates the impact of firm and drug attributes on the stock price movements of drug companies before, during, and after a drug approval decision by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Previous literature demonstrates significant stock price volatility around these events on average, but do not explicitly examine if certain attributes can help explain this volatility for individual companies. In this paper, holding period returns and cumulative abnormal returns (obtained via the Fama-French model) are regressed on relevant firm and drug attributes. The findings suggest that the type of disease a drug treats has little impact on its …

2018-4 Time-Use And Academic Peer Effects In College, Nirav Mehta, Ralph Stinebrickner, Todd Stinebrickner

Centre for Human Capital and Productivity. CHCP Working Papers

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2018-6 Dynamics Of Deterrence: A Macroeconomic Perspective On Punitive Justice Policy, Bulent Guler, Amanda Michaud

Centre for Human Capital and Productivity. CHCP Working Papers

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2018-3 Job Tasks And The Gender Wage Gap Among College Graduates, Todd Stinebrickner, Ralph Stinebrickner, Paul Sullivan

Centre for Human Capital and Productivity. CHCP Working Papers

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2018-1 Filling The Gap: Long Run Canadian Wealth Inequality In International Context, James B. Davies, Livio Di Matteo

Department of Economics Research Reports

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2018-6 The Category Of Node-And-Choice Forms, With Subcategories For Choice-Sequence Forms And Choice-Set Forms, Peter A. Streufert

Department of Economics Research Reports

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