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Essays In Applied Microeconomics, Eric Osborne-Christenson
Essays In Applied Microeconomics, Eric Osborne-Christenson
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This dissertation consists of three chapters and covers topics in applied microeconomics broadly defined as health and labor. The precise topics are varied, with their unifying thread being that they are all related to marginalized or at-risk communities. The first chapter estimates the impact of Daylight Saving Time (DST) on deaths of despair (DoD) in the United States. Using Multiple Cause-of-Death Mortality Data from the National Vital Statistics System of the National Center for Health Statistics from 1979-1988, the effect is identified in two ways: a regression discontinuity design (RDD) that exploits discrete time changes in the Spring and Fall; …
The Effects Of Eighth Years Of Compulsory Schooling Enforcement In Turkey, Muhammed Tumay
The Effects Of Eighth Years Of Compulsory Schooling Enforcement In Turkey, Muhammed Tumay
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This dissertation consists of two chapters that cover Education, Labor and Health Economics.
Chapter 1. Impacts of Compulsory Schooling Reform on Higher Education and Intergenerational Educational Mobility: we estimate the effects of an exogenous increase in mandatory schooling (5 years to 8 years of schooling), as a result of a change in compulsory schooling law, on higher education, potential intergenerational educational mobility, and labor market outcomes among women in Turkey. Our empirical strategy addresses a well-known identification problem where women’s years of schooling are endogenous to individual characteristics. The Law took effect in 1997, whereby girls born before January …
Essays On Paid Sick Leave In The United States, Shaoying Ma
Essays On Paid Sick Leave In The United States, Shaoying Ma
Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects
This dissertation consists of two chapters.
Chapter 1 This study estimates the causal effect of access to paid sick leave on worker mobility, by exploiting variation in the implementation of local paid sick leave mandates over time in the U.S. I use May 2004 - June 2019 Current Population Survey (CPS) basic monthly data, and by taking a Difference-in-Differences approach, I find that the local mandates significantly reduce private sector employees' monthly job turnover. This study is, to the best of my knowledge, the first to present the effect of local paid sick leave mandates in the U.S. on worker …