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Public Program Evaluation In Health Economics : An Empirical Study, Linna Xu
Public Program Evaluation In Health Economics : An Empirical Study, Linna Xu
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This dissertation consists of three essays on public program evaluation in health economics. This dissertation explores the estimation of treatment effects of public programs on risky behaviors, health insurance status, labor market outcomes or other health-related outcomes among adolescents or young adults and addresses causality inferences based on empirical modeling, analysis and applications. The first chapter in this dissertation identifies the causal treatment effects of keg registration laws on underage alcohol consumption and related outcomes: alcohol-related traffic fatalities, by exploiting the substantial variations in the timing of the introduction of these laws across different states at different times. Using the …
Essays On Merger And Innovation, Gusang Kang
Essays On Merger And Innovation, Gusang Kang
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This dissertation focuses mainly on drivers of merger partner choice and effects on post-merger outcomes. In the first chapter, we examine the role of technology and product market similarities in value creation in mergers. Estimating a structural model of two-sided matching between acquirers and targets with transferable utility, we find that mergers between firms with similar technologies and product markets create values. In other words, firms prefer to choose other firms with similar technologies and product markets as their merger partner. We also find that mergers between firms with similar technologies create value through the channel of increasing innovation quantity …
Essays On Female Labor Supply And Fertility, Minhee Kim
Essays On Female Labor Supply And Fertility, Minhee Kim
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This thesis focuses mainly on labor supply and fertility of married women. In the first chapter, I assess how the wage penalties of the labor market absences of married women have changed between the 1970s and the 1990s. The empirical results show that the wage penalties experienced by married women have risen over the two periods. I account for why the penalty has risen over the two decades. A possible reason for greater penalties is a larger difference in occupation between those who had career interruptions and those who worked continuously.
Economics Of R&D Specialization In The Semiconductor Industry, Kyun Kim
Economics Of R&D Specialization In The Semiconductor Industry, Kyun Kim
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
Starting in the 1970s, specialized suppliers have entered the semiconductor industry to supply capital equipment, or tools, used in semiconductor manufacturing to downstream semiconductor companies. After the entry of these external suppliers, semiconductor chip producers began to rely in varying degrees on them for the R&D to improve the quality of capital equipment, while they themselves began to focus on design and production of chips. In my dissertation, I conduct an empirical and theoretical investigation to support my hypothesis that the difference in R&D incentives between the upstream suppliers and downstream chip manufacturers was the important reason for the emergence …
Essays On Money, Banking, And Finance, Duong Ngo
Essays On Money, Banking, And Finance, Duong Ngo
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This doctoral dissertation contains three essays on the topics of money, banking, and finance.
Essays On Public Policy Analysis Using Macroeconomic Models, Akihiro Nomura
Essays On Public Policy Analysis Using Macroeconomic Models, Akihiro Nomura
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
This thesis is composed of three separate essays.
Asymmetric Loss, Informatics And Forecast Uncertainty, Wuwei Wang
Asymmetric Loss, Informatics And Forecast Uncertainty, Wuwei Wang
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
In this thesis I estimate the asymmetry of forecasters’ loss functions and uncertainty of forecasts. Continuous distributions are fitted into histogram density forecasts. Of the two candidates of distributions used for the fitting process, generalized beta / triangular distribution is preferred to the normal distribution for its better fit and flexibility in accommodating excess skewness. Time varying loss function asymmetry is obtained by combining the fitted density distribution and the point forecasts of the same forecaster. Utilizing generalized beta distribution and triangular distribution, I find that forecasters tend to provide more favorable forecasts in their point forecasts than in their …