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Essays On Transfer-Program Interactions Among Low-Income Households, Nicholas S. Moellman
Essays On Transfer-Program Interactions Among Low-Income Households, Nicholas S. Moellman
Theses and Dissertations--Economics
This dissertation consists of three essays examining the role of transfer-program interactions for families and households who participate in the social safety net. The safety net is comprised of many different programs, run by different agencies, governed by different rules, and often administered by disparate and secluded entities. However, many households participate in multiple programs, subjecting them to the milieu of administrative hurdles. In this dissertation, I try to untangle some of the intended and unintended effects of program participation that may be experienced by these households.
In Essay 1, I examine the effect of the Patient Protection and Affordable …
Three Essays On College Earnings Premium And China’S Higher Education Expansion, Chenxu Hu
Three Essays On College Earnings Premium And China’S Higher Education Expansion, Chenxu Hu
Theses and Dissertations--Economics
My dissertation consists of three essays that study the college premium in China and how it has been affected by China’s higher education expansion.
In the first essay, I utilize the high education expansion as exogenous source to estimate the college premium. The rapidly changing access to college provides a rare opportunity to estimate a local treatment effect (LATE) of college education on earnings by utilizing the drastic increase in college admission rate in 1999. I also utilize the yearly admission rate as an instrumental variable for the endogenous college education. Using China Household Income Project 2013, the two IV …