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Author : Nigar Nargis
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Total Pages : 246 pages
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Download or read book Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics and Labor Economics written by Nigar Nargis and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Serena Patricia Canaan
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ISBN 13 : 9781369146806
Total Pages : 176 pages
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Download or read book Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics written by Serena Patricia Canaan and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis includes three papers in applied microeconomics. The first paper examines how providing long periods of paid parental leave affects parents' labor market decisions and children's well-being. The second study, co-authored with Pierre Mouganie, documents the labor market returns to quality of higher education for low-achieving students. The last paper looks at the effects of postponing middle school tracking on students' long term labor market outcomes.
Author : Jie Yang
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Total Pages : 124 pages
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Download or read book Three Essays on Applied Microeconomics written by Jie Yang and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation consists of three chapters, each of which can be considered an independent essay. The three essays contribute to labor economics, sports economics, and behavioral economics. The first chapter focuses on pay and performance in a team environment. Working in teams increases productivity but also generates incentives to shirk. Recent research suggests that peer enforcement, coupled with financial incentives in a setting of repeated interactions, can play a role in deterring shirking in teams. This paper, entitled "Peer Enforcement in Teams: Evidence from High-Skill Professional Workers with Repeated Interactions," analyzes 10 years of performance and compensation data for NFL offensive linemen, a high-skill, high-salary, repeatedly interacting team, using the Hausman-Taylor estimator to control for unobservable individual-specific heterogeneity. We find evidence that teammates' effort signals reduce the salaries of individual offensive linemen, providing a low powered sanctioning mechanism for individual workers in this setting. A separate, independently monitored individual effort signal also reduces salaries. The second chapter of my dissertation is "Consumption Commitments and Simultaneous Insuring and Gambling: evidence from Canada." This paper extends recent work by Chetty and Szeidl (2007) on a classic economic research question: why do some individuals simultaneously buy insurance and gamble? This behavior is "contradictory" to von Neumann-Morgenstern expected utility theory because insurance purchase indicates risk aversion while gambling indicates risk loving. Chetty and Szeidl (2007) propose a novel explanation based on consumption commitments which magnify risk aversion, inducing Friedman-Savage local non-concavity in the utility function. Theoretically, the paper shows that commitments increase risk loving over gambles with large uncertain payoffs but for gambles with moderate-to-large uncertain payoffs, moderate commitments amplify risk loving, while large commitments mitigate risk loving. Empirically, patterns in household decisions to participate in government-run lotteries, small prize gambles (including casino gambling, slot machines, and video lottery terminals), and to purchase life insurance support these predictions; households with large consumption commitments are more likely to participate in activities with large uncertain payoffs. The last chapter, "The Relationship Between Consumer Spending on Exercise, Sports Betting and Attending Sporting Events" also utilizes data from the SHS, but a large sample - more than 145,000 households. We investigate the relationship between consumer spending on three alternative leisure time activities: sports betting, exercise and attending live sporting events. Recent proposed changes in legal sports betting, and claims about attending games and participation in physical activity motivate analysis of these categories of consumer spending. Using several versions of an Almost Ideal Demand System (AIDS) and the related Quadratic AIDS (QAIDS) models, we estimate the parameters that determine the relationship between consumer spending on these activities. Results show that betting and attending games are complements. Betting and exercise, and attending games and exercise are substitutes.
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Total Pages : 242 pages
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Download or read book Microeconomic Essays on Technology, Labor Markets and Firm Strategy written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation consists of three essays in applied microeconomics. These essays investigate different aspects of the impact of technology on labor market outcomes and firm strategy. The first essay, co-authored with Ronald L. Oaxaca, is in the area of labor economics and it investigates the relation between non-neutral technological change and the gender gap in wages. This essay is the first to address the issue of the recent narrowing of the gender wage gap in the context of technological change by using a novel approach to separately estimate the effects of technological change and discrimination on the gender wage gap. Using a constant elasticity of substitution production function and Current Population Survey data on employment and wages by industry and occupation, the results show that changes in non-neutral technological change explain between 5% and 9% of the narrowing of the wage gap between 1979 and 2001. The latter two essays span topics across applied industrial organization, firm strategy and labor economics. The second component of my dissertation investigates the relation between technological knowledge diffusion through the labor mobility of scientists and the organization of R & D activities by innovative firms. Using a labor mobility measure from the Current Population Survey March Supplements as a measure for inter-firm technology spillovers and a panel of R & D alliance data for 18 U.S. industries between 1989 and 1999, a Poisson estimation shows that firms facing a 10% increase in the labor mobility of scientists have a 5% increase in the annual number of R & D collaborations. The third essay is an empirical analysis of the impact of knowledge dissemination generated by the labor mobility of scientists and engineers on a measure of the pace of innovation. Using an unbalanced panel of firms containing patent data matched with firm data across eight innovative industries, from 1989 to 1998, along with a measure of the labor mobility of scientists and engineers, this essay provides evidence that firms in industries exposed to levels of labor mobility of scientists and engineers that differ by 1%, have an expected time lag between sequential generations of technologies that differs by 0.56 years.
Author : Diego Rodriguez
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Total Pages : 238 pages
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Download or read book Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics written by Diego Rodriguez and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Natalie Kristine Goodpaster
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ISBN 13 : 9780549084198
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Three Essays in Applied Labor Economics written by Natalie Kristine Goodpaster and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis is composed of three chapters, each with its own theme and contribution to the applied microeconomics literature.
Author : Moon Moon Haque
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Download or read book Essays in Applied Microeconomics written by Moon Moon Haque and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My dissertation comprises three essays in applied microeconomics. They mostly focused on the evaluation and recommendation of policy issues in the fields of health economics and labor economics, with a direct objective toward to alleviate inequality, and to promote efficient and effective economic policies. The first essay studies how the coverage of health insurance can contribute to obesity (BMI index). First, I extend the the theoretical model of Ehrlich and Becker (1972) to find the relationship between health insurance and obesity; and then supplement the theoretical findings with empirical evidence, using BRFSS data from 2001to 2011 among American young adults. IV regression approach and Lewbel IV (2007) techniques were used to estimate the relationship. The results show that a mere switch from from no health insurance to having insurance is associated with a decrease in BMI of 0.188 kg/m2; which means a weight loss of 1.33 pounds. The second essay explores the possible determinants of out-of-pocket healthcare expenditure (OOPHE) and catastrophic expenditure (CE) in a developing Asian country setting, utilizing a nationally representative random sample of 12,240 households from Bangladesh. Using a Double Hurdle model (Cragg, 1971) approach, I analyze what are the major socioeconomic, demographic and regional factors that are possible determinants of OOPHE and CE. Contrary to common perception that the decesion of whether to spend on healthcare services and how much to spend depend primaily on an individual's health and illness, my analysis shows that illness is but one of the many many factors involved in demand for healthcare. Other influences, such as household characteristics, level of education, types of medical consultants, location, and wealth variable plays a significant role. In addition, expenditure on pharmaceutical drugs is the major component (57%-72%) of healthcare expenditure, and rural households are more likely to suffer CE. Lastly, the third essay studies the empirical evaluations of the effectiveness of reservation policies in Indian labor market. The effectiveness of such prejudicial treatment policies was measured by comparing the relative performance of wage differencials as well as returns to educational attainment accross social caste structure. The study shows that the effectiveness of such policies was positive across all socials groups, although its effect has not been uniform across social structure and in addition, the trend indicates a general decline in benefits of such policies enacted in favor of underprivileged social groups over the survey years. Given the findings, the issue of prejudicial treatment policies still have immense importance from a government policy perspective. .
Author : Konrad Burchard Burchardi
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Download or read book Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics written by Konrad Burchard Burchardi and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Xia Li
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Total Pages : 266 pages
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Download or read book Three Essays on Applied Microeconomics and Corporate Strategy written by Xia Li and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation focuses on applied microeconomics and corporate strategy.
Author : Paul W. Thomas
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Download or read book Essays in Labor Economics and Applied Microeconomics written by Paul W. Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arman Khachiyan
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Download or read book Essays in Applied Microeconomics written by Arman Khachiyan and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation contains three essays studying topics in applied microeconomics. The first chapter is a co-authored paper in which we use daytime satellite imagery and convolutional neural networks to model economic growth at the neighborhood level. In the second chapter, I use this model to examine the spatial distribution of residential impacts from fracking. The third chapter investigates methods of measuring skill distance between occupations and proposes a new method which matches patterns of observed occupational transition. Each chapter uses unconventional data sources and machine learning techniques to contribute to central questions in labor economics research and policy. In the first chapter we apply deep learning to daytime satellite imagery to predict changes in income and population at high spatial resolution in US data. Our model predictions achieve R2 values of and 0.32 to 0.46 in decadal changes, which have no counterpart in the literature and are 3-4 times larger than for commonly used nighttime lights. Our network has wide application for analyzing localized economic shocks. One such application is my second chapter, which studies changes in total neighborhood income and population in areas near fracking extraction and shale reserves. My microspatial approach identifies that fracking exposure as far as 20 miles away leads to a 2 percent decline in neighborhood income. The spatial gradient and associated mechanisms of this effect indicate that it is driven by local industrialization rather than direct environmental externalities. Examination reveals margins of policy and labor conditions which attenuate the observed impacts. In the third chapter I show that a regression framework generates a novel, empirical occupational skill distance norm which is disciplined by observed occupation switching patterns. This approach relieves key limitations of existing measures such as linearity and symmetry. It also allows for an analysis of which skill dimensions relate to the portability of human capital, and which do not. Implications for existing results on skill portability are discussed, along with immediate policy applications on employee adjustment costs.
Author : Wan-Ju Franz
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Total Pages : 176 pages
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Download or read book Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics written by Wan-Ju Franz and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Emily Glassberg Sands
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Download or read book Essays in Applied Microeconomics written by Emily Glassberg Sands and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation contains three chapters. Each applies the tools of applied microeconomics to questions in labor economics, the economics of education, and social economics, respectively. In the first chapter, which is joint work with Amanda Pallais, we present the results of a series of field experiments in an online labor market designed to test whether workers referred to a firm by existing employees perform differently from their non-referred counterparts and, if so, why. We find that referred workers have higher performance and lower turnover than non-referred workers. We demonstrate a large role for selection: referred workers perform better and persist longer even at jobs to which they are not referred at a firm where their referrers do not work. Team production is also important: referred workers are much more productive when working with their own referrer than with someone else's referrer.
Author : Jürgen Maurer (Actor)
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Total Pages : 120 pages
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Download or read book Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics written by Jürgen Maurer (Actor) and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cary Anthony Elliot
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Total Pages : 172 pages
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Download or read book Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics written by Cary Anthony Elliot and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Xuefei Wang
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Total Pages : 244 pages
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Download or read book Three Essays on Applied Microeconomics written by Xuefei Wang and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis consists of three essays that study three different economic phenomena. The first essay is inspired by the strikingly large number of children left behind by migrant parents in rural China. I study the effect of parental migration on the school enrolment of their left-behind children. I used a probit regression for my empirical analysis. I find evidence of a negative effect of parental migration on children's school enrolment, and this negative effect is larger on the school enrolment of boys than on girls'. The effect of parental migration is robust to the use of instrumental variable analysis by instrumenting for parental migration status using "the number of other migrant household members". In the second essay, I set up a theoretical model trying to investigate why villagers redistribute farmland periodically though it is against the central government's policy, and I study the implication of this redistribution on long-run investment. I propose a limited liability model of land tenancy in an overlapping generations setting. The model implies that without soundly established insurance institutions and farmland rental market and stable off-farm job opportunities, farmland rental market and stable off-farm job opportunities, households with more children are better off under a land redistribution regime and thus favor it. In terms of long-run investment in farmland, redistribution according to demographic changes discourages long-term investment, yet redistribution based on farming failure may mitigate this negative effect. The third essay tries to analyze three aspects of organizational hierarchy: (1) generalists or specialists: which should get to the top? (2) How many agents should get to the top? (3) Can the agents who should be at the top in the optimal hierarchy really get to the top? Using a T-period model with promotion, I finds that the optimal hierarchy form depends on the size of the externality of coordinating multiple assets by generalists. The number of agents at the top depends on the elasticity of the externality of coordinating multiple assets. Finally, promotion opportunity gives agents who should at the top more incentive to exert effort, and thus are more likely to get promoted.
Author : Christoph Wagner
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Total Pages : 116 pages
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Download or read book Three Essays in Applied Microeconomics written by Christoph Wagner and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
