Browsing by Author "Kuruc, Kevin"
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3 Essays in Local Public Finance through Housing and Education
Norwood, Brent (2020-12-18)In the first chapter, we investigate the relationship between student test scores and discipline outcomes in Texas public schools and whether or not schools participated in the Universal Free Breakfast Program (UFB). Eating ... -
Essays in development economics
Das, Saini (2021-08-05)My dissertation chapters study the impact of environmental factors on outcomes of human functioning. The first chapter studies the impact of heat stress during a primary school leaving exam in Indonesia on outcomes in ... -
Non-market adaptations to climate change and recreational policy evaluation: three essays in environmental and applied microeconomics
O'Connor, Sean (2021-05-14)The first chapter examines the role of non-market behavioral adaptation to climate change in the United States for the case of outdoor leisure with a novel estimation procedure that accounts for both short-run weather and ... -
The Political Economy of Demilitarization
Mayberry, Anthony (2022-05-13)This dissertation studies the economic implications of demilitarization. My primary contributions include: (1) defining demilitarization statistically and creating a novel dataset of military transitions, (2) empirically ... -
Three Essays in Applied Macroeconomics and Financial Economics
Tayebi, Amir (2022-07-28)The first chapter studies the relationship between democratization and production of knowledge. Using bibliographic and patents data, we show that there is a positive and strong impact of democratization on the formation ... -
Three Essays on Economic Development in Developing Countries
Xu, Zhengang (2021-08-05)Chapter 1: This paper studies the economic impact of president Xi Jinping’s Eight Regulations of Austerity and coordinated anti-corruption campaign. Specifically, I examine the effects of this campaign on the pattern of ...