• The effects of economic and financial coursework on education attainment and EITC claims in the United States: 1998-2019 

  Hunt, Jacob J. S (2021-12-17)

  This paper examines the effects of offered and required coursework covering financial and economic topics in U.S. high schools over the past 20 years. Using a difference-in-differences framework, I look at the effects of ...
• Discrimination in the market for short term rentals: evidence from Airbnb 

  Fairley, Katherine M. (2021-08-24)

  Discrimination against people of colour in the hospitality, labour, and housing markets has been causing harm throughout the history of the United States. Examining the discrepancy in outcomes for marginalized Airbnb hosts ...
• Essays in agricultural business risk management 

  Liu, Xuan (2021-08-16)

  Insurance has been considered as a useful tool for farmers to mitigate income volatility. However, there remain concerns that insurance may distort crop production decisions. Positive mathematical programming (PMP) models ...
• Three studies in empirical applications of microeconomic theory 

  Ozel, Sinan (2020-09-10)

  This dissertation is comprised of three stand-alone articles, two of them co-authored, and one solo. The solo article, "Increases in Victim Mortality Rates in the Aftermath of Mandatory Arrest Laws: A Study in Unintended ...
• Regression discontinuity design with unknown cutoff: cutoff detection & effect estimation 

  Khan Tanu, Tanvir Ahmed (2020-08-27)

  Regression discontinuity designs are increasingly popular quasi-experimental research designs among applied econometricians desiring to make causal inferences on the local effect of a treatment, intervention, or policy. ...
• Essays on capital flows and capital controls 

  Tseng, Po-Hsin (2020-05-27)

  This dissertation comprises four main chapters that examine issues surrounding capital flows and capital controls. Chapter 1 outlines the dissertation. Chapter 2 discusses several key themes in the literature on capital ...
• Essays on foreign aid and macro-economic performance of Sub-Saharan African countries 

  Saleh, Omar (2019-05-01)

  Foreign aid is a major flow of income into sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries, averaging roughly 12% of GDP over the last four decades. Yet, SSA countries are characterized by very low per capita output, low human capital ...
• The Dust Bowl and American elections 

  Alam, M Injamam (2018-08-31)

  This paper examines the American Dust Bowl to understand the political impacts of the catastrophe which devastated the American Plains during the 1930s. I use county-level panel analysis to analyze whether the Dust Bowl ...
• The effect of deposit insurance on the Canadian banking system 

  Hotsko, Nicholas (2018-06-08)

  This paper empirically estimates the impact of the deposit insurance coverage changes on deposit levels and growth. The analysis is based on a Canadian dataset from a variety of sources. It covers quarterly data on deposits ...
• CPU product line lifecycles: econometric duration analysis using parametric and non-parametric estimators 

  Fisher, Mischa (2018-04-30)

  This thesis provides a comprehensive history of the statistical background and uses of survival analysis, and then applies econometric duration analysis to examine the lifecycles of product lines within the microprocessor ...
• A time series analysis of price formation in power markets 

  Khan, Ibrahim (2018-03-14)

  This study examines price formation in one of the largest wholesale electricity markets in the world: the Pennsylvania Jersey Maryland Interconnection, which serves 13 states and the District of Columbia with over 60 ...
• Bivariate extreme value analysis of commodity prices 

  Joyce, Matthew (2017-04-21)

  The crude oil, natural gas, and electricity markets are among the most widely traded and talked about commodity markets across the world. Over the past two decades each commodity has seen price volatility due to political, ...
• Choosing a data frequency to forecast the quarterly yen-dollar exchange rate 

  Cann, Benjamin (2016-10-03)

  Potentially valuable information about the underlying data generating process of a dependent variable is often lost when an independent variable is transformed to fit into the same sampling frequency as a dependent variable. ...
• On estimating variances for Gini coefficients with complex surveys: theory and application 

  Hoque, Ahmed (2016-09-29)

  Obtaining variances for the plug-in estimator of the Gini coefficient for inequality has preoccupied researchers for decades with the proposed analytic formulae often being regarded as being too cumbersome to apply, as ...
• Non-global regression modelling 

  Huang, Yunkai (2016-06-21)

  In this dissertation, a new non-global regression model - the partial linear threshold regression model (PLTRM) - is proposed. Various issues related to the PLTRM are discussed. In the first main section of the ...
• Regional differences in Canadian labour dynamics : a broad macroeconometric investigation 

  Chicoine, Alisha (2016-01-06)

  We examine the dynamics of Canadian labour markets using data from the Survey of Employment, Payroll, and Hours and the Labour Force Survey from Statistics Canada from 1961-2014. Using univariate, and multivariate Vector ...
• Child labour and school attendance in Bangladesh: The impact of individual, parental and household factors on human capital development 

  Saqib, Najmus (2015-12-21)

  Household survey data collected primarily from rural Bangladesh (Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 2005-2006) is utilized in this paper to identify the important individual, household and district-level factors that influence ...
• Nowcasting by the BSTS-U-MIDAS Model 

  Duan, Jun (2015-09-23)

  Using high frequency data for forecasting or nowcasting, we have to deal with three major problems: the mixed frequency problem, the high dimensionality (fat re- gression, parameter proliferation) problem, and the ...
• Essays on education and child labor in developing countries 

  Abdelfattah, Noha (2015-09-14)

  Child labor can affect human capital investment of children, as the daily available time is limited and an increase in time devoted to child labor reduces the available time for investment in human capital. The tradeoff ...
• The Impact of Changes in the AgriStability Program on Crop Activities: A Farm Modeling Approach 

  Liu, Xuan (2015-04-28)

  The objective of this thesis is to examine the impacts of changes in Canada’s AgriStability program on crop allocation, particularly the change in the payment trigger associated with the shift from Growing Forward (GF) to ...

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