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 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 ...
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 ...
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 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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...