Ozel, Sinan2020-09-1120202020-09-10http://hdl.handle.net/1828/12120This 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 Effects" is in Part I. The first co-authored article "Teachers' Strikes and Standardized Test Scores: Impact on Performance & Participation", is in Part II. The last chapter, Part III, is already published in the journal "Information Economics and Policy" (ISSN: 0167-6245), accessible under the title "The Value of Online Scarcity Signals".enAvailable to the World Wide Webdomestic violencescarcityteacher strikesfsaStandardized Testingintimate partner violenceexpediaThesisPascal Courty and Sinan Ozel. The value of online scarcity signals. Information Economics and Policy, 46:23-40, March 2019. ISSN 0167-6245. doi: 10.1016/j.infoecopol.2018.12.003. URL http://www.sciencedirect. com/science/article/pii/S0167624517301257.