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Academic Cheating and Workload Intensity: Theory and Simulations
In this project, I investigate a particular model of punishment featured by some honor codes -- a single sanction. Under a single-sanction honor code, the student judiciary must expel any student found guilty of academic ... -
Are Board Gender Quotas Effective in the United States? Evidence from the California Senate Bill 826 (thesis)
This paper uses difference in difference and triple difference models to assess the relationship between gender quota mandates and firm performance. I use data from Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), which provides ... -
Automation and Family: Marriage, Divorce, and Fertility Rates (thesis)
I exploit variation in the job composition of US local labor markets to determine how automation affects familial outcomes from 1980 to 2019 and look at employment, marriage, divorce, and fertility rates as outcomes. ... -
Do Beer Taxes Affect Birth Rates Among Teens and Young Women in the United States? (thesis)
Alcohol abuse and underage drinking in the United States lead to many adverse outcomes, including unintended pregnancy. One way to reduce alcohol abuse – and therefore its negative outcomes – is to raise the price of beer ... -
Do Goods and Financial Market Frictions Explain the Feldstein-Horioka Puzzle? (thesis)
Feldstein and Horioka (1980) argue that in a world of perfect capital mobility, if one regressed investment on savings, the coefficient would be 0. When they found coefficients of between 0.87 and 0.91, they concluded that ... -
Does Exposure to Media Shape Perceptions of Corruption? Evidence from Post-Socialist Countries (thesis)
This paper empirically assesses the effect of exposure to media on individuals' perceptions of corruption, taking into account the heterogeneous effects of the extent of state control of media. Perceptions of corruption ... -
The Effect of Preference for Sons over Daughters on Women's Agency and Empowerment Within a Household (thesis)
While studies have shown how son preference negatively affects life outcomes of both born and unborn daughters, there is limited research examining how it, in turn, affects women who do not give birth to the desired number ... -
The Effect of Social Support on Prenatal Smoking in Romania (thesis)
Smoking is one of few controllable risk factors for pregnancy and it is associated with poor health outcomes for mothers and children. While prenatal smoking is now low in many places, Eastern European countries continue ... -
The Effects of the Bracero Program (1942-1964) on Educational Attainment, Marriage, and Divorce in Mexico (thesis)
In this paper, I examine the effects of the Bracero program, which brought Mexican workers into the United States on temporary guest worker visas from 1942 through 1964. I build on Kosack (2019) which focuses on the effects ... -
Energy Boom to Doom: The Impact of Fracking on Deaths of Despair (thesis)
Since 1999, 'deaths of despair' -- deaths from drug overdoses, alcoholic liver disease, liver cirrhosis, and suicide -- have driven increases in mortality for middle-age white Americans (Case and Deaton 2017). While the ... -
Examining the Mechanisms by which Women's Agency Affects Environmental Health: A Structural Equations Modeling Approach (thesis)
Though previous authors have consistently reported a positive relationship between women's agency and environmental health, a causal relationship between the two variables has yet to be identified due to the confounding ... -
Goodbye Lenin, Hello Murat? The Effect of Communism on Individual Attitudes Toward Immigration (thesis)
This paper argues conceptually and demonstrates empirically that individual attitudes toward immigration are deeply affected by a country's politico-economic legacy. Drawing on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and ... -
Got Milk? Milk Pasteurization and Mortality: 1900-1924 (thesis)
In this paper, I analyze the impact of mandatory milk pasteurization in 38 large U.S. cities on five subsequent mortality rates: the mortality rate from diarrhea and enteritis for children under the age of two and the ... -
The Great Migration and Education: How African American Migrant Flows Impacted Northern Cities' Finance Decisions (thesis)
Ethnic fragmentation influences local preferences and the provision of public goods, such as education. I examine the effect of changes in racial composition for Northern and Western cities between 1940 and 1970 on city ... -
Immigration, Wages, & Ethnicity: An examination of immigration's effect on the wages of native Hispanic workers
Current literature is mixed on immigration’s effect on native wages in the United States. Some researchers find positive wage effects, while others find mixed or negative effects. The lack of consensus is due to variance ... -
A Machine Learning Approach to Stock Selection using Technical Analysis (thesis)
This thesis introduces a novel machine learning framework for stock selection that only uses technical indicators and chart patterns as inputs. In contrast to other papers, the machine learning model first employs a recursive ... -
Migration and Poverty in the Post-Communist Countries of Europe and Central Asia
Although most research studying the effects of migration on poverty tend to focus on Latin American and Asian emigration, I focus my study entirely on emigration from post-communist countries. Most studies also tend to ... -
The Misuse of Altruism: An Ethical Analysis of Volunteer Tourism
In the following paper, I have limited my study to a theoretical and ethical analysis of the volunteer tourist business model. The aim of the paper is to study the effectiveness of the volunteer tourist industry against ... -
Mothers Matter: Mother's Commitment to Children's Educational Outcomes in Ghana (thesis)
In Ghana, with rates of economic inequality increasing, the government has made numerous strides to combat the socioeconomic, gender, and locational discrepancies of educational enrollment and completion to develop into a ... -
Pleasure and Pain: The Connection Between Opioid Prescriptions and Social Security Disability Insurance in the U.S.
I examine the connection between prescription opioid use and Social Security Disability Insurance in the United States. Previous research has found that a correlation exists between opioids and disability rates, but little ...