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Essays on decision making under uncertainty : Stochastic dominance
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
Decision making under uncertainty is certainly the most important task of an economics agent and it is often a very difficult one. In most cases, the goal of further analysis of uncertainty is not necessarily to reduce it, ...
Three essays on crime policy and the Bayesian bootstrap
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This dissertation consists of three chapters. In the first chapter, I analyze credible intervals for quantiles constructed using Bayesian bootstrap techniques and show that credible intervals constructed using the ...
Essays on the econometrics of ordinal data
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)
[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8/1/2024] In economics, ordinal variables like general health, mental health, and happiness level play a crucial role. Ordinal data is commonly used in surveys and questionnaires due to its ordered structure. ...
Essays on machine learning applications in economics : causal inference and prediction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This study includes three chapters related to machine learning applications with focus on different empirical topics. The first chapter talks about a new method and its application. The second chapter focuses on young ...
Contributions to the theory and methodology of quantile models with endogeneity
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
In the first chapter, I develop smoothed GMM estimation and inference for overidentified instrumental variables quantile regression (IVQR) and related quantile models. Previous approaches have been limited to exact ...