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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, but to better understand...
Essays on machine learning applications in economics : causal inference and prediction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
economics professors' salaries. The dataset used is novel, containing detailed and time-varying research productivity measures and other demographic information of young economics professors from 28 of the top 50 public research universities in the United...
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. However, incorporating...
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 ...