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Essays on machine learning applications in economics : causal inference and prediction
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
in the curriculum adoption application. As an extension to the existing studies on how curriculum materials affect student achievement, my work compares the results of DML, kernel matching, and ordinary least squares (OLS). In my study, the DML estimators avoid...
A study on the trade-off between supervision and wages: an empirical test of efficiency wage theory
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
This dissertation investigates the applicability of the shirking version of efficiency wage models in Korea. Analyses is based on the Survey on Wage Structure in the 1980's and 1990's - using data collected in 1983, 1989, ...
Energy price uncertainty, energy intensity and firm-level investment
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT REQUEST OF AUTHOR.] In this dissertation I estimate the effect of oil price and energy price uncertainty and energy price shocks on firm-level investment. An error correction (ECM) model of capital...
Analysis of residential housing markets in large U.S. metropolitan areas
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
The This paper consists of three essays focusing on the geography of U.S. residential housing markets, the role of housing attributes in the residential housing markets, as well as the housing tenure choices in large metropolitan areas. It conducts...
Forecasting unemployment with spatial correlation
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2005)
Using regional data from Missouri, I compare the forecasting performance of a univariate autoregressive model to another which considers spatial correlation. I build each type of model for each designated area and evaluate their performance...
Three essays on the labor market in China
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
graduates' first jobs. The negative impact of the college expansion on labor outcomes is smaller for older college graduates. Our results are consistent with findings published in the 1970s focusing on the effects of the U.S college expansion. In the third...
Essays on inequality and mobility of Korean households' income and consumption
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)
This dissertation analyzes income and consumption inequality empirically and theoretically using Korean Labor and Income Panel Study (KLIPS). This dissertation consists of three chapters. First two chapters are about ...
The fiscal responsiveness to economic fluctuations
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
In this paper I investigate the pattern of the fiscal responsiveness with economic development and the determinants of the fiscal responsiveness for 79 central governments during 1972 ~ 2007. For the analysis, I estimate ...
Fiscal sustainability in the light of aging trend : finding the patterns among aged OECD countries
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2008)
countries with slow-speed aging trend exhibit fiscal sustainability with decreasing debt-GDP ratios. Third, it concludes that the U.S. has a chance to prepare for future fiscal difficulty, whereas Korea has a high probability that it will suffer from fiscal...
Three essays on monetary and financial economics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2018)
[ACCESS RESTRICTED TO THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI AT AUTHOR'S REQUEST.] This three-chapter dissertation focuses on the research topics in Monetary and Financial Economics. The first paper examines the time-varying impact of U.S. monetary policy...
Three essays on trade gravity model
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2009)
In chapter 1, the gravity models are revisited, for both the "old" one with which McCallum (1995) finds the famous "border puzzle," and the "new" one introduced by Anderson and van Wincoop (2003). We examine the role of ...
Motives for savings and portfolio choice : evidence from micro-data for Japan
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2006)
This study investigates the effects of income risk and liquidity constraints on household portfolio choice and saving behavior using Japanese household-level data (POSFAL) from 1989 to 2003. An integrated analysis for three ...