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An Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research and Intervention Strategy Applied to the Problem of Pediatric Asthma in Kansas City
(2020)
This dissertation presents a multilevel health disparities research strategy using pediatric asthma in Kansas City as a case study. The first chapter introduces the problem of pediatric asthma in Kansas City and the ...
Money, Work, and Mass Extinction: Transformational Degrowth and the Job Guarantee
(2020)
This dissertation is composed of three independent essays. Each essay traces social and ecological crises to capitalist institutions and proposes how a job guarantee (JG) can be adapted to resolve them in the context of ...
Human Development As the Expansion of Work Capability: An Examination of Vietnam
(2020)
This dissertation aims to enhance the application of Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach by including work capability in the current assessment of human development. Development theorists have long overlooked the role of ...
Three Essays on China's Political Economy, Environmental Policy, and Green Job Guarantee
(2020)
This dissertation contributes to the study of the Chinese economy by elaborating China’s alternative economic system, examining the evolution of Chinese environmental policies, and proposing a Chinese Green Job Guarantee. ...
Labor Market Outcomes and Employment Policy
(2020)
The first chapter contains an empirical analysis of labor market outcomes. Using the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages microdata, individual labor market experiences are tracked over time. Not only is the employment ...
Income Inequality, Household Borrowing, and the Business Cycle
(2020)
Over the thirty years preceding 2008, the United States has experienced increasing income inequality while transitioning to a consumption-led economy. This dissertation investigates the foundations of the 2008 recession ...
The Systemic Risk of Consolidation in the Cloud Computing Industry
(2021)
The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of consolidation within the
cloud computing industry related to the reliability and availability of computing
resources. This dissertation begins by assessing the scale ...
The Logic of Violent Conflicts in DR Congo: A Nested-Analysis Approach to the Understanding of Civil War in Sub-Saharan Africa
(2020)
Violent conflicts have hampered Congo’s development in several ways. Some of the deadliest and longest-running wars in post-colonial Africa happened in Congo. Like many others in sub-Saharan Africa, Congo’s civil wars are ...
Pediatric Lead Poisoning and The Built Environment in Kansas City, Missouri 2000-2013
(2021)
This study examines relationships between pediatric lead poisoning and the built environment. Focusing on Kansas City, Missouri between the years 2000 and 2013 this dissertation informs policy options and identifies ...