RSS 1.0Economics electronic theses and dissertations (MU)
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Selected effects of urban mobility
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/1/2024] This dissertation presents four essays characterizing urban mobility through cellphone location data. Chapter 1 surveys the recent literature using location data to understand urban interactions ... -
Essays on money and credit
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2023)When at least some transactions are anonymous and there is missing a publicly available record keeping device, individuals who sell goods cannot force buyers to payback the debt. Thus, money and collateralized credit are ... -
Essays on money and banking: a search-theoretic approach
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 8/1/2023] My dissertation studies the role of banking in the monetary transmission. In the first chapter, I develop a monetary-search model where the money multiplier is endogenously determined. I show ... -
Essays on estimating dynamic discrete choice models: methods and applications
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)[EMBARGOED UNTIL 5/31/2023] Estimating dynamic discrete choice models (DDCM) is a common task in many disciplines, including various fields of economics. In a typical DDCM a forwardlooking decision-maker chooses from a ... -
Virtual learning in elementary school: a phenomenological study of student engagement
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)The Covid-19 pandemic necessitated an unprecedented shift to virtual learning in America. It is unlikely that this method of instruction will end when it is safe to return to in-person instruction, even though there is ... -
Household finance, housing, and monetary policy
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Household finance has been known to be a challenging research area in economics due to difficulties in measuring household behavior and the numerous unpredictable conditions each household faces, such as borrowing constraints ... -
Essays on early childhood education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)Early childhood educations plays a fundamental role in human capital development. This dissertation studies skills development during early childhood. Chapter 1 focuses on early childhood intervention from birth to age 3. ... -
Essays on economics of higher education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)This dissertation consists of three chapters. In Chapter 1, We use rich administrative microdata from Missouri to examine the potential to expand and diversify the production of STEM degrees at universities by tapping into ... -
Three essays on economics of education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2020)This dissertation includes three chapters. In Chapter 1, I estimate the effects of gender and race/ethnicity matching between students and high school math and science teachers on students' STEM enrollment and completion ... -
Effects of the fiscal policy on macroeconomic outcomes
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)The dissertation consists in three chapters addressing the effects of fiscal policy on macroeconomic outcomes. In the first chapter, I take advantage of the scarcity of evidence on the effects of public spending on GDP ... -
Essays on intergenerational transmission in Korea
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)This dissertation studies the effects of parents' resources on children's labor market outcomes in Korea. The educational structure in Korea has changed substantially with rapid economic growth over the last several decades. ... -
Three essays on the labor market in China
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)This dissertation consists of three chapters studying the impact of different policies in China on its labor market. In particular, we consider the impact of the Cultural Revolution on intergenerational mobility, the impact ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 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 ... -
Essays in policy evaluation and labor economics
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2021)This dissertation contains three chapters. The first chapter evaluates the effect of a gun control act in California. State legislators in the U.S. are striving to curb gun violence. A common approach is to extend the ... -
Three essays on economics of higher education
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)This dissertation consists of three chapters. In Chapter 1, we use data from the 2015-16 academic year to document faculty representation and wage gaps by race/ethnicity and gender in six fields at 40 selective, public ... -
Comparisons and extensions of reduced form and structural approaches to retirement decision of Missouri public school teachers
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)There have been growing calls to reform teachers' pension systems. Designing of pension reforms requires modeling retirement decisions first. My thesis compares different models of teachers' retirement decisions. To further ... -
Empirical analyses on the effects of economic incentives on teacher retention and teacher quality
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2019)This study conducts empirical analysis on the effects of economic incentives on retaining teachers, both in the late-career and early-career, and improving teacher quality in public schools. The first chapter analyzes ...