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  • The redistributive effects of construction grants resulting from Public Law 92-500 in EPA Region VII 

    Collins, Robert A. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 1975)
    This study investigates the redistributive consequences of federal construction grants made for publicly owned wastewater treatment plants in EPA Region VII. This is accomplished by estimating the proportion of the benefits ...
  • A market study of sealed bid competition for Utah public school lunch milk, 1970-1975 

    Jensen, Halbert K. (University of Missouri--Columbia, 1981)
    This study was designed to determine the influence of various economic factors on sealed bid prices and, accordingly, to serve as a guide for setting these factors to obtain a more competitive price. Traditional concepts ...
  • Highway impacts on Ozark incomes and employment 

    Kuehn, John Allan (University of Missouri--Columbia, 1970)
    Introduction and problem review: Confronted by depressed economic and social conditions of extensive regions within the United States, the Federal Government through its various agencies is waging "war on poverty." Many ...
  • Essays on the econometrics of ordinal data 

    Wu, Qian (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. ...
  • Selected effects of urban mobility 

    Wickman, Michelle (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 

    Xie, Qinhua (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 

    Lee, Heon (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
    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 that when the central bank ...
  • Essays on estimating dynamic discrete choice models: methods and applications 

    Wang, Fangda (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2022)
    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 finite set of actions in each ...
  • Virtual learning in elementary school: a phenomenological study of student engagement 

    Howard, Amber (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 

    Joo, So Hyun (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 

    Wei, Xin (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 

    Qian, Cheng (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 

    An, Yang (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 

    Davila Fadul, Ivan Enrique (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 

    Ahn, Joonhong (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 

    Liu, Zixin (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 

    Liu, Xin (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 

    Kwon, Sanguk (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 

    Hofmann, Lonnie (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 

    Bian, Yong (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 ...

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