• Essays on decision making under uncertainty : Stochastic dominance 

    Zhuo, Longhao (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, ...
  • Two essays on the economics of education 

    Li, Xiang (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)
    In this study I focus on two related topics on the economics of education: one is the teacher labor market and the other is factors affecting student academic achievement. Chapter 1 empirically test the effect of state ...