Browsing 2017 MU dissertations - Freely available online by Thesis Department "Economics (MU)"
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Essays on decision making under uncertainty : Stochastic dominance
(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, ... -
Sector-specific surprise and news shocks /
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)I estimate the decomposition of total factor productivity (TFP) shocks by two sectors: (a) investment and (b) consumption. I also identify sectoral shocks by the timing of shocks realization, surprise shocks (unanticipated) ... -
Two applications of liefecycle models : teachers' retirement under time-varying pension rules and the income-health correlation in PSID /
(University of Missouri--Columbia, 2017)This study uses two structural models to predict public school teachers' retirement decisions and explore the correlations among people's health, occupational choices, and labor income. Extensive literature suggests that ... -
Two essays on the economics of education
(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 ...