Dissertations from 2014
Institutional Development and Monetary Policy Transmission, Luciana Teagno Lopes
Housing Demand, Commuting Patterns, and Land Use Responses to Public Investments, Chris Mothorpe
Can Victims’ Compensation Reduce Revictimization Risk? Examining the Role of Victims’ Compensation and Satisfaction, Sadie Mummert
Essays In Socio-economic Decision-making, Urmimala Sen
Assessing the Prevalence, Participants, and Predictors of Coproduction: The Case of Atlanta, Georgia, Kelechi Uzochukwu
Interdisciplinarity among Academic Scientists: Individual and Organizational Factors, Fang Xiao
Dissertations from 2013
From Policy to Practice: Implementation of Georgia's Medicaid Family Planning Waiver Program, Sarah Blake
An Examination Of Effort: An Experimental Approach, Alexander P. Brumlik
Essays on the Impact of Aid and Institutions on Income Inequality and Human Welfare, Samphors Khieu
Organ Donation, Trust and Reciprocity, Danyang Li
Three Essays on Fiscal Competition and Public Policy, Yongzheng Liu
The Consequences of Poor Tax Administration: Collections, Growth, and Corruption, Chandler B. McClellan
Victimization of the Elderly: An Application of Lifestyles/Routine Activities Theory, Christina N. Policastro
Essays on Unions, Wages and Performance: Evidence from Latin America, Fernando Rios
Essays in Children's Time Allocation and Age at Primary School Enrollment, Yared Seid
Essays on Formal and Informal Long-Term Health Insurance Markets, Andinet D. Woldemichael
Dissertations from 2012
Fiscal Stress in the U.S. States: An Analysis of Measures and Responses, Sarah B. Arnett
Public Participation in Science and Technology Policy: Consensus Conferences and Social Inclusion, Ravtosh Bal
Oil and Gas Production: An Empirical Investigation of the Common Pool, Andrew T. Balthrop
Essays on Uncertainty in Public Economics and Cooperative Bargaining, Omer F. Baris
The Difficult Decision to Devalue a Currency, Menna Bizuneh
Three Essays on the Formation and Finance of Local Governments, Spencer T. Brien
Essays on Foreign Aid, Government Spending and Tax Effort, Leanora A. Brown
A New Look at the ‘Old View’: Endogenous Discounting, Taxation, and Corporate Financial Decisions, Robert D. Buschman
Essays on PhD Output at U.S. Undergraduate Institutions, Erin Nicole Coffman
Strategic Planning in Local Government: Is the Promise of Performance a Reality?, Lauren M. Edwards
Public Financing of Risky Early-Stage Technology, Reynold V. Galope
Essays on Social Interaction and Urban Outcomes, Zackary B. Hawley
Essays on Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Policy Design and Evaluation, Juan Jose Miranda Montero
A New Approach to Estimate the Incidence of the Corporate Income Tax, Harold A. Vasquez-Ruiz
Local Labor Market Scale, Search Duration, and Re-Employment Match Quality for U.S. Displaced Workers, Kelly R. Wilkin
Dissertations from 2011
Studies on the Effects of Sympathy and Religious Education on Income Redistribution Preferences, Charitable Donations, and Law-Abiding Behavior, Roberta D. Calvet
Essays on Labor Economics and Fiscal Decentralization, Gustavo J. Canavire-Bacarreza
Essays on Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth, Tamoya A. L. Christie
The Effects of Gifted Programming on Student Achievement: Differential Results by Race/Ethnicity and Income, Kelley M. Dean
Nonprofit and Foundation Behavior in Competitive Markets for Grants, Lewis H. Faulk
What Does It Take To Motivate Better Performance and Productivity in the Federal Workplace? Ask the Employees., Sue Ann Frank
Essays on the Evaluation of Environmental Programs, Merlin M. Hanauer
Towards a theory of Clergy Executive Compensation, Nicholas L B Harvey
The Effects of Outside Income on Household Behavior: The Case of Remittances in Jamaica, Andrew V. Stephenson
Sustainable Governance and Management of Defined Benefit Plans in the Public Sector: Lessons From the Turbulent Decade of 2000-2009, Rayna L. Stoycheva
Sub-National Borrowing, Is It Really a Danger?, Violeta Vulovic
The Determinants of Private Contributions and Government Grants to Nonprofit Organizations, Amanda Lori Wilsker
Channels of Adjustment in Labor Markets: The 2007-2009 Federal Minimum Wage Increase, Tetyana Zelenska
Dissertations from 2010
Aspects of Tax Spillovers: Is There a "Worldwide" Tax Burden?, Sandeep Bhattacharya
Government Funding and INGO Autonomy: From Resource Dependence and Tool Choice Perspectives, Grace L. Chikoto
Essays in Health Economics: A Focus on the Built Environment, Thomas James Christian
The Effects of Rent Assignment on Long-Lived Public Goods in Exhaustible Resource Economies, Musharraf R. Cyan
Three Essays on the Search for Economic Efficiency, Jason J. Delaney
Essays on Personal Income Taxation and Income Inequality, Denvil R. Duncan
Within Classroom Peer Effects and Tracking: Assessing the Impact of Classroom Peer Variation and Ability Tracking with Disaggregated High School Data, C Kevin Fortner
Essays on Optimal Jurisdictional Size for Local Service Delivery, Juan L. Gomez
Experiments on Redistribution, Trust, and Entitlements, Daniel T. Hall
Exploring Environmental Service Auctions, William B. Holmes
Essays in Experimental and Environmental Economics, Sarah Jacobson
Essays on Agglomeration Trends in the U.S. Manufacturing Industries, 1988-2003, Abdullah Mahbuzzaman Khan
The Impact of Performance Ratings on Federal Personnel Decisions, Seong Soo Oh
The Indirect Effects of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs: An Empirical Analysis of Familias En Accion, Monica P. Ospina
A Study of the Impact of Decentralization on Access to Service Delivery, Pablo A. Saavedra
Two Essays on Public Economics: The Consequences of Fiscal Decentralization on Poverty and Inequality, and The Second Best Solution to The Public Expenditures’ Problem, Cristian F. Sepulveda
Essays on the Effects of Early Childhood Malnutrition, Family Preferences and Personal Choices on Child Health and Schooling, Solomon T. Tesfu
Essays on Crime and Tax Evasion, Sean C. Turner
Dissertations from 2009
The Effect of Changes in Maternity Leave Policy on Labor Market Outcomes for Females in Brazil, Viviane Maria Bastos de Malafaia
Essays on the Aggregate Burden of Alcohol Abuse, Resul Cesur
Federal and State Environmental Policy: Environmental Federalism, Strategic Interaction, and Constituent Interest, Benjamin Andrew Chupp
An Economic Analysis of Prison Labor, Robynn Joyce Afi Cox
New Public Management and Governance Collide: Federal-Level Performance Measurement in Networked Public Management Networks, Amy S. DeGroff
Amenity Effect or Supply Effect? Metropolitan Amenities and their Interaction with Housing Supply, Kwame N. Donaldson
A Comparative Study of Fiscal Decentralization in China and India, Yinghua Jin
Uses and Nonuses of Patented Inventions, Taehyun Jung
Electoral Manipulations, Economic Policies and Voting Behavior in India, Harini Letha Kannan
Mitigating and Preparing for Disasters: A Survey of Memphis Organizations, Abdul-Akeem Ademola Sadiq
Evaluation of Decentralization Outcomes in Indonesia: Analysis of Health and Education Sectors, Rentanida Renata Simatupang
Essays on Interarea Wage Determination, John V. Winters
Individual Income Tax in Indonesia: Behavioral Response, Incidence, and the Distribution of Income Tax Burden, Thalyta Ernandya Yuwono
Dissertations from 2008
Estimating the Effect of Penalties on Regulatory Compliance, Vid Adrison
The Persistence of Spatial Mismatch: The Determinants of Moving Decision Among Low-Income Households, Bulent Anil
Government Fragmentation and the Attainment of Regional Environmental Quality, Peter S. Bluestone
Three Essays in Public Finance, Shiyuan Chen
Estimating the Firm’s Demand for Human Resource Management Practices, Benjamin Israel Miller
The Money-Moving Syndrome and the Effectiveness of Foreign Aid, Nara Françoise Kamo Monkam
Housing Tenure, Property Rights, and Urban Development in Developing Countries, Ignacio Antonio Navarro
Consumer Adoption of Bandwidth Intensive Applications and Its Impacts on Broadband Adoption, Peter Helekiah Oburu
Evaluation of Emergency Response: Humanitarian Aid Agencies and Evaluation Influence, Monica LaBelle Oliver
International Research Collaboration, Research Team Performance, and Scientific and Technological Capabilities in Colombia: A Bottom-Up Perspective, Gonzalo Ordonez-Matamoros
Government Grants, Crowding Out Theory and American Based International Non-Governmental Organizations, King Odhiambo Owalla
Urbanization and Poverty Reduction Outcomes, Panupong Panudulkitti
Essays on Political and Fiscal Decentralization, Riatu M. Qibthiyyah
Pension Reform and Retirement Incentives: Evidence from Austria, Roman Raab
Home Rule, Selectivity, and Overlapping Jurisdictions: Effects on State and Local Government Size, Robert Francis Salvino
The Effects of Networks on Institution Selection by Foreign Doctoral Students in the U.S., Zeynep Esra Tanyildiz
Financial Intermediation and Economic Growth: Bank Credit Maturity and Its Determinants, Nikola Tasic
Firm Recruitment Competition among States, Michael T. Tasto
Essays on Corruption and Preferences, Angelino Casio Viceisza
Designing Pension Programs to Strengthen Formal Labor Markets in Developing Countries: The Case of Indonesia, Muliadi Widjaja
Dissertations from 2007
Essays on Ricardian Equivalence, Artidiatun Adji
Labor Market Outcomes and Welfare Participation of Teen Mothers: Evidence from Georgia, Djesika Djatugbe Amendah