Dissertations from 2012
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
Essays on the Evaluation of Land Use Policy: The Effects of Regulatory Protection on Land Use and Social Welfare, Kwaw Senyi Andam
Overcoming the "Do-Gooder Fallacy": Explaining the Adoption of Effectiveness Best Practices in Philanthropic Foundations, Shena Renee Ashley
Feasibility of Proposed Monetary Unions in the Eastern and Southern Africa Region, Steven K. Buigut
Essays on Tax Evasion and Government Spending in Developing Countries, Abel Berhe Embaye
Public School Responses to Charter School Presence, Nevbahar Ertas
The Influence of Organizational Culture on the Implementation of Succession Planning, Lori Powers Fancher
The Impact of Education Decentralization on Education Output: A Cross-Country Study, Eunice Heredia-Ortiz
Essays on the Value of a Statistical Life, Ikuho Kochi
State Children's Health Insurance Program: Participation Decision and Labor Supply Effects, Kyoungwoo Lee
Copycat Theory: Testing for Fiscal Policies Harmonization in the Southern African Coordinating Community (SADC) and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), Christine Ega Mbakile-Moloi
Menopause Transition and Labor Market Outcomes, Mercy Mvundura
A Study to Develop Strategies for Proactive Water-Loss Management, Hyun Jung Park
Effects of Transitional Policies on Labor Market Outcomes Fifteen Years After Transition: The Case of Ukraine and Lithuania, Olga Pavlova
Essays on the Political Economy of Taxation, Raul A. Ponce Rodriguez
Essays in Labor Economics: Alcohol Consumption and Socioeconomic Outcomes, Eric Mensah Sarpong
Essays on Tax Evasion, Edward Batte Sennoga
An Examination of Unintended Consequences of Intergovernmental Equalization Programs, Dmitry V. Shishkin