This dissertation includes three essays in economic history and applied microeconomics. In the first chapter, I investigate the intergenerational effects of a negative shock in wealth for African Americans by examining the failure of the Freedman's Bank. I find that children of …
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Over the last two decades, implementation of membrane bioreactors (MBRs) has increased due to their superior effluent quality and low plant footprint. However, they are still viewed as a high-cost option, both with regards to capital and operating expenditure (capex and opex). T…
Although the contribution of the small enterprise to a nation’s economy, job creation and innovation is well known, comparatively little is understood on how small firms behave strategically and how the more common patterns of strategic behaviour relate to different levels of or…
The purpose of this qualitative phenomenological study was to explore technology startup failure in Israel and to identify themes that might indicate the reasons for the low rate of survival. A 2010 report published by Ministry of Industry and Trade in Israel (MITI) showed that …
Collections of Puccinia triticina with virulence to durum wheat from Argentina, Chile, Ethiopia, France, Mexico, Spain, and the USA, and a group of representative races of P. triticina from bread wheat from the USA, were tested for virulence phenotypes on 35 Thatcher differentia…
This study is an inquiry into the lexical meanings of terms used to refer to persons at different stages of the human life cycle in the Hebrew Bible. The goal is not merely to define such terms in the traditional manner but to understand them from the perspective of the semantic…