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According to the theory of tournaments prizes encourage greater effort and affect tournament selection. Increasing the difference between prizes increases effort and induces contestants to self-sort into separate tournaments based on their ability. Increasing the absolute level …

A number of alternatives were considered to keep pecan processing economically competitive and sustainable. The industry needed a low risk evaluation technique for testing new high capital plant configurations. A simulation model was developed using the AweSimTM simulation syste…

Political and religious identities are tightly interwined in the U.S. today. Political attachments causally affect decisions to join and leave organized religion. While the effect of politics on broad religious affiliation is well-documented, the effect on churchgoers' decisions…

Migration is a basic adaptation method to inhospitable environments and has large economic consequences for the migrants themselves and for the economy as a whole. I create new datasets using individual-level census data and county-level drought conditions to study how the worst…