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Over the past several decades, the cost of healthcare across the globe continued to increase. The projection is for faster growth in all sectors due to the improving economy, the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and the aging United States’ population (i.e., Baby Boomers). This growth…

In this dissertation, I use novel methodologies that incorporate machine learning into causal policy evaluation such as double robust machine learning to study some key issues in Productivity and Finance. In the first chapter, I evaluate the impacts of European public subsidies …

Researchers working in the work-family conflict (WFC) literature have a long history of focusing on how conflict between the work and family domains influences employees and their experiences inside and outside of work (Eby et al., 2005). However, missing from the literature is …

Plate tectonics convectively cools the Earth at present. Debate remains in defining plate tectonics as a dynamic system. What is the primary resistor to plate motions: plates, mantle viscosity, some mixture of the two? Here I shed some light on this debate. First, I quantify the…