This thesis examines U.S. presidential decisions to take risks in countering terrorism. A particular counter-terrorist (CT) option is determined to be risky, or more risky than another, if it has the greatest variance in outcome: if it produces the worst outcome if it fails and …
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This thesis examines the multiple meanings attached to risk by a small group of climbers based in the North of England. The study is anchored, empirically in sustained observational fieldwork, and in-depth interviews with adult subjects (9 females aged 22-77, 14 males aged 20-70…
Though the AIDS epidemic has been spreading through sub-Saharan Africa for over 20 years, HIV prevalence rates in West Africa have augmented much more slowly than rates in East and Southern Africa. This research explores the question of whether differences in HIV prevalence rate…
Across the United States, firefighters take risks every day. Why do these individuals take risks for people they may have never met? While the fire service has centuries of history, it has limited scholarly research and peer-reviewed journals. The study not only adds to the limi…
In Chapter 1, I estimate a heterogeneous firm model on dynamic adverse selection with screening and signaling in public debt markets for privately informed persistent productivity, and quantify the effect of asymmetric information on misallocation of capital and financial liabil…
Adolescence is a developmental period characterized by considerable biological and psychological changes. During adolescence (which is defined by the age range of 13-24 for this study based on the participants that provided data), young people experience rapid increases in physi…