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Tuberculosis (TB), caused by the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Despite the past century of intensifying control efforts and increasingly effective treatments, TB persists as a threat to global health. TB elimination i…

This dissertation argues that status quo bias in crime location choice has substantial effects on geographic crime patterns. Offenders often re-select prior crime locations when they commit crimes. Mainstream theories argue this is because such locations are objectively more sui…

This research complements and combines market microstructure theory and mechanism design to optimize the market structure of financial markets systematically. We develop an agent-based model featuring near-zero-intelligence traders operating in a call market with a wide range of…