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Obesity has been identified as a significant risk factor for chronic diseases, contributing to health disparities in minority and vulnerable populations. Though research has identified an increased risk for obesity in the Hispanic immigrant population, there is little or no rese…

I develop and estimate a forward-looking structural model of firm entry, exit, and output supply decisions. The model is novel because it incorporates estimates of entry costs and scrap values. It is based on the discrete decision of a firm to participate in a market and the con…

This dissertation investigates the effects of foreign direct investment (FDI) and international trade on firm level decisions and examines the effect of policy changes on aggregate productivity and welfare in open economies. The first two chapters build an open economy model of …

This dissertation consists of three chapters on individual decision making in asset markets and subjective assessment of health status. The first chapter studies price convergence in asset markets with indefinite duration induced by existence of bankruptcy risk. By introducing i…

Panel verileri incelemek için genellikle sabit katsayılı modeller tahmin edilmektedir. Sabit katsayılı panel veri modelleri olan sabit etkili ve tesadüfi etkili modellerde, birim ve/veya zaman etkisi sabit parametre üzerinde incelenebilmesine rağmen tüm birimler ortak eğim param…

This dissertation examines the history of Muslim migration and settlement in Accra, the colonial capital of the Gold Coast, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It explores the social history of a population movement to Accra during the initial years of Brit…

This thesis focuses on how the design of public insurance policies entails distributional consequences that impact macroeconomic aggregates, inequality, and welfare.

Many cod stocks have been described as metapopulations, each containing multiple semi-discrete spawning groups with limited connectivity between them. Reproductive isolation leads to independent and asynchronous demographics among sub-populations adapted to different habitats, w…

The thesis studies different forms of heterogeneity and their effect on financial markets. The first chapter deals with a conflict that is typically neglected in the corporate finance literature. Shareholders want to maximize their portfolio value and not any specific firm value…

From the idea of efficiency raised by Koopmans in 1951, and the panel data first introduced into the efficiency analysis by Pitt and Lee (1981) and Schmidt and Sickles (1984), the techniques of stochastic frontier analysis are fast developed and the applications of stochastic fr…