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This paper examines the shopping labor division and the differences in shopping behaviors between men and women residing in the same household using a novel dataset conta [...]
2024-08 |
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In a civil legal case, the plaintiff usually has to prove their case at a “more likely than not” standard (>50%) in order to win their claim. Legal claims typicall [...]
2024-03 |
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For the dissertation, we propose studying efficiently learning the optimal dynamic mechanism when the agents' valuations can be characterized by a Markov Decision Process [...]
2024-03 |
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This dissertation consists of two essays studying banking and (racial) inequality. Its first part is a short essay, titled ``Racial Disparities in the U.S. Mortgage Marke [...]
2024-03 |
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Think back to the last person you met or interacted with. What characteristics did you notice about them? In particular, did they seem self-aware, or not? In my disserta [...]
2023-12 |
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We consider problems related to design and analysis of flexible server systems. On the analysis side, we study the stability properties of the X-model under parameter agn [...]
2023-12 |
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This dissertation examines the performance analysis and design of multi-class multi-server bipartite queueing systems under a FCFS-ALIS service discipline. The class of q [...]
2023-08 |
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In this dissertation, Essay 1 explores whether the addition of information atypical to choice architecture can increase preference consistency and Essay 2 explores the po [...]
2023-08 |
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We present Operations Management work on overcoming healthcare delivery challenges in remote settings in two chapters. We begin with work on inventory management of a las [...]
2023-08 |
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This paper studies heterogeneity in consumer myopia and its role in creating a gap in financing cost across consumers in consumer credit markets. Using a unique data set [...]
2023-08 |
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This thesis consists of three papers in the field of learning, in operational settings.
The first paper (Chapter 2) is titled Thompson Sampling for Infinite-Horizon Dis [...]
2023-08 |
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The ability to search is an essential cognitive skill that underlies many human activities, from survival in primordial environments to finding good deals in modern econo [...]
2023-08 |
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Narratives on politically contentious topics, such as racism and gun violence, trigger polarizing attitudes that impede equitable policy solutions while exacerbating patt [...]
2023-08 |
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Do safety nets affect investment? Combining a natural experiment that gives guaranteed income to landowning farmers in India with transaction-level bank data and loan-lev [...]
2023-06 |
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This dissertation explores why and how firms partner with grassroots nonprofits—politically disadvantaged charitable foundations, social services organizations, and adv [...]
2023-06 |
Sociology; Business; Booth School of Business Dissertations |
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I study the origin and pricing of climate policy uncertainty. Using tools from natural language processing, I construct a novel dataset of timestamped climate policy anno [...]
2023-06 |
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This dissertation seeks to understand the ways in which candidates’ circumstances affect the outcomes of decisions about who to reward and give opportunity to. Across t [...]
2023-06 |
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In my dissertation research, I explore how, even without full comprehension, linguistic cues can impact people’s decision-making. People encounter language cues [...]
2023-06 |
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I estimate the annual local government spending multiplier to range from 2.22 to 0.72 and the accumulated multiplier, which is the total increase of local output per 1 RM [...]
2023-06 |
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The strength of the Bayesian paradigm lies in its flexibility through hierarchical modeling and its ability to provide coherent uncertainty quantification. However, the c [...]
2023-06 |
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Using new high-frequency rent data for apartments in Chicago, this paper documents the origin of rent stickiness and its implications for income distribution in the renta [...]
2023-06 |
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This dissertation studies several different optimization problems, and consists of five chapters. In Chapter 1, we consider a multiperiod binary Knapsack problem, along w [...]
2023-06 |
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I find that the causal effect of subjective growth expectations on asset prices is far smaller than standard models suggest. To quantify this causal effect, I construct a [...]
2023-06 |
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External users of financial reporting often rely on industry classification providers to reduce information processing costs. I study the economic consequences of capital [...]
2023-06 |
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I study whether firms use corporate social responsibility ("CSR") activity to strengthen relationships with senators who prioritize CSR policy areas. I predict [...]
2023-06 |
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