This thesis investigates the comparative effectiveness of two large language model (LLM) deployment paradigms—zero-shot inference via commercial APIs and supervised fine- [...]

This study examines how labor markets adjust to international trade shocks in recent decades, with a particular focus on the China trade shock that has fundamentally resh [...]

This paper quantifies the welfare implications of adopting an Automated Market Maker (AMM) in place of the simultaneous time-delimited double auction used in the Transact [...]

During the post-COVID volatility regime, many traditional and machine-learning asset pricing models failed to provide stable explanations of return drivers. Shifts in fac [...]

Motivation: As the United States becomes increasingly diverse through immigration, understanding how demographic change affects community solidarity is a critical policy [...]

Building on research that highlights the role of governance, institutional, and network structures in shaping global value chains (Gereffi et al., 2005; Coe & Yeung, [...]

This study integrates visual creative tasks with artificial intelligence techniques to study the flexibility pathway proposed by the dual pathway to creativity model. Acc [...]

Political elites rarely advance by moving up a single, well defined ladder; instead they accumulate experience across a variety of posts, creating defacto career tracks. [...]

Recent advances in word embedding and digitized text have reinvigorated macro-historical cultural analysis based on empirical data. However, static word2vec embedding, a [...]

This thesis conducted a longitudinal analysis examining the evolution of public and media perceptions towards Large Language Models (LLMs) from December 2022 to October 2 [...]

This study examines the relationship between neighborhood informality and crime rates in South Africa, where rapid urbanization has led to criminal organizations stepping [...]

This study explores the influence of integrating macro-built environment data, micro-level subjective and objective street environment perceptions, socioeconomic demogra [...]

Dating apps shape romantic opportunities but remain inaccessible to researchers due to commercial secrecy and privacy concerns. We developed an alternative approach using [...]

The rapid proliferation of misinformation in the digital age poses significant challenges to democratic processes, particularly in multilingual and multicultural societie [...]

Physical appearance, particularly facial attractiveness, plays a significant but context- sensitive role in workplace evaluations. While the “what is beautiful is good” s [...]

Urban Green Space (UGS) plays an important role in the urban environment. This study compares the predictive power of two types of UGS measurements — park proximity and N [...]

This study investigates the evolving portrayals of women in Chinese state-owned media through a computational analysis of the People’s Daily corpus from 1940s to 2000s. C [...]

China’s Three-Child Policy, announced in 2021, represents the most recent effort by the Chinese government to address the country’s prolonged low fertility rate and aging [...]

Online mutual support communities provide vital spaces for individuals to seek guidance, share experiences, and engage in collective discourse. This study examines engage [...]

Traffic fatalities are understood to be a pressing cause of fatality in the United States, but the fundamental causes of inequities in their distribution are poorly under [...]

This study examines whether technical efficiency in U.S. community banks is shaped by spatial spillovers and how these effects are conditioned by financial and institutio [...]

This paper examines the long-term effects of Kenya’s post-independence land settlement policy, focusing on the "Million Acre Scheme," a large-scale redistribution initiat [...]

This paper examines how historical rice-farming traditions shape modern innovation outcomes in China. Using county-level data and a spatial regression discontinuity desig [...]

Electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) significantly influences consumer decision-making because prospective viewers rely on peers’ first-hand opinions to reduce uncertainty and [...]

This paper develops a stylized two-part tariff model to evaluate the fiscal and distributional effects of introducing income-based coinsurance in Egypt’s new Universal He [...]