Browsing by Author "Andrea Moro"

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    • Essays on firms' entry and growth 
      Tan, Yong (2013-07-03)
      Department: Economics
      Firm-level market entry decisions and post-entry growth are at the core of the industrial organization literature. This dissertation investigates the impact of demand side factors on firm-level market entry, subsequent ...
    • Essays on health economics and health behaviors 
      Tello-Trillo, Daniel Sebastian (2016-04-19)
      Department: Economics
      At least half of personal health spending in the U.S. is related to behavior, lifestyle or other avoidable causes. This dissertation contributes to a recent growing literature which aims to understand what affects health ...
    • Essays On International Trade And Labor Market Outcomes 
      Tempesti, Tommaso (2011-08-03)
      Department: Economics
      The debate over the effects of globalization remains lively. The first chapter of the dissertation makes the point that the use of datasets that contain data on individual workers holds the promise of advancing this debate. ...
    • Essays on Statistical Discrimination and on the Payoff to Publishing in Economics Journals 
      Fadlon, Yariv (2010-08-10)
      Department: Economics
      This dissertation is comprised of three essays. The first essay tests the empirical validity of a statistical discrimination model that incorporates employer's race. I show that if an employer statistically discriminates ...
    • Essays on the Analysis of High-Dimensional Dynamic Games and Data Combination 
      Manzanares, Carlos Andrew (2016-06-24)
      Department: Economics
      Legacy carriers in the U.S. airline industry have a long history of vigorously defending their most important hubs from low cost carrier expansion. Since 2005, the U.S. airline industry has undergone some of the most ...
    • Health and Human Capital Effects of Mandated Dependent Insurance Coverage 
      Gamino, Aaron Michael (2017-07-31)
      Department: Economics
      A large literature studies the effects of young adult insurance eligibility expansions which is a major provision of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). I provide new evidence on the effects of dependent coverage mandates by ...