Essays on gender, development and human capital investment 

Gavalyugova, Dimitria (Date of defense: 2021-07-16)

This dissertation comprises three chapters on the intersection between gender, development and human capital investments. The first chapter explores the impact of the rapid expansion of the Cambodian garment industry on ...

Essays on Growth through creative destruction 

Morales Illán, Maria Fuensanta (Date of defense: 2001-09-28)

Essays on health capital and the efficiency of health care 

García-Altés, Anna (Date of defense: 2008-11-24)

Els canvis tecnològics a la sanitat han transformat l'exercici de la medicina y han portat associades millores en l'esperança i la qualitat de vida relacionada amb la salut impensables fa cent anys. Ara be, l'augment de ...

Essays on heterogeneity and macroeconomic dynamics 

Caracciolo, Giacomo (Date of defense: 2019-10-29)

Limited asset market participation is a well-known stylized fact and a widespread phenomenon even in developed economies. While existing models have already examined the effects of social security and its reforms on ...

Essays on high-dimensional bayesian inference 

Torrens i Dinarès, Miquel (Date of defense: 2022-07-26)

This thesis studies the capabilities of Bayesian estimators in high-dimen-sional generalised linear models, with a particular focus on treatment effect estimation. The first of four chapters provides the necessary ...

Essays on human capital 

Pérez Reynosa, Jessica Helen (Date of defense: 2013-11-20)

El presente trabajo contiene tres ensayos sobre temas relacionados con el capital humano. El Capítulo 1examina empíricamente los determinantes de la descentralización del poder de toma de decisiones en las pequeñas y ...

Essays on human capital and labor market dynamics 

Cairó, Isabel (Date of defense: 2014-06-11)

This thesis investigates the role of human capital in understanding recent developments in the U.S. labor market. Chapter 1 provides novel empirical evidence suggesting that an increasing importance of on-the-job human ...

Essays on Immigration and Political Economy 

Romarri, Alessio (Date of defense: 2021-07-02)

Understanding what drives individuals to vote for parties or individuals who have often used violent rhetoric toward women and minorities and enacted discriminatory laws is critical. At the same time, it is crucial to ...

Essays on Implementation and Auctions 

Azacis, Helmuts (Date of defense: 2006-01-13)

Aparte del primer capítulo que es la introducción, la tesis consiste de tres ensayos. En el segundo capítulo estoy analizando el problema de implementación en el mercado de bienes indivisibles. El modelo trata de asignar ...

Essays on indexability of stochastic sheduling and dynamic allocation problems 

Ruíz Hernández, Diego (Date of defense: 2007-04-13)

In this Thesis, we first deploy Gittins index theory to establish the indexability of inter-alia general families of restless bandits that arise in problems of stochastic scheduling with switching penalties and machine ...

Essays on individual choice 

López, Rafael (Date of defense: 2005-04-15)

This thesis can be divided into two (unrelated) parts. The main part (Chapters 1 and 2) focus on addiction models that entail departures from the classical discounting utility model of Individual Intertemporal Choice: ...

Essays on individual decision behavior 

Navarro Martínez, Daniel (Date of defense: 2009-11-13)

La presente tesis se compone de cuatro capítulos independientes, unidos todos ellos en torno a la motivación común del estudio del comportamiento de decisión individual. El primer capítulo constituye la parte de la tesis ...

Essays on individual decision making 

Yamamoto, Shohei (Date of defense: 2020-06-29)

This thesis consists of three chapters exploring how individuals make decisions (mostly in relation to time), how decisions are influenced by subtle behavioral interventions called nudges, and under which circumstances the ...

Essays on industrial clusters: Smart Specialization Strategy and regional resilience 

Zárate Mirón, Viviana Elizabeth (Date of defense: 2022-07-07)

Three papers integrate the thesis. Each one has its hypotheses and methodology related to the study of industrial cluster. Paper 1: The concept of clusters has been popularized over the last two decades, mainly through ...

Essays On Industrial Dynamics: Spatial And Temporal Dimensions Of Firm Entry 

Liviano Solís, Daniel (Date of defense: 2009-09-10)

DE LA TESIS DOCTORAL<br/>SINOPSIS<br/>Si esta tesis tuviera que ser definida con sólo unos pocos términos, uno de ellos sería<br/>seguramente el de entrepreneurship (espíritu empresarial). Muchas de las contribuciones<br ...

Essays on Industrial Organization 

Liu, Qianshuo (Date of defense: 2022-10-24)

Aquesta tesi consta de tres capítols que aborden diferents qüestions de recerca sobre l’organització industrial inspirades i motivades per qüestions del món real en l’organització de la ciència, el procés d’innovació i les ...

Essays on Industrial Policy, Structural Change, and International Trade 

Hollstein, Till Ferdinand (Date of defense: 2018-09-21)

The purpose of the thesis is to investigate the impact of patterns of trade on the structural composition of an economy. We show that trade affects an economy’s productivity by shifting labor across broad sectors and ...

Essays on industry dynamics and misallocation 

Liu, Shangyu (Date of defense: 2020-10-16)

This thesis explores the linkages among resource allocation, industry dynamics, and asset price bubbles in China. In the first chapter, I break the source of misallocation into four groups: uncertainty, ownership difference, ...

Essays on inequalities in economics of labor and education 

Baertsch, Laurenz (Date of defense: 2023-03-20)

This thesis studies inequalities in the areas of education and labor markets, as well as public policies designed to reduce these inequalities. The first chapter studies whether part-time work options in paid parental ...

Essays on inequality and intergenerational mobility 

Rauh, Christopher (Date of defense: 2014-06-18)

En aquesta tesi s'analitza com les desigualtats econòmiques sorgeixen i persisteixen. La desigualtat ha augmentat en el món desenvolupat durant les últimes dècades. La tesi no només es centra en la desigualtat de resultats ...