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Evaluation of a Staffing to Workload Tool in a Multispeciality Clinic Setting
(Georgetown University, 2021)
Increasing pressure to manage the cost of healthcare has resulted in shifting care towards ambulatory settings and is driving a focus on cost transparency. There are few nurse staffing to workload models developed for ...
Essays on Fiscal Policy
(Georgetown University, 2021)
The central question when evaluating the effects of government spending on GDP, is whether the fiscal multiplier is greater or lower than 1, or equivalently, the direction and strength of fiscal spillovers. I study the ...
Essays on Firm Dynamics and Labor Markets
(Georgetown University, 2021)
The two chapters of this dissertation explore two central topics of the current policy debate.
Getting Pay Right: Perceptions of Fairness and the Influence of Transparency and Trust
(Georgetown University, 2021)
This project explores employee pay and what it means to get it right through a human values perspective. The project is based on the hypothesis that satisfaction with pay is linked to employee retention, yet satisfaction ...
A Comparison of Hospital Capacities between Single-Payer and Multi-Payer Healthcare Systems among OECD Nations
(Georgetown University, 2021)
The healthcare systems of OECD nations are very diverse and complex. With the COVID-19 pandemic testing these systems to a breaking point not seen in generations, some nations performed better than others in handling the ...
Throwing the Kitchen Sink: Assessing the Impact of the Federal Reserve’s Monetary Policy on US Firms’ Performance during the Covid-19 Pandemic
(Georgetown University, 2021)
The COVID19 Pandemic has led to liquidity constraints in households and firms. To maintain the proper functioning of financial markets, the Federal Reserve has responded by increasing its asset purchases by buying U.S. ...
State Corporate Income Tax Incidence: The Relationship Between Tax Rates and Labor Wages
(Georgetown University, 2021)
A well-developed literature exists on the general issue of corporate tax incidence, but many of those studies involve national or federal tax rates. Fewer articles are written with a focus on wages and corporate tax rates ...
Texas Sun: A Fixed Effects Panel Approach to the Solar Energy-Economic Growth Nexus at the County Level
(Georgetown University, 2021)
Upon review of the empirical energy and renewable energy-economic growth nexus literature, it has been observed that these studies focus on the consumption of electricity generated by all renewables in aggregate at the ...
The Effect of Mexican Imports on US State-Level Unemployment Rates: Is Trade an Opportunity or a Threat?
(Georgetown University, 2021)
The existing literature on the effects of international trade on US labor markets provides mixed evidence. Is it true that trade with Mexico is taking away US jobs? This study seeks to answer that question. Using state-level ...