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 ...

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 ...

The two chapters of this dissertation explore two central topics of the current policy debate.

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 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 ...