Education has become a global business and tertiary education is the biggest contributor. From 1975 to 2011, the number of international students enrolled in tertiary education among the OECD countries grew from 0.8 million ...

Ivory poaching has evolved from a local and regional nuisance to a vexing global threat in need of immediate action. The ivory trade is one of the world's largest illicit activities, funneling money to terrorist groups, ...

This dissertation studies frictions in the lending market that generate overlending and lax lending standards. Chapter 2 develops a quantitative model to study two frictions: 1) limited liability and 2) banks failing to ...

The first chapter shows that during 1999-2012, the Central Bank of Colombia conducted frequent purchases of foreign currency but only occasional and moderate sales. Concurrently, the central bank adjusted its intervention ...

In 2008, the World Health Organization issued a report calling for urgent action on behalf of governments around the world to address differences in health within and between countries, observing that "social injustice is ...

In this paper, I investigate the relationship between academic achievement during the pre-teen years and the subsequent likelihood of experiencing a teen, non-marital birth among females in the Panel Study of Income ...

The first two chapters of this dissertation study five possible drivers of housing dynamics in China using two different methodologies. First, it uses a quantitative model of housing markets in which I input exogenous ...

In the past eight years, the airline market in the United States has gone through a string of bankruptcies, some brought on by the severe economic recession in 2008 and 2009. These financial difficulties provided the impetus ...

It is an explicit policy goal of the United States (U.S.) to promote small business, including in contracting with the federal government. The majority of federal contract dollars are awarded by the Department of Defense ...

Despite the wealth of literature on the effects of the minimum wage on employment in the contiguous U.S., there is a dearth of comparable studies for the island of Puerto Rico. This paper exploits U.S. Census data for the ...