The opioid epidemic in the United States has been associated with an increase in rates of hepatitis B and C infection across the country. This is due to an increase in the use of intravenous drug injection which allows the ...

In 2019, the United States government spent over $588 million to build partner capacity (BPC) in Ukraine. Within the U.S. government, departments and agencies such as the United States Agency for International Development ...

In this dissertation, I examine the impact of recent immigration to Germany on various outcomes. I explore the often-overlooked benefits migrants can bring to host countries, as well as policies which may facilitate ...

The 1918 Influenza Pandemic narrative is the conduit through which popular and academic scholarship understand this pandemic – unchanged since it was crafted by historians in the 1970s. However, the 1918 pandemic was a ...

This work discusses selected prison writings in the Arab world from the second half of the last century to the present. Political prison writing discussed in this dissertation can be read against, and in conjuncture with, ...

In this dissertation, I study three topics ranging from political economics to the economics of crime. In the first chapter, "Using Rain for Electoral Gain: Evidence from FEMA's Public Assistance Program", I study distortions ...

In this thesis, I outline how the framework of design justice, communicated in the world by Design Justice Network (DJN) members, doesn’t meet the material needs of designers and is insufficient in articulating a relationship ...

In this dissertation, I investigate various empirical aspects of the theory of preferences and decision. A classical result in revealed preference shows that when one observes a subject's choice on a rich enough collection ...

I study the effect of higher education on lifecycle earnings and focus on three ways in which education may help drive earnings: the effect of higher education on one’s skills, the effect on one’s ability to accumulate new ...

The 11th/17th-century Hijazi scholar Ibn Maʿṣūm al-Madanī (d. 1120/1709) wrote a significant later post-classical/pre-modern biographical anthology, Sulāfat al-ʿaṣr fī maḥāsin al-shuʿarāʾ bi-kulli miṣr (Pressing of the ...