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Spring 2023
This thesis has five chapters. Chapter 1 introduces the thesis. Chapter 2 uses a search and matching model that incorporates labour demand, labour supply, labour market efficiency, search effort and nonemployment duration dependence of job-finding rates to examine the leading cause(s) of a rise...
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Fall 2023
This dissertation consists of three essays spanning various fields, including energy economics, labor economics, development economics, and regulation. As many jurisdictions worldwide shift towards low-carbon energy sources, energy producers, consumers, and policymakers face new challenges. The...
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Spring 2023
Sustainable management of natural resources such as fish is important as millions of people rely on such resources for food, source of income, and well-being. It is increasingly challenging, however, for institutions and stakeholders to induce a sustainable exploitation of such resources due to...
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We are not all the same: Differentials in Diet Quality and Food Consumption across Canadian Immigrant and Domestic Resident Population
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Background: The association between diet and immigration is multidimensional; in addition, it varies considerably, depending on the nutrient or food component in question and more importantly, the ethnicities of immigrants to Canada. Current literature identifies dietary patterns in the general...
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Institutions and Economic Growth: How Institutional Change Triggers Divergence, Convergence, and Non-Zero Sums
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The thesis explores the effect of institutional change on economic output. Chapters 1 and 2 are empirical and examine historical events. Chapter 1 makes the case that the Mongol Empire played a prominent role in the Industrial Revolution emerging in Western Europe. Western Europe developed...
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Impact of an employment guarantee program on child health and women's reproductive behaviours in rural India
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In this dissertation, I examine the impact of the world's largest employment guarantee program on child health and women's reproductive behaviours in rural India. The program, popularly known as National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) was introduced in India in 2005. I utilize two...
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Fall 2022
This dissertation consists of three essays in the field of monetary and financial economics. Specifically, we use high-frequency financial data to study monetary policies with a focus on the information effect, namely, that some of the interest rate movements around central bank announcements are...
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Fall 2021
International coal prices strongly impact the local labor markets in coal mining regions of India. In this thesis, I make use of three distinguished and unique individual level data sets from India to examine the effects of coal mining on the socio-economic outcomes for individuals and firms in...
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Fall 2020
The last two decades have witnessed a sharp increase in patent applications filed abroad by domestic innovators. Understanding how firms decide where to patent helps policymakers design policies to encourage domestic innovators to patent abroad or attract foreign innovators to patent in the...
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Essays in Development Economics: The Health and Economic Impact of the Farm-gate Cocoa Price Boom in Ghana
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This thesis explores the impact of Ghana’s farm-gate cocoa price shocks on welfare. It comprises of two essays. The first essay examines the impact of a farm-gate cocoa price boom on child health, where the price boom directly affects household incomes and indirectly affect the investments in...