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- The first essay estimates a gasoline price elasticity of traffic flow in Shanghai, China. The Chinese government is seeking effective regulations to reduce traffic congestion, vehicle emissions, and air pollution. One tool that policymakers have to regulate traffic and reduce emissions is the...
- Author:
- Xu, Cheng
- Keyword:
- air pollution, transportation, gasoline price, elasticity, China, and bike-sharing
- GW Unit:
- Economics
- Degree:
- Ph.D.
- Advisor:
- Malik, Arun S.
- Committee Member(s):
- Brooks, Leah F. and Carrillo, Paul
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- Thesis or Dissertation
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- This dissertation consists of three essays on urban and real estate economics. The three essays are related to the standard urban model, elasticity of substitution of structure for land, conventional mortgage interest rates, future house price appreciation rates and foreclosure timeline cost....
- Author:
- Luan, Tian
- Keyword:
- mortgage interest rate, credit risks, foreclosure timeline cost, standard urban model, government-sponsored enterprises, and house price appreciation rate
- GW Unit:
- Economics
- Degree:
- Ph.D.
- Advisor:
- Yezer, Anthony M
- Committee Member(s):
- Williams, Ben and Carrillo, Paul
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- Thesis or Dissertation
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- This dissertation consists of three essays on regional economics that deal with earningsinequality in cities, interstate migration and spatial competition in the retail market. Chapter1 provides a theoretical framework to analyze the observation of rising earnings inequalitywith city size. Many...
- Author:
- Wu, Haixiao
- Keyword:
- earnings inequality, spatial competition, housing cost, job searching, on-line shopping, and interstate migration
- GW Unit:
- Economics
- Degree:
- Ph.D.
- Advisor:
- Yezer, Anthony M.
- Committee Member(s):
- Joshi, Sumit and Carrillo, Paul
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- Thesis or Dissertation
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- The main objective of this dissertation is to investigate the relationship between low skilled migrants who specialize in household production and Kuwaiti female labor force participation in a country with a special visa program, exploring how this relationship differs with family structure,...
- Author:
- AlHumaidan, Lama
- Keyword:
- low skilled, immigrants, female labor, domestic helpers, and Kuwait
- GW Unit:
- Economics
- Degree:
- Ph.D.
- Advisor:
- Parsons, Donald O
- Committee Member(s):
- Williams, Benjamin and Carrillo, Paul
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- Thesis or Dissertation
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- This dissertation contains three essays which explore pathways through which weather can impact economic activity and social outcomes. The first essay attempts to fill a gap in a growing literature examining the global economic implications of weather shocks. Past research has found significant,...
- Author:
- Russ, Jason
- Keyword:
- Climate Change, Land Use, Environmental Economics, Weather, Human Capital, and Agricultural Economics
- GW Unit:
- Economics
- Degree:
- Ph.D.
- Advisor:
- Malik, Arun S
- Committee Member(s):
- Fishman, Ram and Carrillo, Paul
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- Thesis or Dissertation
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- There is a significant theoretical literature about the nature of equilibrium in consumer credit markets. The prevailing conclusion of these models is that a pooling equilibrium across borrower risk types is unlikely to be a market equilibrium. Instead, borrowers will be segregated and...
- Author:
- Yu, Pingkang
- Keyword:
- Consumer Credit, Market Structure, Mortgage, Pooling Equilibrium, Screening Cost, and Costly Screening
- GW Unit:
- Economics
- Degree:
- Ph.D.
- Advisor:
- Yezer, Anthony M
- Committee Member(s):
- Boulier, Bryan, Joshi, Sumit, and Carrillo, Paul
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- Thesis or Dissertation
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- Access to markets is central to the current thinking on poverty alleviation and economic development. However, there is surprisingly little systematic empirical evidence that tries to isolate the effects of access to local and global markets on income and consumption, especially at the household...
- Author:
- Hou, Zhaoyang
- Keyword:
- Domestic Market, International Market, consumption, Income, farm and non-farm, Household Welfare, China, and Market Access
- GW Unit:
- Economics
- Degree:
- Ph.D.
- Advisor:
- Emran, M. Shahe and Smith, Stephen C.
- Committee Member(s):
- Boulier, Bryan, Foster, James, de Brauw, Alan, and Carrillo, Paul
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- Thesis or Dissertation
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- This dissertation consists of two essays on household welfare in rural China as it has evolved during the post-reform era. The first essay presents evidence on intergenerational educational and occupational mobility in Rural China from 1988 to 2002 using data from two rounds of the Chinese...
- Author:
- Sun, Yan
- Keyword:
- inequality, education, labor, Intergeneraltional mobility, rural China, and welfare
- GW Unit:
- Economics
- Degree:
- Ph.D.
- Advisor:
- Boulier, Bryan and Emran, Shahe M
- Committee Member(s):
- Smith, Stephen C, Jedwab, Remi, Al Mamun, Arif, and Carrillo, Paul
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- Thesis or Dissertation
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- This dissertation addresses the question of strategic behavior with respect to unsecured credit, in the presence of vast asymmetry of information between lender and borrower. The theoretical exercise presented below differs from the existing literature on precautionary savings models in a number...
- Author:
- Bonca, Bogdan Lucian
- Keyword:
- credit score, asymmetry of information, strategic default, and health shocks
- GW Unit:
- Economics
- Degree:
- Ph.D.
- Advisor:
- Pelzman, Joseph
- Committee Member(s):
- Yezer, Anthony, Joshi, Sumit, Hwang, Min, and Carrillo, Paul
- Resource Type:
- Thesis or Dissertation
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- This dissertation introduces the concept of human recognition and examines its role in economic development. Human recognition is defined as the acknowledgement provided to an individual by other individuals, groups, or organizations that he is of inherent value with intrinsic qualities in common...
- Author:
- Castleman, Joshua Anton
- Keyword:
- empowerment, poverty, health, human recognition, objectification, and economic development
- GW Unit:
- Economics
- Degree:
- Ph.D.
- Advisor:
- Smith, Stephen C
- Committee Member(s):
- Lambright, Gina, Joshi, Sumit, Carrillo, Paul, and Emran, M. Shahe
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- Thesis or Dissertation
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- Local returns to housing investment across the U.S. cities are estimated and applied to explain the stockholding puzzle, i.e. the tendency for US homeowners to hold only housing and risk free assets in their portfolios. Several empirical problems exist in the previous studies: first, rental...
- Author:
- Feng, Guoliang
- Keyword:
- household portfolio, real estate finance, and urban economics
- GW Unit:
- Economics
- Degree:
- Ph.D.
- Advisor:
- Yezer, Anthony Marvin
- Committee Member(s):
- Bradley, Michael, Fratantoni, Michael, Hwang, Min, Carrillo, Paul, and Vonortas, Nicholas
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- Thesis or Dissertation
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- Urban producer theory introduces a production function which incorporates congestion in production with inputs possessing a quality component that influences productivity. These features yield cost-minimizing behavior in which firms respond to higher space rent by increasing the quality of the...
- Author:
- Waldon, Tracy Charles
- Keyword:
- input quality, congestion, urban labor demand, intra-metropolitan sorting, urban wage gradient, and office rent
- GW Unit:
- Economics
- Degree:
- Ph.D.
- Advisor:
- Yezer, Anthony M
- Committee Member(s):
- Parsons, Donald O, Phillips, Robert, Hwang, Min, and Carrillo, Paul
- Resource Type:
- Thesis or Dissertation
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- This dissertation consists of three essays on urban economics. The three essays are related to urban spatial structure change, energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and housing redevelopment. Chapter 1 answers the question: Does the classic Standard Urban Model still describe the growth...
- Author:
- Zhao, Weihua
- Keyword:
- Energy Consumption, Telework, Housing Redevelopment, Standard Urban Model, Minimum Lot Size Zoning, and Urban Spatial Structure
- GW Unit:
- Economics
- Degree:
- Ph.D.
- Advisor:
- Yezer, Anthony Marvin
- Committee Member(s):
- Jedwab, Remi, Steinbucks, Jevgenijs, Carrillo, Paul, and Joshi, Sumit
- Resource Type:
- Thesis or Dissertation
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- This dissertation demonstrates that the standard urban model (SUM) has important, previously unknown, and rather counterintuitive predictions about the determinants of housing consumption in cities. For example, the SUM predicts that, as higher wages in the CBD prompt city growth, the housing...
- Author:
- Liu, Yishen
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- GW Unit:
- Economics
- Degree:
- Ph.D.
- Advisor:
- Yezer, Anthony M.
- Committee Member(s):
- Selod, Harris, Boulier, Bryan, Jedwab, Remi, and Carrillo, Paul
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- Thesis or Dissertation
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- Studies of gentrification in urban economics have concluded that age of housing is the main economic variable of interest. Is this truly the case? Gentrification, the process by which relatively higher income households move into a neighborhood and upgrade the housing stock has three main...
- Author:
- Powell, Sherida Stacey-Ann
- Keyword:
- historic districts, Washington, gentrification, hedonic model, housing age, real options, and D.C.
- GW Unit:
- Economics
- Degree:
- Ph.D.
- Advisor:
- Yezer, Anthony
- Committee Member(s):
- Parsons, Donald and Carrillo, Paul
- Resource Type:
- Thesis or Dissertation
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- Description:
- This dissertation explores three areas related to highway investment and answers three key questions: What effect does local and national political representation have on additions to highway capacity? What is the relationship between highway capacity and productivity at the county level? Does...
- Author:
- Black, Alison Eileen Premo
- Keyword:
- Housing Supply and Highways
- GW Unit:
- Economics
- Degree:
- Ph.D.
- Advisor:
- Yezer, Anthony Marvin
- Committee Member(s):
- Watson, Harry, Joutz, Frederic L, Molloy, Raven, and Carrillo, Paul
- Resource Type:
- Thesis or Dissertation