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The Social and Political Origins of the American Business Corporation, 1787-1861
(2018-05-11)
Why did the business corporation become so common in 19th century America? I argue against prevailing explanations for corporate proliferation that point primarily to the power of capitalist elites or to selection by market ...
What Counts. On the Reception of Statistics in Early Twentieth Century Prose.
(2018-08-31)
The dissertation is a cultural history of statistics in the first half of the twentieth century in the German-speaking world. It examines how statistical models and data have been employed in literature, architecture, ...
Essays in Housing Economics
(2018-05-11)
Political debate around land use in cities often proceeds from the counterintuitive premise that housing development reduces affordability. In my first chapter I show that in Boston, the decision to approve a multifamily ...
Negative Emotional Inhibition in Nonsuicidal Self-Injury
(2018-07-17)
The relationship between nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) and impulsivity is unclear. There is substantial evidence that people who engage in NSSI report impulsive personality traits, or the tendency to behave impulsively ...
Essays in Monetary Policy With Informational Frictions
(2018-05-16)
This dissertation presents three essays addressing the role of informational frictions in monetary policy. In particular, motivated by the observation that central banks around the world are often concerned about their ...
What Is the Role of Social Value on Complex Decision-Making Tasks?
(2018-06-29)
Humans are faced with numerous complex decisions each day, whether that be driving to work or playing a game of chess. Each of these decisions bears significant computational cost, making it near impossible to individually ...
Universal Noise Models in Machine Learning
(2018-06-29)
We examine the problem of universal noise models in machine learning.
Grey Matters: Political-Economic Analyses of Long-Term Care
(2018-08-08)
This dissertation includes two quantitative studies on Medicaid long-term care (LTC) coverage in the United States, and one qualitative study that draws lessons from Germany’s LTC system for Canada.
Chapter one is a political ...
Stochastic Models of Evolutionary Dynamics
(2018-05-11)
Stochasticity is a fundamental component of evolution. Many essential evolutionary phenomena cannot be modeled without it. In developing and analyzing stochastic processes that model the dynamics of evolution, this ...
Neural Network Models for Hate Speech Classification in Tweets
(2018-06-29)
The increase in hate speech on social media in recent years calls for improved detection methods. While traditional techniques rely on manually monitoring hate speech, there is a growing interest in applying machine learning ...